Prospective home buyers in the area now have greater access to a service that may soon be considered indispensable–professional home inspection. Robert Peters, a local contractor and certified building inspector, has been hired by New Jersey-based home inspection company HouseMaster to inspect properties in the Fort Frances, Atikokan, Rainy River […]
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Organizers of the Fort Frances Little Theatre have taken steps towards solving a potential shortage of actors for their fall production: they will be mounting a play that only has two characters. Auditions for “The Gin Game,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy by D.L. Coburn, will take place Thursday, Aug. […]
The fundraising drive is still on for the United Native Friendship Centre’s “canoe-athon” to improve the youth drop-in centre. U.N.F.C youth workers Brad Herbert, R.J. Comeau, Darwin Woods and a fourth volunteer will launch just south of the dam and canoe from Fort Frances to Rainy River, including the Manitou […]
Laboratory examinations of five soil samples taken from backyards that were covered in effluent when an underground pipe was broken two weeks ago have found no sign of health-hazardous contents. Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. samples were tested by Envirotest Laboratories and have already been returned and interpreted by a Ministry of Health […]
As the U.S. government ponders a recommendation from the Department of Commerce to impose a 19.3 percent duty on Canadian softwood lumber the impending decision is beginning to have a ripple effect here. As area sawmills’, including Manitou Forest Products, Nickel Lake Lumber and Atikokan Forest Products, wait for the […]
The Fort Frances branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce will be undergoing some changes this fall in a bid to modernize the building. “We are having some major renovations to the branch, it involves total restoration of the interior to totally modernize the branch,” explained Jeff Romanyshyn, CIBC’s […]
In a chain-reaction, a number of businesses along Scott Street have re-located. Three local businesses moving this month are just the latest to shuffle in search of more space and a better location. Wilson’s office supplies has been the latest store to shift to a new location, moving from its […]
A week before classes resume, the Fort Frances High School will be open tomorrow through Thursday for new and returning students to pick up their timetables and pay registration fees. All returning students entering grades 11, 12 and OAC are asked to register tomorrow, Aug. 21 between 8:30 a.m. and […]
A working group met at 11 a.m. today to discuss the first results of tests on the effluent that flooded several north-end backyards last week. The group, which included representatives from the town, Abitibi-Consolidated Inc., Moncrief Construction, the Northwestern Health Unit, the Ministry of the Environment, insurers, adjusters, and residents, […]
Some positive lab tests have come back indicating the water at Pither’s Point beach is now safe but local health officials will hold off on opening it to swimmers until more tests come back just to be certain. “We got back results from Friday and they were all right and […]
It will be at least another day before laboratory tests of the effluent leak that covered some residents’ lawns in the north end of town last week produce results. Although some soil test results were sent back to the Ministry of the Environment on Thursday, the bulk of them are […]
A number of north-end residents remain confused and frustrated as contradictory information flows in about what exactly was in the mill effluent that flooded their backyards last Thursday morning. Residents who own homes on the south side of Eighth Street between Walker and Cornwall Avenues met Tuesday night to compare […]
