Duane Hicks Following a recommendation from the Community Services executive committee, town council agreed last night to name the soccer pitches at the St. Francis Sportsfield after the late councillor Struchan Gilson. In a report from Community Services manager George Bell, he noted that for some time discussion has occurred […]
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Duane Hicks Council will receive a request from a local resident to ban the feeding of deer within town limits at its regular meeting tonight. In correspondence with the town, John Nelson said that in the past four years, his Colonization Road West neighbourhood has seen at least four vehicle/deer […]
Staff Fort Frances OPP are advising the public that local teen Stephanie Robar, reported missing last week, has been located safe and sound. On Saturday, she walked into the Fort Saskatchewan RCMP detachment in Alberta. Robar, a 15-year-old Fort Frances High School student, hadn’t been seen here since last Monday […]
Press Release Be advised that Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. will be upgrading its telephone system at Rainycrest Long Term Care this Wednesday (Dec. 10) starting at 5 p.m. and lasting for roughly four hours. During the above-mentioned time period, the public may experience a “busy signal” when calling Rainycrest. […]
Staff The Northwest Catholic District School Board will hold both an inaugural meeting and regular one tomorrow starting at 9:30 a.m. at the St. Francis School library. During the inaugural meeting, there will be an election of a chair and vice-chair for the next year. Previously, Robert van Oort of […]
Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—With the Operations and Facilities division facing a cash crunch along with the rest of the town departments, the price of bag tags and tipping fees likely will be among the user fees to go up in the 2009 budget. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown informed […]
Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—Along with a property tax hike, Fort Frances residents can expect modest user fee increases in 2009. But non-residents could see even higher fees to use town facilities and services. During a special meeting of the committee of the whole Wednesday, councillors received the 2009 budget summary […]
Paige Desmond For youths who have grown up in the information age, using computers, digital cameras, and other technology comes as naturally as breathing. But the same is not true for previous generations, who were not born into a world where Internet in schools and iPods were the norm. Seniors […]
the OPP Police began their investigation yesterday of a missing 15-year-old female from Fort Frances. Stephanie Robar, a student at Fort Frances High School, was last seen Monday at 2:30 p.m. She is described at 5’4” tall, 120 pounds, with shoulder length straight blonde hair, a piercing on the right […]
Peggy Revell They may not be home for the holidays, but Canadian troops in Afghanistan will be getting a bit of the Christmas spirit from home thanks to care packages being put together by the local Legion ladies’ auxiliary. “It’s just nice to let them know that we’re thinking about […]
Paige Desmond It could be days before the cause is known of the explosion that blew panelling off the outside of the Atikokan generating station on Monday morning. The blast was caused by a fire which started in the coal gallery, at the roof of the building where coal is […]
Peggy Revell With the countdown to Christmas well underway, help still is needed to bring holiday cheer to children across the district through the annual “Adopt an Angel” program run by Family & Children’s Services here. “We’re kind of off to a bit of a slow start,” admitted Jacquee Loerzel […]
