It will be cloudy tonight, with a 50 percent chance of rain mixed with snow. Look for an overnight low around minus-one (30 F) and southeast winds at 10-15 mph. Tomorrow will see periods of rain all day, with a 90 percent chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Expect a […]
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Town council will continue to look at the cost of increasing the width and depth of the Portage Avenue subway to allow trucks to pass through it. The subway–which passes beneath the CN rail lines located between Third Street East and Fifth Street East–has begun to deteriorate and council agreed […]
The Northern Action Group (NAG) appears to be stepping back onto the stage. During Monday night’s regular meeting, town council will receive three items from the group of residents who formed NAG to act as advocates on local issues. One of the items NAG has questioned is traffic flow and […]
“Thank you for choosing Shaw.” Starting Monday, that’s what you’ll hear if you call the reception desk at the local Videon office. Shaw Communications had taken over Videon’s parent company, Moffatt Communications, late last month. But customers can still expect everything they’re used to getting from Videon. “From what I […]
Mrs. Evelyn Marie Richard, 75, a resident of Jewell Street and longtime resident of Lakeshore Drive, passed away in St. Joseph’s Care Group on April 6, 2001 following a lengthy illness. Born Dec. 4, 1925 in Fort Frances, Ont., she had been a resident of Thunder Bay, Ont. since 1945. […]
An area family has filed a $10 million lawsuit against numerous parties, including the Ontario Provincial Police, in connection with a case where three family members were charged with creating and operating an obscene Web site. In the claim, Don Smith, along with his wife, Lorna, their two children, and […]
The Rainy River District School Board is expecting to see student enrolment drop again this year but what impact this will have on the 2001-2002 staffing remains to be seen. “We’re always updating these projections but most recently, the projected enrolment will see 100 less elementary students and 35 less […]
As crews install studding in the room that will house the hemodialysis unit at La Verendrye hospital here, Dr. Bill McCready revealed Tuesday that it won’t not be operational until September. “The renovations could be done by June. But there’s no need to start up until then,” said Dr. McCready, […]
With Pharmasave celebrating its grand opening this week at its new location at the corner of Scott Street and Mowat Avenue, it’s fitting to look back and see how the business first made its way to Fort Frances. In 1948, local businessman Peter Jensen opened the original “Clinic Pharmacy” at […]
According to Bell, all of Northwestern Ontario is on Thunder Bay time. While they are able to supply new technology in the form of high-speed data transfers, video-conferencing, and ISDN, Bell has been unable to accommodate the Central time zone here. As such, all the caller identification displays in Rainy […]
Registrations for the second-annual ManOMin Watershed conference keep rolling in but it appears there still will be space for latecomers when the event gets underway Friday over in International Falls. “It’s going very well. We got lots of registrations back in this past week,” said Rebecca Dodd of the Rainy […]
A new, 18-hole golf course at Couchiching could be open as early as next summer. “The architect has said that if all goes well, we could be done by next year,” Couchiching Chief Chuck McPherson noted this morning. Plans have been drawn, funds allocated, and land cleared for the project, […]
