After a wet night on Lake of the Woods, a local boater was found safe on an island. Police were notified Sunday that there was a missing boater—overdue from the previous night. Police, friends and family, and various volunteers conducted an immediate search. The missing 25-year-old man eventually was located […]
District News
There are a lot of ways for people to spend their summer vacations. By now, most university students will be working somewhere—showing up every day to face the same sort of routine. But there’s a group of seven young adults who are turning their summer into the adventure of a […]
The Town of Fort Frances will be a part of the “Border Sister Cities Task Force” first announced by International Falls city council last week. Council voted in favour of the partnership at its meeting here this past Monday night after Mayor Dan Onichuk brought forward a motion to get […]
The Fun in the Sun committee has asked the Town of Fort Frances to cover the July 1 events under its insurance policy, but whether the town will be able to help them remains to be seen. In a letter council received at its meeting Monday night, FITS chair Paul […]
A road-side check by Ministry of Natural Resources and OPP officers found 94 percent of anglers complying with the rules. The officers spoke to 933 non-resident anglers on Highway 502, south of Dryden, on June 3. Conservation officers laid 21 charges for over-limits of fish and fish packaging violations, and […]
Al McTavish of Devlin and Todd and Donna Calder of Fort Frances won the $100 up for grabs May 31 and June 1, respectively, in the Rainy River District Mutual Aid Association’s weekly cash calendar draw. Winning $30 for May 29-June 4 were Bernice Boivin (Fort Frances), Murray and Carol […]
Riverside Foundation for Health Care is planning another giant used furniture sale in September and is looking for used furniture. A similar event was held in 2002 and raised more than $5,000 for district health care. “The community really supported our first giant used furniture sale by donating items, selling […]
The Rainy River District School Board on Tuesday night approved both four-year tentative settlements it had reached with local elementary and secondary teachers’ unions. Both are retroactive to Sept. 1, 2004. “Everyone worked hard and co-operatively towards reaching this collective agreement,” said Sharon Preston, president of the local Elementary Teachers’ […]
After several months of planning and hard work, Family and Children’s Services of the District of Rainy River is celebrating with a grand opening. The event is scheduled for tomorrow (June 1), with opening ceremonies kicking off at 3 p.m. outside the front door at 240 First St. E. (the […]
Abitibi-Consolidated wants to trim its costs to the point where its North American mills are in the first or second cost quartile of the industry and at least one Ontario mill doesn’t meet that test, company officials said yesterday. The forestry company wants to cut $175 million from its operations […]
The local Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario last Thursday unanimously approved the tentative agreement recently negotiated with the Rainy River District School Board. The board will vote on this agreement at its regular board meeting tomorrow night (June 7). Once the provincial framework was in place, the local public board […]
Fort Frances OPP is asking the public for help in solving a theft. Sometime during the early-morning hours of last Thursday (June 2), suspects entered a residence on the 700 block of Second Street West. Once inside, the culprits removed a Toshiba laptop computer and a purse. Anyone with information […]
