While the issue remains a hot topic among municipal councils and businesses alike, one area community has decided to go ahead with banning smoking in all enclosed public places as of Sept. 3. “It’s a significant issue but I believe there’s acceptance here in Ear Falls,” said Mayor Geoff McClain. […]
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The Fort Frances Public Library is hoping to get a consultant on board this summer to look into the feasibility of the some of the plans the library board unveiled to council at Monday night’s regular meeting. “We think we have a good blueprint here. Of course, it depends on […]
Town council has called a special meeting Thursday at 6 p.m. to discuss—and give the public a chance to see—the proposed La Verendrye Parkway riverfront renovation project. “First, our engineers will be presenting to the La Verendrye Parkway committee at noon that day, at which point the plans will be […]
Given its agreement with the soon-to-be defunct Northwest Ontario Recycle Association will expire at the end of June, Fort Frances is taking a step forward to finding a solution with a joint request for proposals. “I believe it gives us most of the options we’ve been talking about,” said Operations […]
The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.), which has supplied priests to area Catholic churches for 110 years, is leaving Fort Frances. “We would love to stay but we are missionaries,” Fr. David B. Perrin, provincial superior for the order of priests, said Sunday at St. Mary’s Church here. “We […]
Students and educational staff across the district are surfing the web, videoconferencing, and sharing information like never before now that the Rainy River District “Connect” project is up and running. After more than a year-and-a-half of building the wireless system which boosts Internet service to district schools, the equipment was […]
Given many municipalities’ refusal so far to come up with bylaws banning smoking in enclosed public places, the CEO and medical officer of health of the Northwestern Health Unit will be sending orders to regional restaurants and bars next month to eliminate second-hand cigarette smoke from their premises. “June 3 […]
Council agreed Monday night to a public relations expense of about $4,700 to go towards three different groups doing beautification projects here in the near future. The first of the projects is a flower bed surrounding the “Good Neighbors” sign at the west end of town. This is a new […]
Northwoods Gallery and Gifts is moving – upstairs that is. After months of renovations, owner/operator Connie Cuthbertson will unveil the second floor of their Scott Street store at a ribbon-cutting at noon on Thursday. “We’re moving upstairs. There is over 800 square feet that we are turning into a gallery […]
Complete with a live band and refreshments, the Rainy River Future Development Corp.’s annual general meeting here tomorrow night should be anything but dull. The public is invited to attend the meeting, which gets underway at 7 p.m. at Warp 9 on Scott Street. The first order of business is […]
Head librarian Margaret Sedgwick will give town council a glimpse of what the library board has planned for the future of the Fort Frances Public Library during Monday night’s regular meeting. “I’ll be presenting our strategic plan,” Sedgwick said Monday morning. “We made up our last one in 1994 and […]
Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. has received word the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care will provide a total grant of up to $688,026 to help cover renovation costs at La Verendrye hospital. “It’s definitely good news,” said Riverside CEO Wayne Woods said Friday morning. “We’ve had those projects before […]
