Emo town council voted to enter into an Automatic Aid Agreement, which would provide fire services to Manitou First Nations, in the event of an emergency in that community. Emo joins Chapple, LaVallee, Alberton and other local jurisdictions, to uphold the agreement. Manitou First Nations had approached its neighbouring municipality […]
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Centre has been provided with $1.4 million for ongoing renovations and transitional housing The Ontario government is providing $1.4 million to the Out of the Cold Warming Centre in Fort Frances. The funding is for the former church to be retrofitted and for transitional housing to be implemented. Rainy River […]
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The Ontario government announced more than $56 million in combined federal and provincial funding to bring high-speed Internet to over 6,500 households in rural northwestern and southwestern Ontario. The governments are investing $2.3 million for connections in Barwick and Rainy River, and $1.3 million for Ignace. The governments estimate a […]
In Spring, I find myself missing home more than maybe I do the rest of the year. Maybe. It isn’t so much about my childhood home, but rather the farm, the river, spring calves, dandelions. In April, play was all about water, about melting snow, of the spring run-off racing […]
From a distance we have been watching the weather in Fort Frances. To say the least, the past two weeks have been a trial for district residents with heavy wet snow loads, torrential rain and over the past weekend, flooding. We have missed those weather-related issues, but have experienced snow, […]
Dear editor, With regards to the proposed Nuclear Waste Repository in the Ignace area, the Nuclear Waste Management had started our with many possibility’s for this repository in the granites in the Canadian Shield two of which they have already ruled out because the water out of the repository area […]
It was an absolute cacophony of sound when I walked up to the Debating Table at the Bakery in Rainy River the other morning. All ten voices were going at once, talking…no… shouting over each other. Envelopes were being waved and fists pounded on the table. Cups were sloshing and […]
I don’t ever remember stopping a cattle sale for lightening, but we did this past Saturday. What a week of weather and it doesn’t sound like we are through it all yet. To say this has been a tough spring in an understatement. Our springtime calvers are fighting every day […]
The Rainy River dock at Hannam Park is close to being submerged, due to rising water levels. The river rose 10 inches between Monday and Tuesday.
The rain and snow that hit over the weekend left many roads washed out and water in basements. The Municipality was quick to respond; Sunday saw Neil MacDonald and Brody Strachan out grading the roads and making the best of a bad and a disastrous situation. I’d like to thank […]
With sadness, the family announces the passing of Elizabeth Carol Donaldson (Anderson) of Queen Street Manor, Emo, Ontario, on Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Fort Frances, Ontario. Elizabeth was born May 18, 1935, at the home of her parents Axel and Ivah (Strachan) Anderson in the community of Box Alder, […]
With sadness we announce the passing of our dad, Randy Klem, on April 23, 2022, at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. He was born in Fort Frances on March 13, 1956, to Fred and Ladonna Klem. He grew up and lived his whole life in Fort Frances. He […]
