Duane HicksPeggy Revell To open Friday at noon Couchiching First Nation’s plan to erect a toll booth on Highway #11 just west of the Noden Causeway is still a go for this Friday at noon. For now, the band was to begin a traffic slowdown today (Wednesday), where information will […]
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Dan Falloon The Ministry of Natural Resources is expecting another good year of walleye fishing in 2010. “Walleye catch rates should remain high and similar to last year,” noted Darryl McLeod, an area biologist with the MNR here. “Anglers can expect to see exceptional numbers of large fish protected by […]
Dan Falloon Donovan Taylor and Levi Rittau will be making their way to Laurentian University in Sudbury this summer. The two Fort Frances Aquanauts swimmers won’t be taking any classes there, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be learning. Taylor, 15, and Rittau, 13, were named to the Northwestern Ontario […]
Duane Hicks Having the day off school Monday, Heidi Putzer helped stock the shelves of the non-fiction section at the new Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre. She is among the 100-plus volunteers who signed up to help make the move from the old library on Chruch Street to the […]
Duane Hicks Alyssa Chiasson, front, Kaitlyn Chiasson, Mikayla Chiasson, and their uncle, John Storm, climbed the stairs of the relocated and refurbished lookout tower here Saturday. The tower, “Hallett,” and Sorting Gap Marina all opened for the season on Friday, and so far have been quite popular.
Bryce Forbes There was a long lineup at the 40th-annual Manitou fish fry on Friday afternoon at the new pow-wow grounds at Rainy River First Nations. Between 400 and 500 people turned out for the ever-popular event.
Dan Falloon Muskie forward Courtney Roach crashed the Hanover (Winnipeg) net in tournament action here Friday afternoon. Roach later tallied but the Muskies lost the round-robin game 4-2. Fort High exacted revenge on the Hype on Saturday afternoon, however, exploding for a 5-3 win to capture third place in the […]
It appears the Couchiching band council has no intention of backing down from its plan to install a toll booth on Highway #11 just west of the Noden Causeway, meeting last night to set the fee schedule. The federal government certainly hasn’t done much, if anything, to defuse the situation […]
Dear Mike: I just want to say thank you to the individual who finds it necessary to repeatedly use his jake brakes on Highway 613N, particularly at 10 p.m. on a Sunday night while my five-year-old was sleeping. (Signed), Rosanne Farmer Devlin, Ont.
It is with great sadness that the family of Barbara Dorothy Easton (nee Henderson) announces her passing on Friday, May 14, 2010. Barb was born Jan. 18, 1920 to Andrew and Elizabeth Henderson of Rainy River, Ont. She and her husband, Jack, were married in 1943 in Rainy River, and […]
Stephanie “Stella” Stamarski, of International Falls, Mn., passed away Saturday, May 8, 2010 at Wendigo Pines Memory Care in Grand Rapids, Mn. as a result of Alzheimer’s Disease. Stephanie Pearl Michaluk was born Jan. 21, 1926 at Fort Frances, Ont. to John and Annie (Yuskow) Michaluk. She grew up and […]
The family of Richard “Dick” Anthony Collett, of 316 Second St. E., Fort Frances, Ont., sadly announce his sudden passing on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at the age of 90. Dick was born March 2, 1920 in Winnipeg, Man. to the late George and Faith Collett. When he was two […]
