Heather Latter In an effort to have all students feel included at Robert Moore School, administration has allowed for a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club to be started there recently. “The students asked if they could have a club and we provided an opportunity for it to happen,” explained principal Bill […]
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Heather Latter Laud Edwards has battled childhood leukemia for the last three-and-a-half years. But on April 7, the seven-year-old won the battle after completing his last intrathecal chemotherapy treatment in Winnipeg. His large family—parents, Pam and Gary, and siblings, Cole, Piper, Berea, Jude, Creed (Laud’s identical twin), Jubilee, and Nain—even […]
Heather Latter Seven local acts have been selected to participate in this year’s “Harmony of Nations” Music Festival, which is set for July 17-18 at the Sorting Gap Marina here. “We have a really diverse group of musicians so it’s not just one genre that is going to be playing […]
the MNRF It was a busy weekend for Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry FireRangers. Aerial detection discovered a new fire yesterday in Thunder Bay District about 50 km west of Lake Nipigon. The lightning-caused fire is burning on a small island on Myles Lake. It currently is listed as […]
the OPP On Friday at 2:45 p.m., the Rainy River District OPP responded to a traffic complaint about a possible impaired driver on King’s Highway, proceeding east into Emo. Officers located the suspect vehicle in Emo and stopped it. The driver, a 37-year-old woman from Rainy River First Nation, was […]
the MNRF Two fires were reported in the Northwest Region yesterday afternoon, including the first one in Fort Frances District in about two weeks. Fort Frances Fire #11 was located about 20 km east of Atikokan. FireRanger crews fought it with hand tools, pumps, and hose. It was declare “out” […]
Ken Johnston Rainy River First Nation has harnessed the sun and stands to benefit from it greatly over the next 20 years! An official ribbon-cutting ceremony was held last Thursday at the 25-megawatt solar farm it spearheaded and is running just northeast of Pinewood. Band manager Dean Wilson welcomed a […]
Lindsay Campbell With Saturday marking the opening of walleye season, local angler Dale LaBelle, of LaBelle’s Birch Point Camp on Northwest Bay, said the conditions are great—and should stay that way. “We were pretty busy this weekend at the camp,” he noted. “There were lots of people who came out […]
Lindsay Campbell With Saturday marking the opening of walleye season, local angler Dale LaBelle, of LaBelle’s Birch Point Camp on Northwest Bay, said the conditions are great—and should stay that way. “We were pretty busy this weekend at the camp,” he noted. “There were lots of people who came out […]
the MNRF The region’s fire scene was quiet over the long weekend. No new fires were reported yesterday or Sunday, and just one new fire reported on Saturday—a 0.1-hectare blaze that spread into the grass from a brush fire located in Grassy Narrows (Kenora District). That fire was declared “out” […]
Staff Just one new fire was confirmed in the Northwest Region yesterday. Sioux Lookout Fire #11—a human-caused blaze—currently is classed as “not under control” at 0.1 hectares in size. This was the only active fire as of press time today. Meanwhile, two other fires were declared “out” yesterday, including Kenora […]
Heather Latter Despite the drop in temperatures this past week, the Fort Frances Community Garden is gearing up for its kids’ club—and still has some spaces available. “We can definitely accommodate more kids, for sure, if there’s interest,” said Elaine Fischer, a member of the Fort Frances Community Garden committee, […]
