Just in time for those still shopping for gifts, the Fort Frances Museum is staging a “Christmas Artisans Show” in the cafeteria of Fort Frances High School this Sunday (Dec. 17) from 2-9 p.m. Museum curator Pam Hawley said yesterday numerous local artists have been lined up to either sell […]

Local mill union members tentatively are slated to vote Jan. 9 on an agreement that will see them offer labour stability to the mill in order to get a bio-mass boiler up and running here. While he couldn’t reveal any details of the agreement, Brian Short, Grand Lodge representative for […]

SHEPPARD–Born to Mike and Melanie, nee Allan, of Emo, Ontario, a girl, Jaycee Lee, weighing 6 lbs. 3 oz. on December 3, 2006 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.

WHITECROW–Born to Billy Whitecrow and Kayla Smith, of Fort Frances, Ont., a boy, Carson James, weighing 7 lbs. 15 oz. on December 3, 2006 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.

MEDICINE-TOM–Born to Chris Medicine and Morning Star Tom, a girl, Kayomi Mekhi, weighing 9 lbs. 10 oz. on December 6, 2006 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.

HOLBORN–Born to Kristina Olson and Trevor Holborn, of Fort Frances, Ont, a boy, Jonathon Douglas, weighing 6 lbs. 15 oz. on December 6, 2006 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.

SCOTT– Born to Jade Whitefield and Ian Scott, of Fort Frances, Ont., a boy, Jackson Alexander Roy, weighing 7lbs. 15oz. , on December 7, 2006 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.

I, like millions of people across North America, have a set routine each and every Sunday from September through to the end of January. It goes something like this: wake up, eat breakfast, and watch every National Football League game I can from noon until around 11 p.m. What can […]

Most of the time, my husband is a willing and helping hand in our little life. But there are those times when I’d like to send him with a one-way ticket on a rocket to the moon. Once there, he could work on his upcoming book “The Wife Manual”—an instruction […]

While I am completely at home on or around Rainy Lake, I saw something there last Saturday evening that’s bothered me ever since! There were tire tracks across the lake near our cabins where, at this early date, there should not have been! Because the ice still could be dangerously […]

Fortunately, I’ve had the best of three worlds in my short lifetime. I grew up on a farm on Route 12 in upstate New York. A farm full of trees and flowers and lilac bushes. A farm that had a maple woods, a large pond, and lots of wonderful places […]

I was reminded Monday morning, as I awoke to the sounds of my alarm radio, that only two weeks remain to Christmas. I guess that in the work of renovating our home, the excitement of Christmas was overshadowed by the panic of worrying about being able to restore the house […]