Ken Kellar The risk and cost of a flood outweigh the possible side effects of lower lake levels this summer. That’s the message that came out of a public meeting held last Tuesday night by the International Rainy-Lake of the Woods Watershed Board’s Water Levels Committee at the Rainy River […]
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Icebox Radio Theater of International Falls is proud to present the classic Edgar Allen Poe story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” on Sunday, April 14 at 3 p.m. at the Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis. This production is an original adaptation of the classic tale of terror, with […]
For the past three months, the district has been on a roller-coaster ride. It began with the announcement in early December that an investment group known as Repap was interested in bidding on the mill in Fort Frances up to word Monday morning that Resolute had rejected the offer delivered […]
Ken Kellar Aurora McRitchie got into the groove playing “Beat Saber” using the new Virtual Reality (VR) station at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre on Friday. The library reserves the VR station for hour-long sessions, and also provides several portable VR headsets for check-out by eligible library members.
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Seven Generations Education Institute students currently are in the process of moving into their new facility here. Staff offices from the Nanicost building have moved in and SGEI CEO Brent Tookenay said they’re selecting certain programs to set up in the new building now. “We’re just playing it out on […]
Submitted Local musician Ravyn Bedard is set to release her 14-track rock album, “Strange Voodoo,” this Friday. The 27-year-old Fort Frances resident hopes to perform her original music live around the district this summer.
Tomorrow will mark the beginning of the calendar spring. Sunday was St. Patrick’s Day and the wearing of green really marked the beginning of spring. My mother was dressed in green at her Rainycrest home and she could feel the heat of the sun blazing through her south-facing window on […]
Well, March Break is over and the weather really wasn’t so bad for everyone to get outside and enjoy some fresh air. The sun feels so incredible at this time of the year. I was fortunate to spend a good part of the March Break with some kids. Maddie and […]
I love an umbrella and not for the obvious reason of keeping dry in a downpour, though I suppose that reason may play a part. And it can’t be any umbrella. It must be an umbrella that looks as though it has a story to tell, a secret perhaps, and […]
Sandra Faye Weston Nault, 65, passed away peacefully, after a courageous battle with cancer, on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at her home in Fort Frances, Ont. She was born to Hildor and Mae Estella Weston in Baudette, Mn. on May 17, 1953 and grew up in South International Falls by […]
Bud Moore, loving husband of Joyce for 58 years, as well as father and grandfather, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at the age of 81 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie, Ont. after a sudden and unexpected illness. Bud was born to John Mortimer (Jip) and […]
Betty Mae Siegel, 80, of Thunder Bay, Ont., passed away peacefully, with her family at her side, on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, at the South Health Campus Hospital in Calgary, Alta. Interment will take place in Emo, Ont. at a later date. Betty was born on April 21, 1938 in […]
