The Rainy River District School Board has approved nine projects to receive funding from the Innovative Projects Program for 2004/05. The program encourages board staff and students to create and plan programs which address student needs that have not been met through existing school or board programs. This year, five […]
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The Town of Fort Frances is on the lookout for more volunteer firefighters, with a deadline for applications coming up Feb. 18. “In the past two or three years, this has become an annual thing,” Fire Chief Steve Richardson noted Monday. “We like to keep a complement of 20 volunteer […]
Both Muskie hockey teams will hold their second-last homestand of the NorWOSSA regular season tonight when the Kenora Broncos invade the Memorial Sports Centre. Trailing first-place Dryden by five points, tonight’s game is pivotal for the boys’ squad against the third-place Broncos. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m. in the […]
Fort Frances OPP announced this morning they have made arrests in connection to the robberies—and attempted robberies—of several local businesses over the past few months. Members of the Fort Frances OPP arrested Neil Craig Brown, 35, and Pamela Marie Magel, 24, both residents of Portage La Prairie, Man., on Friday […]
It had been almost three months since the Muskie boys’ hockey team played the Thunder Bay Midget ‘AAA’ Kings but this past weekend’s results mirrored their first series from early November—two losses. Saturday night’s game was a scoring spree as the final ended up being 8-5 for the visitors. “If […]
The Jim Jackson rink (Fort Frances) slipped to 3-1 at the senior men’s association playdowns being played in Kenora. Jackson, along with third Rob Sinclair, second Glen Jackson, and lead Stan Cottam, shook hands after the fifth end this morning in a 8-2 loss to Alan Hicks (Kenora). Jackson will […]
With the regular season winding down, the Muskie boys’ hockey team will take to the ice here this weekend against an opponent they faced to the start the campaign. The Thunder Bay Midget ‘AAA’ Kings will be in town for exhibition games tomorrow (Saturday) at 7 p.m. at the Ice […]
Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. will be receiving more than $600,000 from the provincial government to help balance its budget and improve operations. The province announced the $200 million in transitional funding last week, with different amounts going to hospitals depending on their ability to improve efficiency and balance budgets. […]
The Town of Fort Frances is continuing to work through its 2005 budget process, with a special lunchtime committee of the whole meeting on Tuesday being the most recent of discussions. “The budget process is going very well,” said Fort Frances CAO Mark McCaig. “The biggest issue we’re looking at […]
CHEESEQUAY–Born to Wayne and Denise, of Fort Frances, Ont., a girl, Rhiannon Flame Dwan, weighing 8 lbs. 1 oz. on January 19, 2005 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
