Lucas Punkari Though unable to retain the overall banner, a contingent of Fort Frances bowlers still had a successful weekend at the annual Sunset Country five-pin aggregate event hosted by Plaza Lanes. Having snapped a 17-year drought last year in Atikokan, the locals were hoping to use home-lane advantage in […]
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Lucas Punkari With another curling season about to wrap up, the annual men’s bonspiel goes this weekend at the local club. The field was sitting at 16 teams as of last Friday morning but club manager Rick Grenda is hoping to draw more than two dozen for the weekend. That […]
Lucas Punkari The recent mild spell has been a pleasant sight for many people looking forward to summer, but there might not be anyone more excited to see the snow starting to melt than Borderland Racing Association promoter Anthony Leek. Leek has been keeping an eye on the recent weather […]
Lucas Punkari Only a scant two points separated the Muskie badminton pair of Robert Stevens and Spencer Pearce from earning a berth at last year’s OFSAA championship. So with a new season set to get underway tomorrow with exhibition play at Fort High, the Grade 12 tandem are setting their […]
Duane Hicks While town council is not done yet with the 2011 budget, it has been making cuts and other decisions to try and minimize a potential tax hike, which currently sitsat 3.9 percent for the residential class. For example, council agreed at its budget meeting Monday to hold the […]
Peggy Revell A new meat processing plant in Emo is aiming to put local beef on store shelves and menus across the district. Located at 56 Front St. in Emo (the old post office), Rainy River Meats Inc. is being established due to the demand for increased processing capacity to […]
Lucas Punkari They won the season series by an 8-4 margin. And after two games of their best-of-seven semi-final showdown, the Dryden Ice Dogs are continuing their dominance over the Fort Frances Lakers. Heading into Game 3 last night at the Memorial Arena in Dryden, the Ice Dogs held a […]
Peggy Revell Canada edged closer towards a federal election yesterday as all three opposition parties voiced their rejection of the Conservatives’ budget. “This budget has nothing in it for Northern Ontario. It’s a very, very disappointing budget,” said Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP John Rafferty, stating that if the budget remains […]
Heather Latter The Ontario Strongman Series is coming to town as part of the 2011 Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce Home and Leisure Show being held at the Memorial Sports Centre next month. “This will be the first ‘Strongman’ competition ever held in the Rainy River District and will feature […]
Duane Hicks The 2011 budget approved by the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board last week will see Fort Frances paying $115,000 more to the DSSAB than it did last year, and mayor and council still are asking where its savings from provincially-uploaded programs have gone. As previously reported, […]
Staff For the ninth-straight year, the Town of Fort Frances will be getting money from the Moffat Family Fund to hand out to local groups and service clubs with the aim of helping youths and families. Fort Frances once again is eligible for $37,500 in funds to be redistributed to […]
Peggy Revell Only part of the savings from uploading the Ontario Drug Benefit Program will be passed along to municipalities after the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board approved its 2011-12 budget last Thursday night. This year, DSSAB saw its budget fall from $20,479,372 to $15,463,816—a reduction of $5,015,556, […]
