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The Ontario government is investing $2.6 million to improve St. Mary Catholic School to help working families in Fort Frances. This investment in the Northwest Catholic District School Board announced by Greg Rickford, MPP for Kenora – Rainy River, will support the creation of 69 student spaces as part of […]

The Ontario government is providing more than $2.7 million through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) to four projects in the Town of Fort Frances. This investment in recreation, tourism and transportation infrastructure will help boost economic growth, improve quality of life and build a strong, healthy community. “Supporting […]

A long-running collaborative effort is making a new push to spread word of its existence and get more books in the hands of students in the Rainy River District. The Rainy River District Library Co-operative is a partnership between several different organizations across the region and includes the Emo Public […]

Committee seeking members and volunteers to bring back festival this summer The Fort Frances Museum is working on bringing back ‘Culturama,’ a previously successful festival of cultures and ethnicities hosted in Fort Frances for many years. Culturama dates back to 1980. The festival was held annually over a weekend, usually […]

Residents of The Town of Fort Frances have been seeing more rats than usual over the past year, with most fingers pointing to the demolition of the mill as the main cause. Mark Pentney, owner and manager of Sunset country Pest Control, said since he’s took over the business in […]

Riverside Foundation for Health Care is excited to announce that the winner of the January Riverside 50/50 electronic raffle is Amanda Lalonde of Emo, ON with the winning ticket number O-5775889. Lalonde takes home $17,870, with the same amount going to the Foundation. The draw was made Monday, January 31 […]

(FORT FRANCES, ON) – On February 03, 2022, just after 3:00 p.m., the Rainy River District Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to an assault that had just occurred at a business on the 400 Block of Portage Avenue South, in the Town of Fort Frances. The accused had attended the address and […]

Along with the Fire Marshal of Ontario and other Fire Chiefs/Firefighters… I am pleading with all residents of the province to do more to prevent fires in their homes. We have lost 21 people in fires so far this year in Ontario! These deaths are preventable. We’ve lost mothers, fathers, […]

The Town of Fort Frances council approved a recommendation from the Citizen of the Year Committee’s terms of reference. This will give the committee the right to nominate eligible individuals for the Citizen of the Year should no eligible public nominations be received. This request came after the committee received […]

Council is expected to decide on a tax increase figure as part of the budget deliberations for 2022. Even though a tax increase seems inevitable at this stage, Town of Fort Frances treasurer Dawn Galusha proposed a 3.8 per cent increase as a starting point. The municipal tax rate increase in 2021 […]

(Fort Frances, ON) – On January 22, 2022, at approximately 10:00 a.m. members of the Rainy River District Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop in the Town of Fort Frances. The traffic stop led to the arrest of the driver and two other occupants of the motor vehicle. […]

Believe it or not, Mother Nature costs the town more than half a million dollars in the annual budget for snow removal, snow plowing, salting and sanding and maintaining the sidewalks. Travis Rob, Operations and Facilities manager, said there are two cost categories for the Operations and Facilities budget, one […]