Rainy Lake continued to rise over the weekend, reaching 338.227 m (1,109.67 ft) Monday morning. But with no rain in the forecast, the lake level is expected to crest soon. “I would say for sure this week,” noted Raimo Tyrvainen, energy and utilities co-ordinator for Abitibi-Consolidated here. Namakan Lake, which […]
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It seems Bill 140 won’t force residential tax rates to rise here–or cause cuts to the town’s 2001 budget–after all thanks to an education tax reduction. During a special meeting Thursday afternoon, council voted to keep tax ratios the same as legislated by Bill 140–and also received an indication from […]
Days before final approval of a new Customs facility here, the town has been faced with the option of purchasing the international bridge. The idea, brought forward by local lawyer Lawrence G. Phillips in a letter to council last month, caught the attention of Abitibi-Consolidated’s general manager Jim Gartshore, who […]
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. and Boise Cascade have reached a tentative agreement with Revenue Canada which, once finalized, will allow construction of the new customs and immigration facility here to go ahead. “We reached a tentative agreement on the issue of sterile-zone operating and that’s the last hurdle,” Jim Gartshore, general manager […]
The hunt for summer jobs is on, and the Human Resource Centre of Canada for Students here wants those looking for work to know its doors are open. The centre, located at 301 Scott St. (above the post office), will hold its official opening Friday, starting with a ribbon-cutting at […]
Town council held a special meeting at noon Thursday to decide the 2001 tax rates, with a hike in residential taxes likely to be the outcome. With Bill 140 legislating that commercial, industrial, and multi-residential taxes be lowered to a certain ratio, council was faced with lowering those with a […]
Tuesday evening the Fort Frances Times celebrated the creation of their brand new website with a launch party and open house. Originally created in 1996, the online edition was in need of some major changes according to Web Development Manager, Lincoln Dunn. “We had the chance to look at some […]
Two of the five gas stations in Fort Frances–Witherspoon’s One Stop and Sunset Shell–are up for sale. Citing retirement as the reason, both Mayor Glenn Witherspoon, owner of Witherspoon’s One Stop, and the Gustafson family, who own Sunset Shell, hope to get out of the business altogether. “You hit a […]
After wondering if the “chem-free” grad would be held at all earlier this month, there’s no question now that Fort High teens can party in a safe, sober setting here June 20. “It’s definitely a ‘go,’” said Diane Noonan, one of the organizers. “Service clubs and the business community have […]
Jeraldine Bjornson and Patrick Playfair have been a part of our town for the past eight years and on June 18 at La Place Rendezvous the community will have the chance to bid the couple a fond farewell. “We are planning on having a very casual get together to wish […]
The Fort Frances Museum will be holding a cemetery transcribing inventory project here Saturday under the direction of Art Gunnell of the Ontario Genealogical Society. The survey was organized in an effort to preserve Fort Frances history and collect information that will help in the writing of the 2003 Centennial […]
Writer and historian Neil McQuarrie is jumping in with both feet–and he couldn’t be happier. The Brandon, Man. resident temporarily has returned to the town where he grew up in order to collect information that will make his writing of the 2003 Centennial History Book a bit easier. “I am […]
