Duane Hicks With town council having voted down the proposed contract for the new Fort Frances Public Library and Technology Centre on Monday night, library board members are left questioning if the project will ever happen at all. Library board chair Joyce Cunningham said Monday evening after the meeting she […]
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Duane Hicks The town is getting ready to begin the $5.4-million Portage Avenue, Nelson Street, and Victoria Avenue truck route upgrade next month, which will see the town improve the roads, as well as sewer and water, in relation to AbitibiBowater’s biomass boiler project. Council approved Bay City Contractors of […]
Duane Hicks Town council deferred any decision on the proposed relocation and refurbishment of the Hallett and lookout tower pending further costing information from Tom Jones Construction. Community Services manager George Bell informed council he was hoping to have negotiated amounts for the tender ready for council at Monday’s meeting, […]
Staff Town council referred a financial request from the Rainy River Future Development Corp.—to help pay to put up new gateway banners on the Lap building—to the Administration and Finance executive committee for its recommendation at Monday night’s meeting. In a letter from RRFDC chair Russ Fortier, he noted that […]
Peggy Revell Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) will be installed in 16 schools across the district in the hope of saving the lives of students, staff, and community members in emergencies. The AEDs—meant to be used alongside CPR in the case of cardiac arrest—have been made possible through funding from the […]
Mitch Calvert For Emo native Dennis Ogilvie, running is more than a just a hobby, it’s a passion. The 23-year-old personal trainer, certified through the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology after attending Niagara College, is putting his skills to use by running six 5K runs this summer to raise money […]
Mitch Calvert Confidence in the Muskie camp is high going into the NorWOSSA badminton finals today in Dryden thanks, in large part, to the badminton skill development club that runs all winter long here. Manami and Lawrence Alexander felt the high school badminton season was too short to make a […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie boys’ hockey team wrapped up another season with a dinner and awards presentation last week at the Adventure Inn. A banquet hall full of family, friends, and representatives of the Blueline Club gathered to honour a season that started slow back in November but ended with […]
Duane Hicks Falls, substance abuse, motor vehicle safety, and violence have been identified as the top injury prevention priorities for the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition over the next three-five years. The prioritization of injury prevention initiatives and subsequent follow-ups are the result of the safety coalition’s strategic planning session […]
Duane Hicks While district residents are encouraged to take all the medications they have cleaned out of their medicine cabinet back to their local pharmacy for safe and free disposal year round, this Friday (April 17) is the last day they do as part of the local seniors’ coalition’s fourth-annual […]
Peggy Revell Some schools in the district just got a little bit “smarter” as two First Nation communities have stepped forward with funding for more SMART board technology. Rainy River First Nations will providing funding of $10,398.72 for new SMART boards at Donald Young School in Emo, as well as […]
Staff Borderland received a record amount of snowfall this past winter but that alone will not result in flood conditions on Rainy Lake and Namakan, according to the International Rainy Lake Board of Control and the International Rainy River Water Pollution Board. “While the potential for significant snowmelt run-off is […]
