Backus Auditorium in International Falls will be a busy place in the weeks ahead with a host of concerts and events aimed at raising money to keep the facility open. Margarett Patnode, spokeswoman for “Citizens for Backus-AB,” said last week the group is eagerly working to complete grant applications as […]
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With winter—and ’flu season—on its way, the province-wide influenza immunization promotion has begun and the Northwestern Health Unit once again will hold its free public clinics starting next week. “We had a shipment with approximately 7,000 doses arrive last week,” said Cindy McKinnon, the public health nurse heading up this […]
Town residents could see digital cell phone service here in the near future, Doug McCaig of Fort Frances Network Services said during Tuesday night’s regular council meeting. Using the tower outside Robert Moore School, this expanded service would mean more options for cellular phone customers, who’ve only had the option […]
The owner of a local sawmill said he doesn’t want hand-outs from Ottawa, he wants the softwood lumber dispute with the United States resolved. Kendal Lundy, president and owner of Nickel Lake Lumber, about 20 km east of Fort Frances, was not impressed by the $246.5-million aid package announced last […]
Dr. Pete Sarsfield said he’s preparing to take the hard line with area business owners who don’t have their customers “butt out.” “I was hoping we’d be ready by Oct. 1. or even Sept. 1, but right now, I’d say by mid-November or Dec. 31,” the CEO and chief medical […]
Town residents could see digital cell phone service here in the near future, Doug McCaig of Fort Frances Network Services said during Tuesday night’s regular council meeting. Using the tower outside Robert Moore School, this expanded service would mean more options for cellular phone customers, who’ve only had the option […]
Thanks to a last-minute plea from the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship committee, the town may alter Phase II of the La Verendrye Parkway waterfront development project to be more accommodating to the annual derby. The contentious aspect of the renovation plans is a horseshoe-shaped “green space”—an island consisting of […]
A topic of some discussion at the Sept. 23 council meeting, the guidelines for developmental fill will be discussed by councillors Monday. “The town has projects that require excavation and the disposal of dirt, and if someone is building a new business, for instance, they can take advantage of getting […]
Fort Frances Mayor Glenn Witherspoon, CAO Bill Naturkach, economic development officer Geoff Gillon, and Bruce Caldwell of the economic development advisory committee will attend the ninth-annual “Northern Networks” trade conference next week in Baraboo, Wis. “We’ve hosted it before, I’ve been to it before, and every year it certainly gives […]
Adult education classes at Fort Frances High School will be put on hold for a semester after only a handful of people signed up Thursday night. Classes were slated to begin Tuesday (Oct. 15), but program organizer Mark Kowalchuk said only a marginal number of people had signed up so […]
For their final event of the year, the Rainy Lake Multicultural Association is bringing musical group “Tanglefoot” to the Legion here next Wednesday evening. And there’s still plenty of tickets available at the Treasure Chest (338 Scott St.), said concert co-organizer Bev Kotnik. “They’re going kind of slow, but that’s […]
The School Violence Prevention Team at Fort High got a pat on the back Wednesday as Fort Frances OPP S/Sgt. Hugh Dennis presented it with an award for excellence in crime control. “This group started as an offshoot of the Community Policing Committee and started to address the problem of […]
