Hoop dancer, Garnett Comegan demonstrated his skills to students from local schools who gathered in the Robert Moore gymnasium Wednesday for their 1st Annual Pow Wow. The First Nation and Metis Youth Council organized the event, which also featured the Golden Eagle Drummers from Couchiching First Nation and a lunch […]
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While spring may bring to mind thoughts of milder temperatures, sunshine, and blooming flowers, the Town of Fort Frances is preparing for a less pleasant yet inevitable aspect of it—lots of water. “Right now, we’re looking at how to run our sanitary sewer in an extreme flooding condition,” Operations and […]
The Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team came close to winning a few sets but ultimately finished with three losses on the first day of the all-Ontario championship in Dryden. Facing Embrun in their third and final match of the day, the black-and-gold lost the first set by a narrow 25-23 […]
Just moments after missing a berth to the all-Ontarios later this month in Ottawa, the Muskie girls’ curling rink shook off the disappointment and went back on the ice here yesterday afternoon to earn the NWOSSAA silver medal. The black-and-gold wound up tied for second place at 3-2 after losing […]
Four local junior squash players are travelling to Barrie to represent Northwestern Ontario at the Ontario Winter Games from March 10-12. Anniss Seid, 12, Cole Derksen, 17, Kimika Alexander, 11, and Steve Boileau, 16, all have practising long and hard to prepare for the big event. If there’s one thing […]
The 24th Nestor Falls Winter Carnival went off without a hitch last weekend, with lots of activities, tons of prizes, and beautiful weather. “It went really well,” said Howard Dodd, who worked on promotions for the carnival. “I think the good weather really helped us out, too. The fishing tournament […]
According to a document from the North West Local Health Integration Networks (LHIN), one of its core functions is developing and carrying out community engagement strategies. After reviewing the proposed Community Engagement Strategy at Monday night’s regular meeting, Emo council agreed with the contents of the package but seemed skeptical […]
Town council will vote this coming Monday (March 13) to pass a bylaw to adopt a new user fee schedule for the 2006 budget, but the public is welcome to give its input on the proposed hikes prior to then. Fort Frances CAO Mark McCaig said the revised schedule doesn’t […]
Spring is on its way, and with it area residents tend to get thoughts of returning to “Life at the Lake.” With that in mind, that’s the theme of the local Chamber of Commerce’s annual home and leisure show coming up April 28-29 at the Memorial Sports Centre. And organizers […]
With the 2006 Insect Pest Management Program for the Fort Frances, Dryden, and Kenora districts now completed and approved, the Ministry of Natural Resources has moved into its second stage of managing the jack pine budworm infestation: a 30-day public review period. “It’s an open review period of the final […]
Last night’s third-and-deciding game of the NorWOSSA boys’ hockey final here certainly taught Muskie fans to expect the unexpected. The Kenora Broncos left the Ice for Kids Arena with gold medals around their necks after upsetting the first-place Muskies 3-0—taking the series 2-1 with both wins coming on Fort High’s […]
While it will be sometime yet before colourful blooms appear in Fort Frances, the local Chamber of Commerce already has flowers on the brain as it gears up for its annual beautification program. Office manager Dawn Booth said Tuesday that the Chamber will be hanging 60 baskets in May or […]
