With grade three and six testing coming up next month, the Rainy River District School Board is aiming to give reading a boost after looking at last year’s results. “Strategically, all boards are required to pay attention to the areas of reading, writing, and math. But you need a focus, […]
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District students will be vying to see who has the best French language skills tonight at the Emo Inn when the Northwest Catholic District School Board and Canadian Parents for French hold their “Concours d’art oratoire 2001.” Starting at 7 p.m., the contest will see 10 students from both the […]
An area family has filed a $10 million lawsuit against numerous parties, including the Ontario Provincial Police, in connection with a case where three family members were charged with creating and operating an obscene Web site. In the claim, Don Smith, along with his wife, Lorna, their two children, and […]
The Rainy River District School Board is expecting to see student enrolment drop again this year but what impact this will have on the 2001-2002 staffing remains to be seen. “We’re always updating these projections but most recently, the projected enrolment will see 100 less elementary students and 35 less […]
According to Bell, all of Northwestern Ontario is on Thunder Bay time. While they are able to supply new technology in the form of high-speed data transfers, video-conferencing, and ISDN, Bell has been unable to accommodate the Central time zone here. As such, all the caller identification displays in Rainy […]
Registrations for the second-annual ManOMin Watershed conference keep rolling in but it appears there still will be space for latecomers when the event gets underway Friday over in International Falls. “It’s going very well. We got lots of registrations back in this past week,” said Rebecca Dodd of the Rainy […]
—A body found outside an apartment complex last week has been identified as that of a heroic teen whose sister was murdered 19 years ago. The family of 16-year-old Jocelyn McDonald was notified Tuesday that the body of their daughter, who went missing Oct. 16, had been found. “It’s just […]
Trustees with the Northwest Catholic District School Board gave the nod here Saturday to a plan aimed at improving student performance–but not without a few reservations. The plan, devised by curriculum co-ordinator Ron Fryer after consulting with teachers and principals, looks to improve student performance in the areas of math, […]
“The work is about to begin again.” It’s a statement Wayne Woods, CEO of Riverside Health Care Facilities, is sticking by as plans for the new hemodialysis unit at La Verendrye hospital here have been approved. But after nearly a six-week delay in work, Woods admitted there’s a few questions […]
Fort Frances is the latest in a string of communities in Rainy River District to receive an upgrade from Bell Canada–an upgrade that offers customers a number of new services but still won’t provide residents here with high-speed Internet access. “In the early morning hours on March 23, our team […]
While a collective design process between architects and parents of students of J.W. Walker, Alexander MacKenzie, and Alberton schools is set for mid-April, Alberton Reeve John Milling isn’t sure if the consultation is after the fact when it comes to the closure of their school. “I was at the public […]
The public will get a chance to give its input on plans for a proposed J.W. Walker/Alberton/Alexander MacKenzie school around mid-April, the Rainy River District School Board decided yesterday. “We just met with the architects [Prairie of Winnipeg] today and we decided to set a date for the ‘collective design […]
