Ontario’s government is helping increase broadband access and affordability for more than 600 residents living in the Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation community in Northwestern Ontario. Yesterday, Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines and Minister of Indigenous Affairs, announced Keewaytinook Okimakanak is receiving $179,040 through the Northern Ontario Heritage […]
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From the OPP
The local OPP wants a few good men and women to join its local ranks. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will offer an Information Session for the positions of Constable, Auxiliary Member and Experienced Officer. Guest speakers will be on hand to share knowledge, insight and helpful advice relating to […]
Sam Odrowski
While the town struggles to create economic opportunities at the shuttered paper mill in 2019, council has a strong path going forward to bolster the local economy. Fort Frances recently secured provincial and federal funding for a land-use and economic development feasibility study at the Shelvin Wood Yard and Nurses […]
Jack Elliott Members of the Rainy River Fix It Club (l to r) Len Ricci, Rebecca Wood, and Len Moen, stand behind the Club’s latest project. It is all disassembled, and awaiting restoration. Do you know what it is? Come to rainy this summer at see it at RailRoad Daze.
Tonight will be clear and cold with a low of -32 C (-25 F), -38 (-36) with the wind chill. Tomorrow will be mainly sunny and frigid throughout the day and overnight with a high of -19 (two below) and a low of -28 (-18). Friday will be sunny but […]
From the OPP
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) continue to seek resolution of two unsolved homicides that occurred in Pikangikum more than a decade ago. James Strang and Judy Quill’s Killers Still at Large. At a recent news conference, OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique and Detective-Inspector Randy Heida – Major Case Manager […]
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Ontario farms are increasingly being threatened by trespassers and activists who are illegally entering property, barns and buildings, seizing private property and threatening the health and safety of the farm, employees, livestock and crops. But a local agriculture group is pushing back on the issue. Rainy River Federation of Agriculture […]
Norma, in her 92nd year, passed away peacefully at Fairmount Home, Kingston, Ontario. She was born in Sinclair, Manitoba to Hiram and Mabel Wilson and the family moved to the Rainy River District in Ontario when she was a small child. She spent her formative years on the family homestead […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Carolyn Anne Linda Armstrong announces her passing on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. She was born on June 4, 1946 in Kirkland Lake, Ont. to Simon Joseph and Violet Meany. She was raised in Kirkland Lake and as a young woman moved […]
Cornelia Maria McLeod (nee Vos) peacefully passed away on Feb. 7, 2020 at La Verendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. with her family by her side. Corry was born on July 26, 1931 to parents Gerrit and Metta Vos in Rijnsburg, South Holland (Netherlands), the oldest of eight children. Corry […]
Teresa (Terri) Ashworth passed away on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020 at the LaVerendrye Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Funeral services are pending and a complete obituary will follow.
Dick Lyons passed away peacefully at Rainycrest on Feb. 8, 2020 at the age of 85. Dick was born to the late Rose and Tim Lyons at the Border Mill on Rainy Lake, the middle child of seven. His siblings (Bill, Marie, Shirley, Tim, Wayne, and Carole), nieces, nephews, and […]
