After a successful first run last spring, the “Mother Goose” early literacy program will resume at the Fort Frances Public Library starting this Thursday at 10 a.m. A 10-week session for children up to two years of age and their parents, there’s still some openings for those who want to […]
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The Northwest Catholic District School Board will hold its monthly meeting today at 7 p.m. via videoconference and one of the issues on the agenda is access to ORION. The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network is a provincial initiative to establish a high-speed research network across the province linking […]
The annual “Community Chest” benefit dinner at La Place Rendez-Vous last night looks like it was another rousing success, bringing in about $14,100. “I think things went extremely well,” said Georges Blanc, who helped organize the dinner as both co-owner of the Rendez-Vous and a member of the local Knights […]
The Health Board Appeal and Review Board will decide by late March or early April if the orders and fines being issued by the Northwestern Health Unit to area businesses for failing to comply with a smoking ban must be obeyed. The health unit began issuing cease-and-desist orders in January, […]
Sights and sounds of the ’50s will flood the banquet room at the Red Dog Inn next Saturday (Feb. 22) as the Riverside Foundation for Health Care holds its sixth-annual fundraiser dinner. But those who want to wear their poodle skirts—and dungarees and motorcycle jackets—for an evening and relive the […]
Noted author, historian, and journalist Gwynne Dyer shared his thoughts regarding the pending war in Iraq with Fort High students packed into the Townshend Theatre on Thursday afternoon. Dyer made a 90-minute stop here during a busy tour that took him from International Falls to Rainy River to Fort Frances […]
The deadline may be this Saturday, but the challenge is on. Following a deluge of responses from Thunder Bay residents to name the local $3 centennial coin, the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce wants to hear what residents here think it should be called. “We’ve had a wonderful response, the […]
The new Borderland Reads International Book Club has chosen its book—and it’s Canadian. The club selected “The Stone Diaries” by Carol Shields, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 and the Governor General’s Award for fiction in 1993, and also was nominated for the 1993 Booker Prize. “The main reason […]
Although the town still needs final approval from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, council passed bylaws during Monday night’s regular meeting to adopt the Community Improvement Plan and designate project areas here. “We’ll let the project move ahead and lay the groundwork out, and then fill in the […]
With the province asking all power companies in the province to declare whether or not they’re “for-profit” or “not-for-profit” as a condition of Bill 210, the Fort Frances Power Corp. will be sticking to the former upon the request of FFPC president and CEO Mark McCaig. More a formality than […]
Though it’s called high-speed Internet, the speed in which the service is coming to Fort Frances is anything but fast. For several years, the possibility of getting the service here has been teasing residents to the point of disbelief. Like the boy who cried “wolf,” many won’t believe it until […]
Whether you’ve been around town for a year or a century, an evening of “music, song, and dance” awaits you at the Townshend Theatre here this Thursday and Friday night. The Rainy River District Festival Association is staging a “Celebration of 100 years of the performing arts” as part of […]
