The Fort Frances Nursery School will find out this week whether it can continue with plans to build a room on to the expanded J.W. Walker School. The Rainy River District School Board will discuss the nursery school’s plan as part of its regular monthly meeting Tuesday starting at 7 […]
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The Fine Line Art Gallery will hold its eighth year-end open house this Friday with “Music in the Gallery.” The evening starts at 7 p.m. and will feature the music of the Borderland Ensemble. “Everybody really enjoys themselves when we have this,” said Jean Richards, a partner in the art […]
The year 1926 saw Fort Frances town council passing a bylaw to deal with “the congested traffic on main streets.” Regulations included that “. . . no vehicle shall stop with its left side to the curb . . . horses must stand parallel to the curb . . . […]
Buyers in the River Walk condominium project will have their first look at their new homes Saturday at a private viewing of the construction site. “There will be a viewing of the project this Saturday by invitation only,” Fort Frances CAO Bill Naturkach said Monday morning. Buyers of the pre-sold […]
The public is invited to attend an open house Wednesday hosted by the “Re-Inventing Fort Frances” committee and Winnipeg-based consultants Hilderman, Thomas, Frank and Cram (HTFC). “This is a plan for the community. We want to hear what they have to say,” said committee chair Susan Bodnarchuk. “Not only will […]
The OPP is looking for more First Nation recruits and the Mentoring for Aboriginal People (MAP) program is a starting point, with a session planned Monday night at the Seven Generations Educational Institute at Couchiching. The MAP program is a training and information session designed to assist people interested in […]
Despite the chill in the air, it didn’t stop trick-or-treaters on their hunt for goodies yesterday evening as more than 1,200 kids went door-to-door for the “Scott Street Scare.” “Almost all the stores ran out of candy,” said Sandra McNay, owner of Masquerade and organizer of the fifth-annual event. “We […]
The Fort Frances Museum will be rolling in cash next week as it hosts a new exhibit on Canadian currency. The travelling exhibit is from the Canadian Currency Museum, owned by the Bank of Canada, and will be arriving from Kenora sometime this week. “It is all about the colour […]
The drive to build a skate park here by next summer is moving full-speed ahead as multiple committees were struck up at the project’s second meeting Tuesday night. “The response has been overwhelming. We had kids come out that want to be involved in the organizing of things, and about […]
Students in grades six-eight at Robert Moore will continue to help out their community this school year as the second executive of the Kiwanis Builders’ Club was sworn in there last Wednesday night. Dr. Bob Lidkea of the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club led the meeting and introduced the new executive, […]
The fate of the Sunset Country Snowmobile Club rests in the hands of Old Man Winter. So says club president Rick Socholotuk, who will join a legion of snowmachine enthusiasts in praying for enough snow this winter that will help preserve the area’s 300-plus km network of snowmobile trails. “Another […]
The trial of Don Smith, a Woodyatt man accused of creating and distributing obscene material in October, 2000, began at the Fort Frances Courthouse on Monday. Smith is facing five charges, including two counts of making videotapes featuring undue exploitation of sex and violence, one count of possessing similar material […]
