In preparation for their post-secondary education, Fort High students will get a chance to learn about what’s out there for them at the Ontario college tour Friday and university one Monday. And if and when students do decide, they’ll all be applying to schools a little differently this year–through the […]
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The crowds, loud music, and potential drama for an exciting finish all were under the big tent Sunday for the final five weigh-ins of the third-annual Rainy River walleye tournament. Unfortunately, the fish were not. The top two boats from the first day Saturday failed to catch any fish on […]
“Build it and they will come,” an oft-repeated catch-phrase of the town’s economic development officer, was emphasized by Fort Frances CAO Bill Naturkach upon his return from the annual “Northern Networks” trade conference in Green Bay, Wis. last week. The conference highlighted several economic development initiatives, among them the idea […]
Canadian Blood Services (CBS) resumes its annual Northwestern Ontario fall tour this week with two mobile blood donor clinics at Fort Frances High School. The clinics will be held Wednesday, Sept. 26 and again Thursday, Sept. 27. “Canadians have shown an incredible outpouring of support in response to the recent […]
Plans to proceed with the purchase of a new, state-of-the-art computer system for the Civic Centre were quashed by town council Monday night. With the vote ending in a 3-3 tie (Coun. Struchan Gilson was absent from the meeting), a proposal to purchase hardware, software, and whatever else is needed […]
After still not selling all the tour de Fort “Encore” series vouchers at Saturday night’s Barra MacNeils concert here, they will be on sale again all this week. “People always ask us, ‘When are you selling tickets?’ The fact that we’re doing it all week long is really more convenient,” […]
Town council is expected to pass a bylaw at Monday night’s regular meeting that will allow Canada Safeway here to make an entrance on the east side of its parking lot beside the gas station. Safeway made the request to improve traffic flow in and out of the gas station. […]
Grade 10 students across the province will be writing the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test next month, but this year they’re required to pass it to graduate. That’s the message Fort Frances High School wants to stress to parents when it hosts a special information meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. […]
Youth violence will be the focus of the local Community Policing Committee’s conference slated tonight and tomorrow at La Place Rendez-Vous. “Just from the things that go on in our community, the issues around youth violence, we put together the School Violence Prevention Team, a sub-committee of the CPC, which […]
District residents can dispose of household hazardous waste tomorrow in Emo in what organizers hope will become an annual collection. The hazardous waste day–organized by the Rainy River First Nation’s Watershed Program and the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition–will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Emo municipal […]
Christmas will be coming here early this year as the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual trade show gets underway tomorrow at the Memorial Sports Centre. “There’s lot going on. We’re very, very excited,” Chamber co-ordinator Dawn Booth said this morning. “There’s going to be over 50 exhibitors. And we […]
Doug Maki’s first-degree murder trial, which was slated to begin here Monday, is going to be delayed, Crown Attorney Robert “Buster” Young confirmed Thursday morning. “There’s been some new expert evidence generated by the Crown, the police actually, that we have to consider,” he noted from Atikokan, adding the jury […]
