Molly J. Stout, 66, of Marshfield, Wis., passed away Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016 at her home with her husband, Dave, of 47 years by her side. Funeral services will be held Friday, Dec. 9, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. at St. John’s Catholic Church in Marshfield, where the visitation will be […]
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On the evening of Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, Dmytro “Metro” Badiuk passed away peacefully at the age of 98 with his family at his side. And though he is leaving behind so many who will miss him, some happiness is to be found knowing he will be reunited with his […]
The Ontario government must believe that we all have better bladders in winter than in the summer. I make this comment having travelled numerous times to Thunder Bay and noticed all the pull-off rest stops are now blocked and marked as closed. The gates are across the entrances and even […]
Do you know Yo-Yo Ma? He doesn’t call me at home to ask advice, nor do we meet for coffee to exchange stories, but I do consider Yo-Yo Ma my friend. I’m not sure he is aware of that fact but I don’t think he would mind me saying so. […]
There is that frozen moment in time between this second and the next when all possible scenarios play out as a movie in which I’m in a long, long hallway and being sucked toward an inevitable fate. . . . I was on a reconnaissance mission of sorts in my […]
Over the past weekend, I was invited out to Shoal Lake #39 to participate in its second-annual fisheries conference. Headed by band councillor Karen Kejick, there’s a push being made by Shoal Lake #39 to open the walleye fishery on Shoal Lake for both sport-fishing and commercial fishing activities to […]
Sometimes it’s the smallest of gestures that make the biggest impact. Maria Gilbert, a Grade 11 student at Fort Frances High School, was selected as the local recipient of RBC’s “Canada 150” initiative—a promotion in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017 in which one youth from communities across the […]
Coun. Ken Perry Dear editor: I feel compelled to add further to the issue of railroad right-of-way taxation in Ontario. The current model of taxation that we are experiencing is a dollars per acre structure. Ontario is the only jurisdiction in Canada that follows this path. There are different rates […]
