Zoey Duncan For the fourth time this year, the Lions Millennium Park fountain has been flooded with suds. This time, however, due to the impending long weekend, there isn’t time to properly clean it so it will be shut down until Tuesday. “We’ve got to drain it, we’ve got to […]
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the OPP Sioux Lookout OPP officers were dispatched to a report of several bears in a residential area of Sioux Lookout earlier today. One of the bears was reported to have a plastic container on its head. Two constables attended the area and located a young bear cub in distress […]
Staff A Restricted Fire Zone order has been lifted in the Northwest Region. The RFZ had been in effect in an area bounded by the CNR rail line, just north of Opasquia Provincial Park, and west of Wabakimi Provincial Park to the Manitoba border. The order was in place to […]
Staff Three area golf courses are eligible to be named among the top 100 courses in the province as part of an online poll being done by Ontario Golf Magazine. The poll, which is done every two years, asks participants to choose their 10 favourite courses in the entire province. […]
Staff Spaces are still available in a free mining seminar being offered next week by Rainy River Resources, a junior exploration company currently working at a project site north of Barwick. Slated for Aug. 3-5 at Confederation College campus in Fort Frances, the seminar is aimed at adults and youths […]
Staff The second day at the 2011 Canadian Age Group Championships in Montreal went much like the first one for Fort Frances Aquanaut Donovan Taylor as he failed to qualify for the final in the 400m I.M. event yesterday. The 17-year old Taylor, competing in the 17-18 male age category, […]
the CBSA The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) reminds travellers to plan their border crossing to avoid delays during the upcoming Civic Holiday weekend. In anticipation of higher traffic volumes, and limits to the volume of traffic that can be processed at some ports of entry this weekend, travellers are […]
Staff A trio of district groups this week received funding from the federal government to keep their respective entertainment series going. The local “Tour de Fort” concert series got $8,000 from the Canada Arts Presentation Fund while “Kids and Co.,” a family performing artists series here, landed $6,000. The Atikokan […]
Zoey Duncan Smashed toilets, widespread trash, and human waste on the walls of public washrooms all are chipping away at taxpayer funds and tarnishing the town’s image, said Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown. “All the parks and greenspace areas that we have, we have all these animal-proof containers and […]
the MNR Ontario has begun helping almost 400 residents return to their homes in Eabametoong/Fort Hope and Sandy Lake, using five planes with 13 flights. About 100 Sandy Lake residents returning then will be preparing the community to welcome the remainder of their residents over the next few days. Two […]
Lisa Cousineau Summer finally has begun for 12 children who attend St. Michael’s School here in Fort Frances. These children, heading into Grade 3 this fall, were at school for the first two weeks of July as part of a pilot project spearheaded by the Ministry of Education. The ministry […]
Staff Fort Frances Aquanaut Donovan Taylor failed to qualify for the finals in his first two events yesterday at the 2011 Canadian Age Group Championships in Montreal. Taylor, 17, competing in the 17-18 male age category, placed 46th in the 100m butterfly heats with a time of 1:01.38. He then […]
