The Northwest Catholic District School Board is staying positive about its students’ performance after finding grade three and six scores from last spring’s reading, writing, and math testing showed both increases and decreases. “Math is up significantly,” said Ron Fryer, curriculum co-ordinator for the local separate school board. “And while […]
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Rainy River council held its regular meeting a day late last Tuesday (Nov. 13) due to the Remembrance Day holiday. A hot topic of discussion was the proposal to amalgamate the Rainy River Fire Department with Dawson’s. Mayor Gord Prost said there has been a mix-up as to what will […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board will take time at its regular meeting tonight to see just how its grade three and six students did with this year’s Education Quality and Accountability Office testing. The detailed results—specifically, which percentage of students passed the reading, writing, and math tests back in […]
Four people died in a fiery collision Saturday evening when two pick-up trucks collided head-on on Highway 17 about 30 km west of Kenora. The two vehicles were heading in opposite directions around 8:20 p.m. when the accident happened near Rush Bay Road. The severity of the collision caused a […]
They may not have captured the “gold” but the district 4-H “Go For the Gold” team pulled off a fourth-place showing during the provincial trivia competition held Nov. 3 during the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto. “The team did very well. In the preliminaries, they were tied for second,” […]
Ear Falls OPP charged two Absent Without Leave U.S. Marine recruits on Tuesday after the pair had been found hiding out in a tourist camp in the Perrault Falls area. Police first were alerted of the pair Nov. 2 when Kenora OPP received a call from one of the two […]
They say the focus of any minor hockey association in Canada is to teach the game and stress hard work over wins and losses. But for the long-running and successful Emo/Devlin/Barwick Minor Hockey Association, players and parents are faced with the extra challenge of travelling fair distances just to get […]
Local MP Robert Nault responded angrily yesterday to the United States Department of Commerce’s preliminary determination in its anti-dumping investigation of softwood lumber from Canada. The department determined Canadian softwood lumber exports to the United States were dumped in the U.S. on average by 12.58 percent. “This decision is absolutely […]
Kenora OPP is investigating a two-vehicle accident that occurred yesterday afternoon Highway 17 near Royal Lake Road, resulting in the Trans-Canada being closed for about two hours. The accident occurred around 3 p.m. when a westbound tractor-trailer unit and an eastbound pickup truck collided about 30 km west of Kenora, […]
Kenora OPP is investigating the sudden death of 35-year-old Whitefish Bay First Nation man reported last night. A post-mortem was scheduled for later today but foul play is not suspected, police said. Police were notified around 8: 30 p.m. by the victim’s family when Daniel Joseph, a Whitefish Bay First […]
Two prominent couples, Len and Mary Jordens and Willard and Joyce Wilson, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversaries back on Oct. 25. On the Saturday (Oct. 27), the couples each received blessings from his Holiness, Pope John Paul II, at different gatherings. The Wilsons received theirs while they were with family […]
Although I don’t have a great deal of new news items to report on this week, two others well worth mentioning are the slo-pitch fundraiser dance Saturday and the Remembrance Day services being held Sunday. The dance will be held at the Devlin Hall, with the highlight being a live […]
