The Tri-Force Drug Unit has nabbed a Fort Frances man in connection with a $2-million drug bust last month, reducing the number of outstanding arrest warrants to three. OPP Det. Sgt. John Horne said Tuesday that Patrick Colfer was arrested and charged last week with conspiracy to import controlled substances […]
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A five-day gambling survey by phone being conducted by a University of Manitoba professor ended Tuesday, seeing a good response from women across Northwestern Ontario. “We haven’t sorted the calls by postal code yet but we certainly had some from Fort Frances,” said Prof. Ruth Berry of the Family Studies […]
NDP leader and local MPP Howard Hampton charged the Conservative government’s economic statement released yesterday is a feeble gesture at a time when Ontario’s economy needs bold and new ideas. “Everybody but the Conservatives realizes the world has changed,” Hampton said. “But they persist with their dead-end policy of tax […]
Plenty has changed since Malcolm MacLeod arrived in Canada in 1924. Everything except the fact that every single day, he walks and walks—and walks. MacLeod was among a shipment of about 200 young European men on board a ship that brought them to Canadian shores. They were among hundreds sought […]
They say the focus of any minor hockey association in Canada is to teach the game and stress hard work over wins and losses. But for the long-running and successful Emo/Devlin/Barwick Minor Hockey Association, players and parents are faced with the extra challenge of travelling fair distances just to get […]
Hallowe’en has come and gone like a ghost out of the corner of your eye, but the impression remains that local efforts once again were successful to ensure youngsters had a good time. “I talked to a few people [Thursday] and they seemed impressed with the ‘Scott Street Scare,’ and […]
Finance minister Jim Flaherty yesterday announced the Ontario government is on track to balance this year’s budget—despite recent economic pressures—but that tough choices will need to be made in the future. “This government will not surrender the hard-won gains that have restored Ontario to prosperity,” said Flaherty. “I want to […]
Fresh off last week’s announcement that Fort Frances will be one of the sites for CBC’s “Hockey Day in Canada” telecast Jan. 5, the local minor hockey association will be discussing preparation plans. FFMHA president Lynn Kellar said the board meeting Nov. 12 will include talks to organize a “jamboree” […]
Northwestern Health Unit staff and municipal councils across the region will get the results of its much anticipated operational review starting this week. The review, done at the request of municipal governments across the northwest to determine whether the health unit has been operated efficiently, will be revealed to its […]
The 22-year-old man charged with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of local 16-year-old male is slated to appear in court here next Monday. Joseph Francis Terriault was arrested and charged July 31, after Nathan Edward Macdonald was found severely wounded around 3 a.m. in the backyard of […]
While ghouls and ghosts will be a common sight on the streets Wednesday evening, “Operation Pumpkin” once again will be on the lookout for the real monsters—vandals and thieves—on “Gate Night.” “‘Operation Pumpkin’ is where members of the police and volunteers from the community work together to keep an eye […]
The local public school board still doesn’t know when the province-wide grade 10 literacy test will be re-scheduled. “We’ve not heard any news of the grade 10 literacy testing,” said Warren Hoshizaki, director of education for the Rainy River District School Board. In the interim, the board, including a literacy […]
