Former resident Tressa Main, who now lives in Winnipeg, and her team of wakeboarders, the “Freeriders,” will be holding a clinic on the upper river tomorrow from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. “We’ve been talking about doing something in Fort for such a while,” Main had said in an interview with the […]
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The next regular meeting of town council, originally slated for Monday, Aug. 23, has been pushed back a week until Aug. 30. Council held a brief special meeting yesterday afternoon and decided to change the meeting date because three of the councillors could not be present Aug. 23. At least […]
The Stratton Bobcats did it. The eighth-seeded team came to VanJura Stadium here last night to square off against top seed and defending champion Sight & Sound and took it to them in the first round of the Rainy River District Fastball League playoffs. “My hat is off to Stratton,” […]
Reconstruction of King’s Highway in the west end of town is set to begin Aug. 23 and will continue into next July, excluding the months of November-May. The work will take place from 150 metres west of McIrvine Road to Keating Avenue, covering 625 metres of King’s Highway, Operations and […]
A Fort Frances man won the $250,000 Encore prize from the Aug. 7 draw, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. reported yesterday. “I first saw the winning numbers on television and I couldn’t believe it,” Wayne Lengyel Jr. told staff at the OLC’s Toronto prize office when he claimed his […]
Local response to the story in yesterday’s Times on the plight of one-year-old Alicia Delbridge already has been impressive, says family friend Michelle Grynol. In fact, Grynol is asking people not to donate any more money to her directly but instead to go to the customer service desk at Canada […]
Top-seeded Sight & Sound will meet eight-seeded Stratton tonight at 7:30 at VanJura Stadium here as the Rainy River District Fastball League kicks off playoff action. Other action pits second-seeded Rainy River vs. seventh-seeded Pinewood, Barwick (#3) vs. Big Island (#6), and Big Grassy (#4) hosting Red Gut Bay (#5). […]
They didn’t just beat their opposition to claim gold in Japan, they dominated. Michael McCaig of Fort Frances and Jordan Davis of Devlin were members of the Manitoba Polar Ice ‘AAA’ Bantam hockey team that captured top spot at the Sapporo International Ice Hockey Meet in Japan on Sunday. “It […]
