As the town and local businesses race for high-speed Internet access, the Rainy River District School Board has taken the bull by the horns and invested in its own infrastructure. Over the weekend, a 120-foot communications tower was erected at Robert Moore School here with Northwest ConX. Along with towers […]
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Representatives of all Treaty #3 First Nations, together with Canadian and U.S. war veterans, gathered at the Nanicost pow-wow grounds here Tuesday morning to honour those who died in last week’s terrorist attacks. “We are here to pray for those people and what has happened in New York City,” said […]
After a successful campaign supporting the Fort Frances Friends of Animals as their annual charity this year, employees at the local Canada Safeway store will wait a while before picking one for 2002. “We haven’t started any of that yet,” trainee manager Hans Holland said Tuesday. “We usually get the […]
Following a minute of silence, bells will ring worldwide tomorrow at noon to mark the United Nations’ 20th-annual “A Peal for Peace.” Although no formal ceremony has been organized in Fort Frances this year, local residents are encouraged to remember the observation at noon tomorrow. “Wherever you are, whatever you […]
CUPE Local #65 representatives and Fort Frances and District Association for Community Living administrators are returning to the bargaining table Tuesay after the province announced funding for the organization. On Friday, Community and Social Services minister John Baird announced the ACL here will receive $124,960 to enhance services and attract […]
Couchiching resident Tom Bruyere was walking along River Road to Fort Frances on Friday to raise money to help maintain the new hemodialysis unit now up and running at La Verendrye hospital here. Bruyere, who discovered he had diabetes 28 years ago, was scheduled to walk about 20 miles on […]
With frightening images of planes crashing into the World Trade Center and reports of thousands of lost lives dominating the media, schools–including some here–are prepared to deal with any impact of Tuesday’s catastrophic events on students. At schools under the Northwest Catholic District School Board, including St. Michael’s and St. […]
While yesterday’s terrorist attacks made their biggest impacts in New York City and Washington, D.C., the aftermath has affected lives here–especially if you were planning to fly somewhere or drive across the U.S. border. And things still weren’t back to normal as of this morning. Despite some media reports yesterday, […]
In the Fort Frances Times newsroom, staff stood stupefied as a second plane flew into the second of the “twin towers” that make up the World Trade Center in New York City. That’s when everyone realized this disaster was not human error. Like millions of others, we watched as the […]
Fort Frances council has been pushing the buttons to have a remand centre built here and Monday night agreed to put a proposal together for the facility. The town will put together a request for proposal in search of a consultant to put together a package in their bid for […]
They shook New York, they shook the U.S., they shook the world. The acts of terrorism, which included the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City yesterday morning, also have shaken local residents. Residents here rushed to check on relatives and friends travelling in, or living in, […]
Local Métis will gather for a meeting about a new provincial moose hunting regime Tuesday night at the Royal Canadian Legion here. Dubbed a “Hunting Rights Rendezvous,” the meeting will feature an hour of food, music, and fellowship at 6 p.m., followed by a discussion of aboriginal hunting rights. Experts […]
