The Associated PressDan Joling ANCHORAGE, Alaska–Alaska wildlife officials warned people Tuesday to keep their distance from grumpy moose after two close calls over the weekend. One of the animals walked up behind a woman tending chickens in the city of Homer on Sunday and started eating chicken food from a […]
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Nicholas Donaldson People of all ages took part in a beading class yesterday afternoon as part of March Break activities held at the Fort Frances Museum. The class, led by instructor Linda Guimond, was done in partnership with the Métis Nation of Ontario and the Sunset Country Métis.
The Canadian PressLori Ewing TORONTO–After perhaps the poorest effort this season, the Toronto Raptors held a long and surely impassioned post-game meeting. And when coach Dwane Casey finally emerged, his first words were an apology. “That exhibition of basketball was unacceptable,” a seething Casey said. “I want to apologize to […]
From the OPP On Wednesday around 12:40 p.m., the OPP was advised of a plane crash that occurred around 11:35 p.m. on Tuesday about 60 km east of Marathon. The crash site was located by the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre and search-and-rescue technicians. The plane, described as a single-engine Cessna […]
It will be mainly cloudy tonight, with an overnight low of minus-four C (25 F). Tomorrow will be partly sunny and mild, with a high of zero (32) and low around minus-four (25). Isolated showers are forecast for Sunday, along with a high of 10 (50) and low again dipping […]
The Canadian PressBob Weber EDMONTON–Scientists finally have been able to pin down when bison first arrived in North America and helped set the stage for the Great Plains that eventually supported the continent’s first humans. “[Bison] showed up and they interrupted an ecosystem that had existed, more or less, for […]
Duane Hicks A revised library budget, which includes $12,000 in savings, will come before town council at its next regular budget meeting Monday at 4 p.m. The Fort Frances Public Library board and CEO met with town reps twice last week to review the library budget and together were able […]
Staff The Fort Frances Times also has jumped on the Muskie bandwagon with its window display as part of the OFSAA planning committee’s “Paint the Town Black & Gold” contest. Their four front windows feature Times’ staff members as hockey players, refs, coaches, and cheerleaders, as well as pictures of […]
The Associated PressDoug Ferguson ORLANDO, Fla.–Sam Saunders stepped onto the first tee at Bay Hill and flashed a quick thumb’s-up to the crowd–the trademark gesture of his grandfather. For the next four hours, memories of Arnold Palmer were all around him yesterday. Nothing hit him harder, though, than his walk […]
The Canadian PressBill Graveland CALGARY–A man who strapped 120 helium balloons to a lawn chair and soared above the Calgary Stampede grounds today was fined $5,000, with an additional $1,500 tacked on as a victims fine. Daniel Boria, who is 27, pleaded guilty in December to dangerous operation of an […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–If cleanliness is next to godliness, Michael Chong is all-powerful–at least in Guatemala. The Conservative MP and leadership contender has become the poster boy for spotless public washrooms there. His larger-than-life, smiling visage has been spotted gracing a large poster outside a Guatemalan washroom. It announces a […]
The Associated PressAllan Kreda NEW YORK–The well-rested and high-scoring Winnipeg Jets took advantage of a N.Y. Islanders team that looked tired last night. Bryan Little scored twice, and Connor Hellebuyck made 27 saves, as the Jets doubled the Islanders 4-2 to snap a four-game skid. Mathieu Perreault and Adam Lowry […]
