Ken Kellar CBC Thunder Bay radio host Jeff Walters spoke with Fort Frances Community Chest’s Joelle Blanc Paull during the live broadcast from the Fort Frances Public Library yesterday morning. The on-location segment of Superior Morning also spoke with the new library CEO Joan MacLeod, as well as the owners […]
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Sam Odrowski
The Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre recently welcomed a new CEO after losing Caroline Goulding in July. Joan MacLean, who’s worked as a librarian since 2006, started as CEO on Sept. 27 and is thrilled to work in a community that truly supports its library. “I knew the fact […]
Sam Odrowski
The Fort Frances Senior Centre Board of Management is currently consulting with the public to determine if it should be kept in its current location or moved to the recently closed Fort Frances Daycare Centre. Allan Bedard, who’s a user of the facility also known as the Sister Kennedy Centre, […]
Sam Odrowski
The Town of Fort Frances now has a little less than three months to find a new owner for the idle pulp and paper mill here. An agreement was reached last Thursday between the town and Riversedge Development’s numbered company, 2670568 Ontario Limited, that settles close to $500,000 in unpaid […]
Ken Kellar CBC Thunder Bay’s Jeff Walters, left, spoke with Bayview Motel and Neighbours Modern Diner owners Jamie Pryde and Myles Wilcott yesterday morning at the Fort Frances Public Library. Walters was interviewing the business owners as part of an on-location segment of CBC Thunder Bay’s Superior Morning Program. A […]
Sam Odrowski
After 85 years of Cumming family ownership, the Fort Frances Times was sold to London Publishing last Thursday. Not much will change at the Times. It will continue to print four days a week and all 30 of its employees are being maintained. “It’s kind of heartwrenching, but it’s the […]
Ken Kellar Women attending the 2019 Luncheon of Hope listened to guest speaker Christa Heibel following the lunch on Saturday at the Copper River Inn. Elizabeth Leishman-Fortes, the emcee for the luncheon, had said the organization worried about whether the luncheon still had relevance in the community, but admitted to […]
Tonight will be considerably cloudy with a bit of rain and a low of 10 C (50 F). Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with occasional rain throughout the day and periods of rain at night. Expect a high of 14 (57) and low of nine (48). Friday will rain through […]
