“It was a tremendous way to kick off SummerActive 2001.” That was Elaine Caron’s reaction when recalling the large turnout on hand early Friday morning to take part in the Family Fun Walk at Robert Moore School here. “We had over 170 students and parents participate in the walk,” said […]
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“Warp 9” is going full speed ahead for a mid-summer opening. Funding has been assembled, plans drawn up, and construction is in full tilt for the new night club in the old Royal Theatre on Scott Street. “I saw the building and it sparked my curiosity. Really the building picked […]
Rainy Lake is still inching closer to “emergency” levels as defined by the International Joint Commission but there is little reason at this point for anyone to be concerned about flooding or damage. The lake level Wednesday morning was measured at 337.7 m (1,107.94 ft.)–a mere five cm (two inches) […]
While some district patients travel three times a week to Thunder Bay for hemodialysis treatments, others instead have had to leave family and friends to move to the city to live. One such patient, Ronald Jewett, got a first-hand look Monday at his opportunity to move back to Fort Frances […]
Ministry of Natural Resources firefighters only have had to respond to a pair of grass fires in the Fort Frances District since the fire season officially began April 1. “Well, so far things have been very quiet,” said Larry Brant, sector response leader at the Fort Frances fire headquarters. “It […]
Town administration has added its voice to those seeking faster, more reliable Internet service here. Darryl Allan, the town’s manager of administration and finance, echoed complaints of Internet service providers (ISPs) and the local business community that Internet access–through Bell Canada–is too slow and unreliable. “The concerns businesses have in […]
With many OPP officers retiring in the next three to five years, recruiting officer Sgt. Darryl Wilson is hoping to generate some interest here when he holds two information sessions Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. “Almost every detachment in the region has a vacancy or two ongoing,” he said Monday […]
According to a local lawyer, purchasing the international bridge here is the best way to prevent increasing tolls and other problems. “I hear through the grapevine that the new Customs facility may be bogged down for a period of time in federal bureaucracy,” Lawrence G. Phillips wrote in a letter […]
During an in-camera session of the committee of the whole of council yesterday, councillors received the Township of Miscampbell’s acceptance of their land annexation proposal and agreed to proceed with the boundary change. “Basically the same terms were offered. They accepted four years of equal taxation and they’d pay whatever […]
Water levels in Rainy Lake and the Kabetogama-Namakan reservoirs continue to rise and are now approaching emergency levels, Abitibi-Consolidated and Boise Cascade warned Monday morning in a joint news release. “We continue to see rising water levels so we’re issuing kind of a warning to lake areas that we may […]
Rainy River OPP are investigating a fatal marine accident that claimed the life of a Fort Frances man on Lake of the Woods near Morson on Friday. Larry Rose, 54, was found near his boat in the water that evening after he was reported long overdue coming off the lake, […]
The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is looking to fill a vacancy on its board of directors. Chamber co-ordinator Dawn Booth said Monday morning that the only criterion is for the person to be an employee of a Chamber member business. “They don’t have to be an owner or manager, […]
