Thanks to the recent rains, and cooler than normal temperatures, the fire hazard currently is “low” in every district of the West Fire Region, the Ministry of Natural Resources reported yesterday. “It isn’t so much we’ve received copious amounts of rain. There’s just been a cycle of weather that’s really […]
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It’s a start, but there’s still a long way to go. That pretty well summed up the opinion of Clover Valley Farmers’ Market manager Deb Cornell after the Fort Frances High School band’s consignment auction there Saturday. A vast number of items—ranging from antique jars to a one-night fishing trip […]
Given a choice, would you rather spend a sunny Friday afternoon at work or playing golf? Well, considering it was all for a good cause anyway, 14 teams of four decided to play hooky last Friday to play in the eighth-annual Confederation College Scholarship Golf Tournament out at Kitchen Creek. […]
While the federal election campaign has heated up between the three main party leaders, the local candidates are managing to remain calm and civil—even in debate. Last Wednesday’s all-candidates’ debate at the Civic Centre here drew a crowd of only about 20 people, most of them involved with the campaign […]
It was a successful season for the Muskies girls’ soccer team—a NorWOSSA championship, an NWOSSAA silver medal, and a trip to the all-Ontarios. “Overall, we’re happy,” said head coach Struchan Gilson, who will retire this year after 19 years of coaching the team. “We’re getting closer.” The black-and-gold successfully competed […]
They came from far and wide, from past and present—students, teachers, principals, and parents. Like salmon drawn inexorably to ancestral rivers to spawn, more than 200 people came back one last time to a place that for many is full of special memories. Last Thursday, Alberton Central School in Crozier […]
Koochiching County’s Environmental Services Department has hired a part-time worker at the solid waste and recycling facility in International Falls to handle the increase in recyclables coming over the border from Fort Frances. Environment Services director Richard Lehtinen said yesterday afternoon that the new worker, who just started there yesterday, […]
We are in one of the tightest races ever in Canada. With just two-and-a-half weeks until election day (June 28), every riding now becomes more important to each political party. Meeting with colleagues from across the county last week suggests to me that we will be seeing a much different […]
