It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that the family of Leonard Nelson Mann announces his passing on August 21, 2026, at the age of 66. Lennie was born on September 25, 1959, in Rainy River, Ontario, to Lawrence and Opal Mann. He grew up in LaVallee alongside his […]
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It is with heavy hearts we announce the peaceful passing of Clora Josephine McEvoy (Dumeney) at Riverside Health Care on September 6, at the age of 101 years old (but young at heart). She was born in Mine Centre on July 5, 1925. She was predeceased by her husband Weldon […]
EVENTS CALENDAR Tour De Fort is holding its Annual General Meeting Wednesday Sept. 9, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. in the 52 Canadians conference room at Memorial Sports Centre. New board members and volunteers welcome. The FFHS Muskies sports season gets underway on Friday as they take on the Beaver Brae […]
EVENTS CALENDAR The OPP Golden Helmets motorcycle riders will be performing their formation riding in Fort Frances at the Fort Frances Airport on Sunday Sept. 6 getting started at 6 p.m. The Fort Frances District Labour Council will be holding a labour day celebration at Legion Park on Labour Day, […]
By Will Brooks
The Fort Frances Times welcomes Will Brooks, the latest addition to our editorial staff. We asked Will to give himself an introduction in his own words. Will currently resides in Ottawa, but will soon be joining us in Fort. – Editor My name is Will Brooks. I am 32 years […]
BOOK REVIEW
By Robert Animikii Horton
By Robert Animikii Horton
When I was in elementary school, there was a club. This ominous club met on the lawn of L.O. Jacob Elementary School, under an oak tree that resembled a bear den. They were the Geek Club. Roll call: Gable. Beres. Midthun. Greenhoe. Lamers. Geslin. My crew (Josh, Paul, Matt and […]
By Grace Petsnick
The Book Stop
The Book Stop
If you read my piece on teaching Shakespeare in high school, you know I have some bones to pick with it. However, I will play my own devil’s advocate here by discussing my favourite play, Hamlet, and confessing that I now wish I had been forced to read it in […]
We all learned a new word from Mark Carney last week when he spoke of Donald Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario. It was the word hydronyms, which is the naming of bodies of water. “We know that America is changing,” Carney said. “Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national […]
Wow, the beginning of September has arrived. Really, our weather has been pretty incredible. The rain that we have had won’t matter much for our conditions this year, but it should help us out long term. I have managed to keep my cows happy with the little bit of grass […]
The always-enjoyed Seniors Coffee will begin on Sept. 8 and then return Sept. 22. The coffee gathering is from 1-3 p.m. at the Devlin Hall. Come out and enjoy an afternoon of socializing and catching up with other seniors. There will be coffee, tea and home baking served. Legion beer […]
“She must know Rick ‘The Model’ Martel… probably Greg ‘The Hammer’ Valentine, too.” At least that’s what I figured. After all, when my sister would put me in the Boston Crab or the Figure Four Leglock when we were younger, she would apply it with excellence of execution. She had […]
Did you know? According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, hospitalizations in Canada from injuries caused by electric kick-style scooters (e-scooters) jumped by 32 per cent in the last two years. In addition, recent hospitalization data from 2022-23 and 2023-24 have been a central focus of extensive media coverage […]
