The Fort Frances Municipal Airport will get a $1,152,366 injection for safety improvements. “Our [Airport Capital Assistance Program] funding was approved for our application for renovation of Runway 12-30,” Operations and Facilities manager Pat Hickerson told town council Monday night. Now a tender will be issued for the project, with […]
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Tess Coish and Kelly Calder want to let the local businesses that participated in the sale of Easter Seal eggs this year know how grateful they are for their support. “The campaign did get off to a slow start,” Coish admitted. “But the businesses we talked to were just great. […]
With an exhibit of her work now on display at the Fort Frances Museum, local artist Karen Wilde is hoping people take the time to stop in and see the paintings she’s spent the last three years creating. “All of my paintings are of someplace that I have visited or […]
In a last-minute effort to save the “chem-free” grad party usually organized by Fort High teachers, local residents Diane Noonan and Linda Steele are hoping volunteers will attend a meeting here Thursday night. “It’s an important, positive message to send out to the kids. Graduation is an important day in […]
Fort Frances will be flooded with municipal, provincial, and federal leaders as the town hosts the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association’s 55th-annual general meeting May 3-5. Besides mayors, reeves, and councillors from municipalities across Northwestern Ontario, MPs and MPPs will be attending to discuss education, health care, infrastructure, and development in […]
Jam21.net owner Dave Ashworth claims to be a step closer to providing high-speed Internet access that’s been so elusive to eager local residents and businesses. Ashworth, who currently is negotiating a lease with the town to place antennae on the municipal water tower, hopes to be able to relay micro-wave […]
Some Couchiching residents are angry the band’s council has ignored pleas to preserve sacred Pow-Wow grounds in order to build a new golf course. “We met with them and suggested they not move the Pow-Wow grounds; that they build around it,” said Elmer Mainville Jr., a Couchiching resident and member […]
Before hitting the wear and tear of the regular season on the Emo oval, Borderland Racing Association drivers will put their vehicles on display. During its annual spring meeting Sunday, association members decided to kick of the season with a display of this year’s competitors May 12 at the old […]
A table surrounded by native elders, health workers, and others asked questions and listened intently as local pharmacist Kim Metke and registered nurse Jane Elliot explained why they were sitting in the old age home at Couchiching last Friday morning. Metke, owner of Pharmasave and the Fort Frances Clinic Dispensary, […]
The Northwestern Ontario Recycling Association is hoping to resume blue box pickups in town Wednesday as it rushes to fix another broken truck. “About a week-and-a-half ago, we had a major truck difficulty with the Fort Frances truck,” Cindy Buttner of Buttner Enterprises, which picks up the blue boxes here, […]
The restructuring proposal to have two parcels of land–one in Alberton and one in Miscampbell–moved within the boundaries of Fort Frances was approved by town council Monday night and now will be sent to the province for consideration. “Last night was the last report I made to council concluding negotiations. […]
The Fort Frances Fire and Rescue Service responded to a report of a chimney fire just after 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday on the 900 block of Smith Avenue. Upon arrival, firefighters discovered heavy smoke and fire in the rear of the home. The blaze was quickly knocked down and extinguished, […]
