Fort Frances Mayor Glenn Witherspoon will return to the helm of council for a third term after beating out challenger Allan Bedard by a two-to-one margin at the polls Monday. When the last of the ballots were counted, Witherspoon had pulled in 2,211 votes to Bedard’s 1,015 (all results are […]
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Students aren’t back on the athletic fields yet, as some speculated might happen, after Justice James MacPherson’s denied a court injunction Monday to order teachers back to the classroom. And NorWOSSA football convener Pete Fair warned that has “time is ticking” on the the league’s football season. The Muskies’ final […]
Dale Chambers is grabbing the bull by the horns, so to speak. In an effort to showcase the area’s wildlife, the local hunting enthusiast now is offering his talents to measure and score animals free of charge for potential North American Big Game Trophies. He’s confident measuring these animals can […]
Monday is election day. It may be the most important municipal election in the twentieth century, not because it’s the last of the millennium, but it’s the first involving a major restructuring of provincial/municipal financial responsibility. Those elected to town councils will face struggles their predecessors didn’t have to face. […]
Dear sir Last week, a news conference was held at Queen’s Park by Ernie Eves, the minister of finance for the Government of Ontario. Mr. Eves stated that education spending has remained steady for the past two years. He referred to drastic government cuts to education spending as a “myth.” […]
Dear sir: On Nov. 10, during the municipal election, we, the voters of Fort Frances, will be given the opportunity to stop the proliferation of gambling in Fort Frances. We will be asked if we support video lottery terminals (VLTs) and the establishment of a charitable gaming club in our […]
Dear editor: I am researching my family history and would like to ask your readers for their assistance. I am searching for information on my grandmother, Christina Beatrice Mosher, who was born on Feb. 23, 1897 in Fort Frances, Ont. Her mother’s name was Christina Crowe and her father’s name […]
Dear editor: Recent letters to the editor concerning Bill 160 have been written by teachers who have been in the game for a while. I thought the public might be interested to hear what a first-year teacher had to say. I graduated from university this past spring with seven years […]
To the editor, Just a few lines in regards to Arlene Georgeson’s letter in last week’s paper (Oct. 29) about the transit system which was discontinued. Unless you, Arlene, were dependent on the bus for transportation, and unless you had to use it like all the seniors did, you cannot […]
Dear sir: I would like to take a bit of space in your paper to say a few words to the electors. First, I am pleased to see that we are having real elections in Fort Frances. There is some competition for each position. This is good–it means that the […]
In the fall of 1995, we circulated a petition in Fort Frances and Northwestern Ontario. It was directed to the National Parole Board requesting that parole be denied to Neil Scott Soutar, convicted of brutally raping two young women in Fort Frances. At the time, he was the director of […]
