The Rainy River District School Board will vote on two tentative agreements reached last month with its teachers at its regular monthly meeting here tonight. The board announced it had reached a tentative four-year settlement with its secondary teachers on May 17, and reached a similar agreement with its elementary […]
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Abitibi-Consolidated wants to trim its costs to the point where its North American mills are in the first or second cost quartile of the industry and at least one Ontario mill doesn’t meet that test, company officials said yesterday. The forestry company wants to cut $175 million from its operations […]
It appears the Manitoba Junior Hockey League will schedule a few exhibition games to be played in Fort Frances prior to the upcoming season. “We’re working on them [teams in the MJHL] coming down and playing some of their . . . games down here with teams that have some […]
A new Fun in the Sun queen will be crowned July 1, a pageant organizer confirmed Monday morning. “It is a go,” said Dawn Booth, who is co-organizing this year’s event with Melissa Gushulak and Cheryl Hoard. The future of the annual pageant was up in the air after only […]
The local Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario last Thursday unanimously approved the tentative agreement recently negotiated with the Rainy River District School Board. The board will vote on this agreement at its regular board meeting tomorrow night (June 7). Once the provincial framework was in place, the local public board […]
Fort Frances OPP is asking the public for help in solving a theft. Sometime during the early-morning hours of last Thursday (June 2), suspects entered a residence on the 700 block of Second Street West. Once inside, the culprits removed a Toshiba laptop computer and a purse. Anyone with information […]
The bodies of two Illinois men have been recovered from Wabigoon Lake near Dryden, Dryden OPP reported this morning. Dryden OPP had responded to a distressed boat call on Wabigoon Lake around 2 p.m. on Friday. The two men, who were guests at Bonny Bay Camp, had gone out fishing […]
Aaron Meyers, four, of Couchiching First Nation found a new friend in this week-old Holstein calf during Dairy Day at the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market on Saturday. –Michael Hilborn photo
Shane Wepruk, an employee at Dory’s Fish Market, is hoping this giant halibut and fresh lobster will be long gone after the Scott Street business finishes celebrating its grand opening, which started this morning. The shop, which has been open for about a month, carries a wide variety of fish […]
Things looked good for Sight & Sound heading into the sixth inning at VanJura Stadium here last night as the two-time defending Rainy River District Fastball League champs led Stratton 6-2. But the wheels fell off. Stratton erupted with six runs in the sixth, then added nine more in the […]
An excessive amount of groundwater required the town to divert sewage into the Rainy River and relieve stress on its sewage treatment system last week. And while the 5.6 cm (2.2. inches) of rain that fell in a 12-hour period was to blame, the fact some residents still haven’t switched […]
John Rafferty will carry the NDP banner in Thunder Bay-Rainy River during the next federal election after being acclaimed as the candidate by party members this week. “I’m very pleased the members in the riding have shown the confidence in me that the have,” Rafferty said this morning. The party […]
