Parents with children entering senior kindergarten in the fall here still will have the option of enrolling them in French Immersion. The Northwest Catholic District School Board on Saturday voted to run the program this fall—even at the current enrolment of 15 students. “The board was very clear that it’s […]
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After seeing the commodity price for hydro capped at 4.3 cents per kilowatt hour last year, Fort Frances Power Corp. customers, as well as other hydro users across Ontario, will see their electricity prices go up starting Thursday. The rate for residential, small business, and designated consumers who are currently […]
While rumours continue to swirl over the sale of the Voyageur Panel oriented strandboard plant in Barwick, the company said no deal has been confirmed yet. “There is not a new owner as of yet,” mill general manager Percy Champagne said late yesterday afternoon. “We have nothing to announce,” echoed […]
David Leskowski will win the Conservative party’s nomination for the new Thunder Bay-Rainy River riding by acclamation after Christine Hogarth, treasurer of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party, withdrew from the race. “Just a few days ago, she [Hogarth] advised our nomination committee that she would be stepping aside,” noted riding […]
A report released earlier this week by the Sierra Legal Defence Fund named the Abitibi-Consolidated pulp and paper mill in Fort Frances as one of the province’s “Dirty Dozen Polluters”—the worst violators of Ontario’s air and water pollution laws, according to the organization. The report, called “Cracking Down on Polluters,” […]
The Borderland Thunder have forced a Game 7 in Dryden on Saturday night after beating the Ice Dogs 5-1 here Thursday to even their SIJHL semi-final series at 3-3. The Thunder had trailed the series 3-1, splitting the first two games in Dryden but then losing the next two here […]
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 […]
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. […]
