Duane Hicks Residents face only a 1.1% jump Tax bills indicating a slight tax hike for all property classes will be mailed out shortly after town council approved the 2009 budget Monday night. Several members of council noted how pleased they were that what started out as a daunting budget […]
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Peggy Revell He’s more familiar with flying the skies as a pilot for Air Canada, but it was by bicycle that Burlington, Ont. native Glen Baxby arrived in Fort Frances on a rainy Monday afternoon—just one stop on his quest to cycle across the country to raise awareness and money […]
Duane Hicks Work on Phase II of the Heritage Tourism Project has begun, with the aim to see Fort Frances sporting an enhanced waterfront before the end of November. Last week, crews with Tom Jones Construction put up fencing on either side of the Sorting Gap Marina—the future waterfront sites […]
Peggy Revell He’s greeted students with a smile every school morning for the past 45 years, and last week Sonny Ferris was recognized with the Rainy River District School Board’s “School Bus Driver of the Year” award. “It’s difficult to pick a bus driver of the year,” Donna Lee, the […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie girls’ soccer team was under-manned and over-matched at the ‘AA’ all-Ontarios in Kenora last week—dropping all three of their games in failing to advance out of round-robin play. The squad closed out the tournament on a positive note—holding top-ranked St. Joseph’s to three goals in a […]
Mitch Calvert Fort Frances native Steve Arpin finished in 11th-place on Saturday at the Pocono 200 in Long Pond, Penn.—his latest race on the ARCA RE/MAX Series. Arpin had the seventh-fastest time in practice, but the bulk of qualifying was rained out Friday so Arpin started 14th based on owners’ […]
Mitch Calvert There’s always next year. Josh Strain, a Grade 11 student at Fort High, bowed out of the OFSAA senior boys’ high jump competition in Toronto on Friday with a 16th-place showing. Strain failed to clear 1.80 metres—a height he made in taking gold at the NWOSSAA championships last […]
Mitch Calvert Paul Noonan was recognized last week for his 15 years of volunteer coaching with the Muskie boys’ basketball program by the Rainy River District School Board. “His leadership has contributed towards the successful achievement of numerous awards, NorWOSSA championships, and, in [2001], he took the Muskie team to […]
Peggy Revell A new project that will study the sturgeon population of Quetico Provincial Park is a go thanks to recently-announced provincial funding aimed at protecting “species at risk.” The funding was granted to the Quetico Foundation as part of the Ministry of Natural Resource’s “Species at Risk Stewardship Fund,” […]
Peggy Revell Construction to dismantle the lookout tower at Pither’s Point has begun as Tom Jones Construction begins the relocation of both the tower and Hallett to near the Sorting Gap Marina. Their future homes already have been marked off with fencing.
Peggy Revell Nancy Daley, who sits as treasurer on the board of the local legal aid clinic—gave a quick speech to those who attended an open house last week to mark the creation of the Northwest Community Legal Clinic, following the amalgamation of the Rainy River District Community Legal Clinic […]
Elisabeth Heslop Gleaming wood, pristine green grass, and a deep blue sky marked the second-last day of construction on the Rainy River First Nations’ new pow-wow grounds on Friday. Located just north of the junction of Highway 11 and 71, the eight-month project soon will be put to good use […]
