With news Friday that the Ministry of Energy will not give Fort Frances residents the benefit of the province-wide freeze on the price of electricity purchased on the spot market, NDP leader and local MPP Howard Hampton said he wasn’t surprised by the decision. “This is unfair for the people […]
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The Rainy River District School Board will be holding its regular monthly meeting tonight at the North Star Community School in Atikokan at 7 p.m. (EST). On the agenda is a proposal to support the initiatives of a northwestern school board consortium determined to make access to the Ontario Research […]
With a team of volunteers trained and ready to help, the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau opened its doors yesterday to assist low-income families, the disabled, and elderly file their taxes. “We didn’t receive our income tax packages from the CCRA [Canada Customs and Revenue Agency] yet, but people can bring […]
Visitor access has been restricted at the Continuing Care Unit at La Verendrye hospital here after some individuals were identified as having a gastrointenstinal virus there. “We haven’t got the lab report back, but the symptoms are concurrent with the Norwalk or a Norwalk-like virus,” public health inspector Brian Norris […]
For the third year in a row, the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is looking to brighten up the stretch of King’s Highway from the cemetery to Central Avenue with flowers this summer. But making the town a little more colourful can be costly, and so the Chamber is looking […]
The Town of Fort Frances announced yesterday that the government of Ontario has decided not to give town residents the benefit of the province-wide freeze on the price of electricity purchased on the spot market. “The Government felt that because our residents get some benefit from the mill contract, that […]
A single vehicle accident occurred on Highway 11 three kilometres, east of the 502 turn off at Devlin, yesterday morning. The single occupant, a 32 year-old Fort Frances woman, escaped with minor injuries but was transported to hospital by ambulance. She was traveling west bound on Highway 11 when she […]
You’ve heard of loonie? A toonie? What about a “Centenio?” Well you will, if you live in Fort Frances, as that’s what the Chamber of Commerce has decided to call the special $3 coin that’s been issued for the town’s centennial. The name, dreamed up by Trisha Mauro, a former […]
High school teachers in Fort Frances, Rainy River, and Atikokan began the first phase of strike action this week after contract talks with the Rainy River District School Board collapsed last Thursday. “Sanctions have begun,” said Brian Church, president of the bargaining unit for the local Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ […]
With a final report turned over to the town, and the hiring of a co-ordinator and formation of a new committee pending council approval, “exciting news” has come about indicating the “Re-Inventing Fort Frances” project can keep heading in the planned direction. “It’s exciting news,” Susan Bodnarchuk, chair of the […]
Local residents are encouraged to offer their input regarding options for the future space requirements of the Fort Frances Public Library at a public meeting slated Thursday, March 6 at 7 p.m. upstairs in the museum. The meeting comes on the heels of the preliminary findings of John Stephenson of […]
While there may been slightly fewer people in attendance, and slightly less money raised, organizers still are calling the “Rockin’ with Riverside” fundraiser dinner here Saturday night a “number-one hit.” “We thought it was a success. With everything else that’s been going on, we were a little concerned,” said Joan […]
