Local News from Across the Rainy River District
It’s that time of year again when performers across the district are called to take part in the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts. The Festival returns for its 83rd year in 2025, with competition beginning on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, with the French drama and speech arts […]
Fort Frances Youth Soccer (FFYS) registration is now available online, with hopes for a great season ahead. Registration for FFYS’s 2025 season opened on Monday and will last until March 18. With that date being a hard deadline, no late registrations will be accepted. The spring soccer program will run […]
Fort Frances Youth Soccer has opened up registration for the 2025 season and the call for volunteers is going out. Joshua Stevens is the new president of Fort Frances Youth Soccer and he says they’re hoping for another great season. “Our hopes for this year is that overall our children […]
The Fort Frances Muskie girls beat St. Patrick Saints two matches to none in the best of three series, with the Muskies dropping just one set over the two matches, setting the team up to return to OFSAA playoffs for the first time in five years. After a dominant performance […]
The Rainy River Valley Agricultural Society will be presenting a Home Town Hoedown old-fashioned barn dance on Saturday, May 3. This is a special year for all involved with the 2025 fair as it’s the 125th anniversary of the Emo Fair. There will be a barn dance/gala which is the […]
150 doctors across the province hand-delivered a presentation on Ontario’s worsening “healthcare crisis” on October 21, 2024, to underscore the severity after the provincial legislature resumed this past Autumn. But, since then, Dr. Dominik Nowak, a family doctor in the Greater Toronto Area and President of the Ontario Medical Association, […]
The Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre (FFPLTC) is recovering following the discovery of “extensive” water damage in the building. According to a social media post made to the FFPLTC’s Facebook page, staff discovered the water damage to the library when they entered the building for regular business on Monday […]
Beleaguered Sunny Cove Camp is once more the subject of discussion as the town looks at alternative directions the property could be taken. At last night’s meeting of town council, Rainy Lake property returned to the agenda. Since its shutdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has extended after significant structural […]
The two-month Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax (GST/HST) break for groceries and holiday essentials that began on Dec. 14, 2024, came to an end on Feb. 16, requiring all registrants selling goods and services that qualified for the tax break to update their accounting and point-of-sale systems to resume […]
Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives have pledged to set up a $500-million critical mineral processing fund to invest in “strategically located” facilities to develop the province’s vast resources of lithium, graphite, zinc, cobalt and other key minerals and metals. The fund, a central economic plank in the party’s re-election platform released on Monday, is […]
KENORA – Anicinabe Park will continue to be run by a private contractor, city councillors decided last week. City administration had proposed putting management of the park near Wauzhushk Onigum Nation back in municipal hands, but the proposal had its critics at Tuesday’s council meeting. Coun. Graham Chaze was among […]
The Phragmites Working Group Lake Bernard has several suggestions for the next Ontario Government on how to better tackle invasive plant species. Spokesperson Marilee Koenderink says the Sundridge-area group — also known as Phrag Fighters — wants to see more adequate funding for agencies that take on non-native plants. This […]
