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 […]
District News
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 […]
Two teens from Europe and one from “Down Under” are among five foreign students in the fifth month of their exchange program at Fort Frances High School, where they are enrolled in Grade 11. Valerie Romann, 16, who lives near Zurich, Switzerland, Cassie Jenkins, 16, from Sydney, Australia, and Svenja […]
A meeting to discuss the closure of the local French school here last Wednesday night drew no one from the local community. Classes have been suspended at the school since the 2004-05 school year when no children registered. The Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales advertised the meeting […]
Timberrrrrrrrrr . . . the economy of Northwestern Ontario is falling like a cut tree. That is what Northern Ontario Municipal Association president Michael Power said the message was from organizations like the Rainy River District Municipal Association at last year’s NOMA convention. “I had no idea at the annual […]
A 24-year-old Barwick man was arrested by Emo OPP officers shortly before 2 p.m. on Friday for failing to comply with conditions of a release document. When searching the subject subsequent to arrest, the officers found roughly 18 grams of suspect marijuana and 54 Oxycocet pills. The man was charged […]
U.S. forestry company Bowater Inc. is shutting down a pulp mill in Thunder Bay—a move that will put about 280 people out of work. The South Carolina-based company announced yesterday it is closing the kraft mill at the end of April as part of a streamlining in the wake of […]
