After collecting storm damage reports over the last week, town council will decide tonight whether to go ahead and apply for disaster relief funding from the province. The town had been encouraging municipal departments, organizations, and residents to bring their damage reports to the Civic Centre in order to assess […]
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The Northwestern Health Unit posted Pither’s Point beach as “unsafe for swimming” early Friday afternoon due to high bacterial counts found during routine sampling. The beach will remain closed until satisfactory test results are obtained from continued sampling, the health unit said. The latest closure came just one day after […]
Specialists from the Ministry of the Environment, Abitibi-Consolidated, the Northwestern Health Unit, and the Town of Fort Frances were scheduled Friday morning to inspect the scene of yesterday’s effluent leak this morning. The effluent leaked out when an underground pipe carrying it from the mill to the lagoon north of […]
The Northwestern Health Unit has re-opened Pither’s Point beach after receiving water test results back Thursday morning. The results indicated the water no longer contains the high level of harmful bacteria which resulted in the beach being declared “unsafe for swimming” last Thursday. Weekly beach sampling will continue there throughout […]
Worried north-end residents were standing in their backyards late Thursday morning watching pungent brown water creep towards their houses while a fleet of contractors, Public Works staff, and Abitibi-Consolidated employees rushed to block the flow from two broken effluent pipes running in and out of the mill. The water was […]
The Human Resource Centre of Canada for Students here will close its doors for the summer this Friday (Aug. 10). That leaves only two days for students still hoping to make some money before school starts–and even those looking for something more permanent–to check out the jobs listed on the […]
Ask local sculptor Bob Morris how long it took him to carve any one of his pieces and he will answer “All my life.” Question the artist on where he was born and his reply is similarly ambiguous–so much so that you have to repeat the question to the curator […]
Thunder Bay singer/songwriter Rodney Brown will be in town Sunday night to play a concert at La Place Rendez-Vous with local musician Richard McKinnon. From all accounts, Brown is something of a legend in these parts–an artist who has brought a bit of Northwestern Ontario to the rest of the […]
After taking almost a week to prime the west wall of the Masonic Lodge on the corner of Scott Street and Portage Avenue, mural artist John Hood now is moving along quickly painting his project–a glimpse at turn-of-the-century Fort Frances. “It took about two days longer on the priming than […]
For the fourth year in a row, Donny Little will ride his bike into town to raise funds for, and promote awareness of, Brain Injury Services of Northern Ontario. A welcome barbecue to mark his arrival is slated Thursday from 4-7 p.m. in the Safeway parking lot. Everyone is invited […]
Work on the dialysis unit at La Verendrye hospital is going ahead at full-steam, with maintenance staff aiming to get done work there before month’s end. “Everything [is] coming in next week,” said Ed Cousineau, manager of bio-medical engineering, during a brief on-site tour yesterday. “By the third week in […]
Wednesday is Day 93 of the strike by CUPE #65 workers at the Association for Community Living here and there remains no sign of an agreement–or any talks. Bearing the heat, union members continue to picket ACL housing units on Hudson Drive and in front of the its offices on […]
