Nicholas Donaldson Jackson Bourgeois and Peyton Arpin were dressed up and ready for Valentine’s Day as they took part in activities last Tuesday in the Early Years French immersion class at St. Michael’s School here.
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Duane Hicks Town council is considering reducing hours of operation at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre in order to trim its operating budget At its budget meeting yesterday, council began weighing whether to reduce library hours from 59 hours per week to 54 in order to save $26,320. […]
Press Release On Jan. 31, members of the Fort Frances Fire & Rescue Service responded to a motor-vehicle crash here involving two trucks. Gavin Payne and Wayne Riches utilized a Hurst eDRAULIC combination tool to remove the driver’s side door of a truck where a person was trapped. Fort Frances […]
Nicholas Donaldson Liam McEvoy was dressed in his voyageur best for “Voyageur Day” activities on Friday at St. Francis School. McEvoy was getting a lesson on Métis dot art but other activities included voyageur games, jigging/square dancing, flag-making, Métis food sampling, and information on furs and trapping.
Robin McCormickDevlin correspondent Every year, the Township of La Vallee nominates a local individual as “Senior of the Year.” But this year, the township decided to take a different approach and instead ask residents to nominate someone they think should receive the award. The “Senior of the Year” has to […]
Duane Hicks Ember van der Kroef oversaw her brother, Eric, as he made a magnet during Family Day activities at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre. Kids could bring photos they could use to make their own personalized magnets in the library’s maker space. They also were welcome stay […]
Duane Hicks The Town of Fort Frances will be hiring a sixth full-time firefighter. Council decided yesterday afternoon to keep $75,444 in its 2017 operating budget to hire a firefighter starting April 1. While several members of council expressed concern at the Feb. 6 budget meeting that the town had […]
It was Family Day in Ontario on Monday and here in Fort Frances, we had a thunderstorm and rain for most of the day. Needless to say, it was not the most wonderful day for outdoor family activities. Driving back from Dryden under a sunny sky Saturday afternoon, I could […]
Death is not the opposite of life but a part of it. Haruki Murakami, a Japanese writer, said those words and he is the same age as our beloved Stuart McLean, whose death left our world a lot less bright today–the day I am writing this; writing to soothe the […]
It’s coming up to three years since town council decided to drop “Pither” from the “Point” because, as a former Indian agent, his name continued to spark bitterness among local First Nations more than a century later. Many names of towns, parks, buildings, other structures, and even sports teams remain […]
Falls JournalFrom theInternational Former Boise Cascade chairman and chief executive officer John B. Fery has died following complications from acute leukemia. Surrounded by family, Fery passed away at his California home on Feb. 11, just days before his 87th birthday. According to a news release, Fery was perhaps best known […]
Staff An open house for the exhibit, “Freemasonry: A History Hidden in Plain Sight,” will be held tomorrow (Feb. 23) from 3-6 p.m. at the Fort Frances Museum. The exhibit, which explains some of the symbolism and history that surrounds the Masons, is on loan from the Bruce County Museum […]
