It looks like town residents will be paying $1 a bag to have their garbage picked up starting later this spring after council agreed to include it as part of the 2004 budget during a special meeting last night. While the bylaw to implement “bag tags” effective May 31 has […]
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Fort Frances residents now may be facing a 15.25 percent property tax increase for 2004, not 18-20 percent as previously believed, as the town continues to crunch numbers. Treasurer Peggy Dupuis noted during a special committee of the whole meeting last night that as the budget currently stands, residential, multi-residential, […]
It looks like town residents will be paying $1 a bag to have their garbage picked up starting later this spring after council agreed to include it as part of the 2004 budget during a special meeting Wednesday night. While the bylaw to implement “bag tags” effective May 31 has […]
Fort Frances residents now may be facing a 15.25 percent property tax increase for 2004, not 18-20 percent as previously believed, as the town continues to crunch numbers. Treasurer Peggy Dupuis noted during a special committee of the whole meeting Wednesday night that as the budget currently stands, residential, multi-residential, […]
Following a start-up meeting with contractors, engineers, and hospital staff here Thursday, the $12.2-million Phase IV renovations at La Verendrye hospital should be underway next month. But the project isn’t going to be without its inconveniences to staff and patients alike, Wayne Woods, CEO of Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc., […]
Among the hundreds of items on the proposed new user fee schedule before town council as part of the 2004 budget, one that will be an additional cost to all Fort Frances homeowners is the 23 percent jump in water and sewer rates, which will be retroactive to Jan. 1. […]
Town council agreed to the terms of reference for the Traffic Safety Committee, as well as an ad hoc sub-committee to address public transportation, at Monday night’s meeting. A follow-up to discussions at the March 10 council meeting, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown recommended the sub-committee: •consist of two […]
Fort Frances OPP will be offering the D.A.R.E. program at the Grade 3 level as a pilot project beginning next month to see how young students respond to it. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program currently is offered at the Grade 6 and Grade 10 levels. “We teach them how […]
While they are not part and parcel of the proposed user fee schedule town council gave first and second reading to Monday night, “bag tags” for residential garbage pick-up are coming down the pipeline—possibly by May 31. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said Monday that while “bag tags” will […]
While the 2004 user fee schedule went through first and second readings last night, with the likelihood council will pass it March 31, an amendment will mean local swim clubs won’t be seeing the 100 percent hike they thought they were. Council decided to make the amendment last night after […]
Two former mayors won the Liberal nominations in the two new Northwestern Ontario ridings of Thunder Bay-Rainy River and Kenora over the weekend. Former Thunder Bay mayor Ken Boshcoff beat out Don Paterson for the Liberal nomination in Thunder Bay-Rainy River what the party is calling “a very close race.”^While […]
Council will vote tonight on whether to adopt a new user fee schedule that will account for about $180,000 in extra revenue to help cover the town’s 2004 budget deficit. Coun. Rick Wiedenhoeft said a “tremendous amount” of work by council and management has gone into revising the user fee […]
