Local News from Across the Rainy River District
The only movie theatre in the Rainy Lake area is in danger of shutting its doors. The costs of repairing a water leak affecting the sprinkler system in the Cine 5 Theatres in International Falls, Minn., could be more than the business can bear. Complications from the incident forced the […]
Sensei Randy Ball and Gordon Witherspoon at Borderland Judo Club have been practicing the unarmed modern Japanese martial art for almost 50 years. Last weekend on January 7 they hosted a Judo Clinic where teachers and students from judo clubs in Kenora, Dryden and Thunder Bay gathered to uphold a […]
Fort Frances Lakers players returned from the Christmas break to a new interim head coach. Formerly an assistant coach for about a year, Tyler Miller was promoted to interim head coach with the firing of the Lakers head coach Paul MacLean. Miller first came on under Ron MacKinnnon when MacKinnon […]
Singer-Songwriter Amanda Rheaume and her band brought an amazing show to the Townshend Theatre last Friday night with songs from her latest album The Spaces In Between. Rheaume also told stories from her life and her family’s past which were influenced by Treaty #3 Territory. –Allan Bradbury photo
A red-bellied woodpecker is looking for a tasty meal of insects, lurking beneath the bark of a tree. These birds are easy to spot, because of their drilling operations. – Staff photo
Jeff Wright runner up, Bob Tkachuk and winner Jeff Gustafson enjoy a laugh after the com- petition at the Boxing Day Squash Tournament. The match-up was one of several scheduled to take place over the winter. – Submitted photo
Residents across much of the Rainy River District, and up into the Kenora area, were left in the dark Monday night after an unidentified issue knocked out power for hours. While reports began appearing online from those experiencing an outage late yesterday afternoon, the Hydro One Facebook page noted at […]
Dear editor, We’ve been avid readers of the Fort Frances Times for decades and are grateful for the vital part The Times plays in keeping our community informed and entertained. Your article “Times past and future” summarized it well for us. Over years past the editorial page of this newspaper […]
Dear editor, The nuclear industry has been looking for a place to dump their toxic waste for over five decades and Northern Ontario has been the main focus of their efforts. Back in the early 1980s shortly after two mines closed Atomic Energy Of Canada Ltd.(AECL) came to Atikokan with the […]
On Sunday, we woke to a wonderful winter wonderland as the fog of Saturday night painted the branches of trees with a white furry hoarfrost. We often forget about the beauty of our urban forest in winter. But Sunday morning with a brilliant blue clear sunlit sky, the white trees […]
The Mission House Sidewalk Project is completed. The steps were replaced in the spring of 2020 and then the ramp was built/replaced in the late fall of 2020. The ramp had the addition added to allow easier access to the building by reducing the grade of the ramp. This fall […]
