It’s hard to believe the open water fishing season is still at least a couple weeks away for most lakes across the region. Typically by early May we’re able to launch the boat and start fishing for lake trout, pike, crappie and bass. After a long winter, everybody is eager […]
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It is with heavy hearts that the family of Daniel E. Rostie announces his passing on Saturday, April 23rd, 2022. Dan passed away peacefully a few hours before his 82nd Birthday in Toronto. Daniel was born on April 24th, 1940, in Fort Frances, ON. He attended St. Mary’s and Fort […]
It is with heavy hearts that we were parted from our dad, Sidney Alfred Ward on March 26, 2022, after his having lived a life full of joy and laughter. A service will be held at the Church of the Lutheran Hour in Fort Frances, Ont., on May 6, 2022 […]
More than a Mood- Understanding Depression will take place at the Fort Frances Senior Centre, tonight, Thursday April 28 from 7-8 p.m. The event is open to all oder persons, and is presented by the CMHAFF’s District Mental health Services for Older Adult Program. For more information, call 274-7656. The […]
In Spring, I find myself missing home more than maybe I do the rest of the year. Maybe. It isn’t so much about my childhood home, but rather the farm, the river, spring calves, dandelions. In April, play was all about water, about melting snow, of the spring run-off racing […]
From a distance we have been watching the weather in Fort Frances. To say the least, the past two weeks have been a trial for district residents with heavy wet snow loads, torrential rain and over the past weekend, flooding. We have missed those weather-related issues, but have experienced snow, […]
Dear editor, With regards to the proposed Nuclear Waste Repository in the Ignace area, the Nuclear Waste Management had started our with many possibility’s for this repository in the granites in the Canadian Shield two of which they have already ruled out because the water out of the repository area […]
It was an absolute cacophony of sound when I walked up to the Debating Table at the Bakery in Rainy River the other morning. All ten voices were going at once, talking…no… shouting over each other. Envelopes were being waved and fists pounded on the table. Cups were sloshing and […]
I don’t ever remember stopping a cattle sale for lightening, but we did this past Saturday. What a week of weather and it doesn’t sound like we are through it all yet. To say this has been a tough spring in an understatement. Our springtime calvers are fighting every day […]
