Every night for 55 years, Bert Oliver has been reliving–through nightmares–the events that took him from his home here to the battlefields of Europe during the Second World War. “The war may have ended in 1945 but it didn’t end for me on that day,” Oliver said last week. “Almost […]
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Fort Frances council unanimously decided Monday night to pay the levy increase it had been withholding from the Northwestern Health Unit since early spring. “We’ve never been opposed to public health, we think it’s great. We just had some concerns at the administration end of it and hopefully we have […]
J.W. Walker and Alexander MacKenzie here have received $700,000 to implement a technological pilot project, the Rainy River District School Board announced at its regular meeting last night. “The goal is to create a Walker/MacKenzie home school community,” said principal Cauleen Stanley, who made a presentation at the meeting along […]
One local pharmacist already has pulled products containing phenylproanolamine (PPA) from his store shelves, with others to possibly follow suit. “First thing [Tuesday] morning, we began removing dozens of over-the-counter cold remedies that contain an ingredient which could cause hemorrhagic strokes, especially in young women,” Kim Metke, owner of Pharmasave […]
A 26-year-old Burriss man, charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a woman there Sunday night, is slated to make his next court appearance Monday . Michael Tetu has been in custody since being arrested at the scene. A date for a show-cause hearing may be set at […]
Not all kids are couch potatoes, according to a survey conducted by the Fort Frances Times last Friday. Roughly 80 percent of grade five-eight students at Robert Moore and St. Francis schools who returned surveys said they participate in at least some form of physical activity for some time after […]
Susie Grynol of Devlin is getting a firsthand look at the workings of the federal government as she walks the halls of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa as a page. But she also had the opportunity to witness the outpouring of emotion Canadians openly expressed when news of Pierre Elliot […]
At the tender age of 10, Karli McKinnon of Fort Frances has become a published writer, with her first poem appearing in the newly-released “Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul.” “I read an article about the book and I wrote them a letter,” McKinnon said. “I didn’t think I was […]
Although only 22, local singer Alyson Booth has a number of years of experience under her belt as far as performing goes. And while she’s placed in several “Quest for the Best” competitions here, including once in first place, she and Emo pianist Michelle Sommerfield hit the jackpot last weekend […]
Exceeding its preliminary total of $1,500, a more recent tally shows he Fort High senior band raised more than $3,000 towards its trip to Germany and Austria next March Break at an Oktoberfest dinner and silent auction last Thursday evening at the Legion here. “It’s been a month in the […]
It was almost Hallowe’en so it seemed like a good time to look at a haunted school. A tour of abandoned Fort Frances High School should prove scary enough by now, all right. You really can’t expect to find vampires over there, even if bats and rats should be plentiful. […]
While ’flu shots have been available to those in high-risk groups and health care workers since the middle of October, the Northwestern Health Unit here has been getting ready to administer the vaccine to the public starting Nov. 14. “We’re really looking at this as being much, much bigger than […]
