The OPP has suspended the search for 41-year-old Ear Falls resident Geoff McClain at the site where his truck was first located on Saturday. Since that time, an air, ground, and vessel search of the English River area, 13 km southwest of Ear Falls, has turned up nothing. OPP divers […]
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“I was thinking a big purple llama would stand out on the highway,” chuckled Carol Inkster of Emo, referring to a possible sign for her new store, The Purple Llama, which is scheduled to open there March 1. But she isn’t going to purchase the purple llama sign until her […]
The Northwest Catholic District School Board should receive test results Wednesday (Feb. 8) that indicate whether a recently-detected “bug” in the water system at Our Lady of the Way School in Stratton has been eliminated. The “bug”—a bacterial species named pseudomonas aeruginosa—was growing in the water pipes downstream and hiding […]
Tying into the Academy Awards the following night, “Come As You or Come As A Star” is the theme of the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s ninth-annual fundraising event coming up Saturday, March 4 at La Place Rendez-Vous. And the pre-Oscar party is shaping up to be an evening of […]
Don Anness spends nearly every morning at the Emo Speedway, but he doesn’t race stock cars. Rather, he’s into harness racing—and they practise even in the winter. “We hardly miss any time at all, unless it’s really cold,” Anness noted last Friday afternoon after a good training session that morning. […]
Ear Falls OPP continue to search for a man missing in an area off Highway 804, about 13 km southwest of the town. Geoff McClain, 41, a former Ear Falls mayor and provincial Liberal candidate, was reported missing to police Saturday. The OPP’s Underwater Search and Recovery Unit and OPP […]
The OPP once again would like to remind the public to be skeptical of telemarketers soliciting money on behalf of charitable organizations and individuals who promise large monetary rewards for assisting them with bank transfers. The public also should be cautious of callers identifying themselves as representatives from financial institutions […]
At around 1:50 a.m. today, Fort Frances OPP officers were called to a disturbance at an apartment on the 200 block of Scott Street. The officers located two subjects who had been drinking and were known to police as being on probation. A 19-year-old of Fort Frances woman was arrested […]
Members of the OPP’s North West Region Emergency Response Team located and recovered the body of missing Red Lake man Friday around 2:30 p.m. John Haugland, 56, of Red Lake had been operating heavy equipment on Jan. 31 while constructing a winter road on Birch Lake. Police located Haugland’s body […]
Michel Maillé, Abitibi-Consolidated’s vice-president of Operations, Commercial Printing Papers, announced Tuesday a regional manager has been named for Northwestern Ontario. Doug Murray, who most recently has been general manager at Abitibi’s pulp and paper mill in Iroquois Falls, will be “working closely with the Fort Frances and Fort William mill […]
Around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Fort Frances OPP investigated a report of a pick-up truck in the ditch on the west side of the 1200 block of Idylwild Drive. Upon arrival, the officers located an intoxicated male who subsequently was arrested for impaired driving. A 39-year-old of Stanjikoming FN man […]
The Rainy River Future Development Corp. pitched a 42.8 percent increase in per capita fees—from $7 to $10—at the Rainy River District Municipal Association’s annual meeting Saturday in Bergland. Economic development officer Geoff Gillon highlighted several ways the money contributed by the RRDMA has been used to leverage a great […]
