Unlike many people, I’ve never minded getting older. I credit two things from my childhood for this mindset. First, I had a wonderful grandmother. And from early on, my goal was to be just like her some day. It seemed to me that she had a perfect life! But mostly, […]
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By Dan Falloon, sports reporter The Olympics may be over, but Canadians still seem keen to “Own the Podium.” That much-maligned funding program, at least during the first week of last month’s Winter Games, has now helped to produce a number of world champions in addition to a record number […]
?Thankfully, catch-and-release is a campaign most anglers have embraced and practice these days. We have so many great fishing opportunities in Sunset Country due to good management practices by the Ministry of Natural Resources and from people taking the responsibility to release big fish and not go home with their […]
Duane Hicks Due to the very dry conditions this spring, the Fort Frances Fire & Rescue Service and all other municipal fire departments in Rainy River District have declared a ban on all open-air burning until conditions improve. Fort Frances Fire Chief Gerry Armstrong, who also is the district fire […]
A less-known effect of the so-called “great recession” that began last year is the major shift in Canadian consumers’ buying habits. They have switched some of their purchases from brand-name items to private-label goods. Consumer goods once were believed to be as recession-proof as any industry can be. Shoppers might […]
Dan Falloon The Borderland Soccer Association is staring at a number of issues heading into the upcoming season, and league president Tristan Hutton is encouraging members to pitch solutions. At the forefront is a referee shortage which Hutton feels, if unaddressed, could grind the men’s and women’s leagues to a […]
Staff A Five-Mile Dock Road residence was destroyed in an early-morning fire yesterday. “Nobody was in the house at the time, it was unoccupied, so we had a full force of 12 of our firefighters and three of our fire trucks go and respond,” noted Couchiching deputy fire chief Christine […]
the OPP Members of the Fort Frances OPP detachment, along with members of the Northwest Region Crime Unit and Community Drug Action Team, seized a substantial amount of Oxycontin pills from a local man last Tuesday (March 23). As a result of the investigation, police seized 200 80 mg Oxycontin […]
Duane Hicks Charred remains are all that’s left of a Five-Mile Dock Road residence that was consumed by fire early yesterday morning.
Dan Falloon Mark Lussier of the Rendez-Vous went up for a shot against Boston Pizza in the championship game of the local Monday night men’s league at Fort High. Lussier scored 29 points but the Vous were denied a third-straight title as BP emerged 66-59 in overtime. Taggs beat the […]
Bernard Cecil Paul Cousineau, 71, of 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away peacefully with his family at his side on Friday, March 26, 2010 at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances. Bernard was born April 29, 1938 at O’Donnell’s Hospital in Fort Frances to the late William D. […]
Mildred Brockie passed away peacefully at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances, Ont. on Friday, March 26, 2010. Mildred was born in Fort Frances on Sept. 23, 1916, the daughter of Bruce and Belle Lloyd, and sister to Bill Lloyd. She attended local schools, beginning with kindergarten, held in the […]
