Anticipating another busy year ahead promoting Fort Frances and its business community, the local Chamber of Commerce is requesting the town increase its fee-for-service in the 2006 municipal budget from $6,000 to $7,500. “2005 saw marketing activities increase in several key areas,” Chamber president Gary Rogozinski said as he made […]
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With the town’s bylaw department having responded to roughly 85 bear reports over the past four weeks, it’s clear Fort Frances has seen a lot of bruin activity lately. But whether the town should continue to trap and release them, or simply shoot them, was a topic brought forward to […]
It’s believed that luck is the intersection between preparation and opportunity. As in there’s no such thing as dumb luck. You put yourself in a position to be lucky, thus, if you are lucky, you are good. And to be inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, a person […]
While millions watched the New England Patriots show why they are the best in the world at what they do this past Sunday afternoon against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Doug McBride and Steve Ballan were doing the same before several hundred people at the seventh-annual Rainy River Walleye Tournament. Trailing Norm […]
Offering a possible solution to the doctor shortage here, a non-profit organization has approached the Town of Fort Frances about taking over management of the Fort Frances Clinic. Town council passed a resolution at its regular meeting Monday night approving, in principle, the intent to give the proposal by the […]
So Barry Bonds is back. Well, whooped-de-freakin’-do. I care more about my ex-girlfriend from five years ago than I do about Bonds’ return to Major League Baseball, which is under major league construction ever since those congressional hearings earlier this year where Rafael Palmeiro adamantly said, with a pointed finger, […]
Bent over like a comma and wearing kneepads. On Saturday, I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror again and, oh brother, I really had gone over the edge. I looked like a loser. First of all, there was the jean shorts. I must have had my eyes closed […]
Last Thursday was the first day of fall. But for some reason, my Manitoba maples have been shedding their leaves for the past month. On Rainy Lake, many of the white birch have had their leaves turn to gold and they, too, are dropping. I travelled to Rainy River over […]
Natural Resources minister David Ramsay is expected to announce his government’s plan for the forestry sector in Ontario on Thursday morning in Thunder Bay. Fort Frances Coun. Tannis Drysdale said the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association has been informed that Ramsay will deliver the package in Thunder Bay in the morning […]
A non-profit organization is offering a possible solution to the doctor shortage here, with town council passing a resolution at its regular meeting last night in support of the proposal in principle. The Group Health Association of Sault Ste. Marie has submitted a proposal to the Town of Fort Frances […]
Logan Allen set the ball during a practice for the Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team yesterday. The Muskie court teams begin their NorWOSSA season today in Dryden, with their first home stand slated for this Thursday at Fort High with games taking place at 3:30 and 5 p.m. —Emmanuel Moutsatsos […]
Steve Ballan held one of the walleyes he and Doug McBride had caught on Sunday to help them win the Rainy River Walleye tournament. —Emmanuel Moutsatsos photo
