The Rainy River District School Board is expected to approve its operating agreement with several parties involved in a wireless communications project at its regular meeting here tonight. “This is to make it official,” Stephen Danielson, the board’s systems administrator, said yesterday. “We’ve had a working partnership up until now, […]
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The Muskies were on the wrong end of a seesaw affair in Winnipeg on Friday as the River East Kodiaks came back to bite them 27-22. The black-and-gold surrendered the first score of the game after a blocked field goal attempt by Adam McTavish was recovered by River East for […]
No charges have been laid yet against those behind the standoff and hostage situation at the jail here in late June. “[OPP] indicated to me that at this point, no charges have been laid with respect to the June hostage-taking situation at the Fort Frances Jail,” noted Julia Noonan, a […]
The Borderland Thunder had a successful regular-season debut in the Superior International Junior Hockey League over the weekend, winning two of three games in Thunder Bay. After dropping a narrow 6-5 decision to the Thunder Bay Bulldogs (1-1) on Friday, the Thunder (2-1) beat the Thunder Bay Wolves 6-1 on […]
As winter approaches, the Fort Frances condominium committee is looking for five more people to sign up to make the project a go. To date, 25 down payments have been made for the 36 condos–just five shy from a target of 30 down payments necessary for the riverfront development to […]
In loving memory of Joyce Reta Walton, 74, of 851 Colonization Rd. W., Fort Frances, Ont., who passed away Friday, Sept. 28, 2001 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was born Feb. 18, 1927 in Neepewa, Ont. to Noble and Annie Hyatt. […]
James “Jim” Plumridge, aged 68 years, of 715 Third Street West, Fort Frances, Ontario passed away at La Verendrye General Hospital on Wednesday, September 26, 2001. Jim was born September 13, 1933 in Fort Frances, Ontario to the late Lyle and Elizabeth Plumridge. On November 5, 1952, he was united […]
They may been rookies to the Great Chili Cook-off, but the Fort Frances Times’ team of Rosanne Kellar and Jennifer Dent managed to woo the judges with their “2001: A Chili Odyssey” at today’s event in the Times’ parking lot. “I knew we had really good chili. But I didn’t […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources was scheduled to ignite an 800-hectare prescribed burn in the North Basswood Lake area of Quetico Park today. The fire aims to burn off heavy blowdown timber that remains in the park from a severe windstorm that passed through that area in 1999, the MNR […]
The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is holding a corn roast in conjunction with the BIA’s Harvest Festival tomorrow to raise money for town beautification. Now that summer is over, it is time to think about projects for next year, which includes fundraising. “The more money we can raise, the […]
The two-day blood donor clinic that wrapped up here Thursday fell well short of its goal. “We had a total of 368 donors and that’s short of our quota of 425,” said Marnee Miller of the La Verendrye hospital auxiliary, which helped organize the clinic locally. The clinic, held at […]
The Muskie ‘B’ football team came close to winning their first game of the season yesterday, falling 12-6 to the host International Falls Broncos. The Bees (0-3) hung in tough until the last few minutes of the game when their drive for the game-tying touchdown only got as far as […]
