the OPP Kenora OPP officers, including members of the Highway Safety Division, responded to a motor vehicle collision yesterday on Highway 17. The collision, involving a westbound tractor-trailer unit and an eastbound vehicle, occurred around 5:30 p.m. just west of Clearwater Bay. The driver of the motor vehicle was taken […]
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Duane Hicks Road reconstruction, an aviation fuel truck, and a new grader are among the items council will be keeping in the 2009 capital budget while coffee room upgrades, a heated rink shack, and surface treatment for several outlying roads have been left on the cutting room floor. In the […]
Duane Hicks The land claim agreement finalized in 2005 between Rainy River First Nations, the province, and the federal government was a historic event and a cause for celebration. But it also may end up causing serious headaches for district municipalities down the road if senior government doesn’t provide better […]
Peggy Revell The family of local resident Linda Starling is looking for support from the community after she was diagnosed with aplastic anemia this past fall. It’s a fairly rare illness, explained Linda’s husband, Dave, which he described as a “cousin” to leukemia, where the body stops producing new blood […]
Press Release Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. has a “Visiting Policy” established to ensure patients are able to receive proper care in each of its facilities. “The policy is in place to allow our patients to rest, receive treatment, and recuperate,” explained Lori Maki, vice-president, Clinical Services. “For this reason, […]
Duane Hicks The Town of Fort Frances made another attempt to rally support for improved access to the local Ontario Tourist Information Centre on Saturday during the Rainy River District Municipal Association’s annual general meeting in Atikokan. Fort Frances CAO Mark McCaig, who brought the issue forward during the business […]
Duane Hicks With the repair or replacement of the fuel storage tank at the Sorting Gap Marina remaining a necessary item on the town’s capital budget for 2009, council continues to debate whether it should stay in the business of selling gas to boaters there. At Monday’s budget meeting, Community […]
Duane Hicks While it’s too early in the budget to know how much of a levy increase Fort Frances taxpayers will be facing in 2009, town council is looking to find savings wherever they can. As such, one area that came up again at Monday’s budget meeting was reductions in […]
Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—How much councillors are paid to attend meetings, and which meetings qualify as out-of-town ones and which don’t, are subjects that will be reviewed in the next few months in a new subcommittee headed by Mayor Roy Avis. During a special committee of the whole meeting Monday, […]
Press Release The Fort Frances OPP detachment continues to investigate the following unsolved crimes. OPP officers were notified of a theft that occurred in the parking lot near Timberwolf Lodge Road, on Highway 502 about 40 km north of Highway 11, sometime between Dec. 10 and the early-morning hours of […]
Sheri Stamarski “Without vision the people perish.” This idea put forth in 1897 had vision. The vision was practical, forthright, and a brave venture. Those who caught the vision could not have known how far-reaching their organization, to be known as the Women’s Institute, would be in influencing better homemaking […]
Peggy Revell While still in their preliminary stages, two studies have been giving a clearer picture of the sturgeon population in both the Namakan reservoir and Namakan River. “First and foremost, we’re learning new information about a fish population we knew absolutely nothing about going into this,” explained Darryl McLeod, […]
