It may have been well below zero outside, but Kiwanis members had their hearts warmed last week when Kiwanian Irene Laing introduced Donna Lowey of Lowey’s Greenhouses as guest speaker at the club’s regular meeting. Lowey and her husband, Blair, are the owners of Lowey’s Greenhouse and Market Gardens. Their […]
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Fourteen local entrepreneurial women attended the first Women’s Business Network meeting back on Jan. 10 at the Coffee Landing Metro in downtown International Falls. The event was organized by Jenny Dougherty, business consultant for the local Small Business Development Center. The purpose of the network is to provide a time […]
The Fort Frances Area Tribal Health Services Inc. will be offering the Grief Recovery Outreach Program, which will run Tuesdays from 7-9 p.m. beginning Jan. 29. “I think it’s really important for us First Nations people to begin doing our recovery work with issues that are most important to us. […]
Two men have been fined $3,000 for illegally hunting and abandoning white-tailed deer. Stephen Whan, 37, of Cambridge and Douglas Johnson, 58, of Fort Frances were fined $500 each for hunting deer during the closed season and $1,000 each for abandoning meat suitable for food. They also are banned from […]
The Muskie girls’ volleyball teams are glad they won’t be returning to Dryden again after both the seniors and juniors were swept last Thursday in their last NorWOSSA away games of the season. The junior girls lost their first two sets by painfully close scores, falling 27-25 and 29-27, before […]
FORT FRANCES—Fort Frances Coun. John Albanese was re-elected chair of the Northwestern Health Unit’s board of health for a fifth-consecutive year during a meeting Friday in Dryden. Coun. Albanese, who’s sat on the board of health since 1989, said Monday that he’s looking forward to another year. “It’s going to […]
FORT FRANCES—A police investigation into missing funds at Fort Frances High School over a three-year period that led to a charge against head secretary Fawn Lindberg for theft over $5,000 has found the actual amount of funds missing from the school’s account exceeds $300,000. An information to obtain a production […]
While not yet making a financial commitment in the 2008 budget, Fort Frances council tentatively is supporting a possible agreement with FedNor that would boost the cash flow for economic development here. Stressing that the matter still is in the proposal stage, Geoff Gillon of the Rainy River Future Development […]
At its regular meeting last Tuesday night (Jan. 15), the Northwest Catholic District School Board discussed the Christmas Eve fire at St. Michael’s School that destroyed one classroom. Education director Mary Catherine Kelly stressed the board was thankful for the quick response by everyone involved. She noted the Fort Frances […]
FORT FRANCES—After much debate during a budget meeting Monday evening, residential property owners will be getting a voucher to dump one half-ton load at the landfill for free this year. Citing the appearance of some residents’ properties as the greatest source of complaints he heard from taxpayers last year, Mayor […]
The meatball and perogy benefit dinner for local couple David and Jennifer Marr and their infant son, Benjamin, is set to go this Friday at the Fort Frances High School cafeteria. It will run from 4:30 p.m. until at least 7 p.m. As previously reported in the Times, Benjamin was […]
FORT FRANCES—Parents, staff, and members of the public asked questions and voiced concerns last Wednesday night at Robert Moore School during an information session regarding construction of a new school there. But since the Rainy River District School Board still is in the early stages of planning a rebuild on […]
