With F.H. Huffman School likely to close, in favour of consolidating its students in a new school at the Robert Moore site on Second Street East, the last of the public board’s small “neighbourhood” schools will be gone. The slow process actually began in the early 1980s with the closure […]
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Dear editor: I thank my father-in-law for sending us an annual subscription to the Times. It helps us stay in touch with the community we still love and lived in for years even though we have now been gone for more than a decade. I couldn’t help but write and […]
Dear editor: There have been many items in the news and the community in recent times, some of which are the new library, a re-designed truck route, the international bridge, and the Fort Frances Clinic. It all begins with thought. There is no doubt a library building constructed in 1914 […]
Dear Mr. Editor: I read with interest the column, “From the Publisher’s Pen,” regarding the shopping in Fort Frances and in particular downtown. People usually will shop where they think it is most advantageous to themselves, and no amount of campaigns to shop at home will help very much. However, […]
Dear editor: I heard that the water tower will be refurbished and that is great. However, what is not great—and what surprised me the most—was the town is considering selling space on that water tower for advertising! You must be kidding me! We are bombarded with advertising everywhere we turn. […]
Congratulations to Ken Perry, who was sworn in as town councillor last night after winning Mondays byelection, and thanks to Todd Hamilton for letting his name stand so voters of Fort Frances could have a choice. Sadly, though, the first byelection in our towns 105-year history will be remembered most […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Winona Morrissette announces her passing on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008 at the Emo Health Centre in Emo, Ont. Winona was born Aug. 31, 1923 in Timmins, Ont but she had lived in the Emo area most of her life. She was […]
The family of Dorothy Louise (Faulkner) Miller announce her passing on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2007 at Bevan Lodge in Abbotsford, B.C. After the passing of her husband of 62 years, Jim, in May, 2000, Dot lived on her own in good health until March, 2007, when a fall put her […]
