Division managers for the town have less than a week to find another $410,000 that can be removed from the system to allow council to pass the 1999 budget with no tax increase at its next meeting Monday. Council debated the budget in-camera for several hours before the last council […]
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Local members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the International Association of Aerospace Workers last night ratified a six-year contract with Abitibi-Consolidated. Members with IAM Local 771 ratified the deal by 78 percent. Numbers for the IBEW Local 1774 vote were unknown by press time. Mill manager Jim […]
Fort Frances Little Theatre is looking for interested actors and stage technicians to come out this Sunday for auditions in an effort to stage Tennessee William’s classic play, “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Open auditions will be held upstairs at the Fort Frances Museum from 1-4 p.m. and again from 6:30-8:30 […]
After hearing federal Finance minister Paul Martin give a thumbs down to plans by four of the Canada’s five largest banks to merge on Monday, local bank managers have offered mixed responses to how they and their corporations are approaching the decision. “We haven’t really had time to consider the […]
Winners of the Legion’s annual Remembrance Day poetry, prose, and poster contest were rewarded for their efforts Monday at Fort Frances High School. Bob Cupp, Roly Crawford, and Betty Newman, members of the Legion’s benevolent committee, were on hand to award 21 students from J.W. Walker and Robert Moore elementary […]
Organizers of the first “Magical House and Light Tour,” held here Sunday evening, are dancing on cloud nine after it exceeded all their expectations–raising $2,500 in the process. Staged as a fundraiser for the Riverside Foundation for Health Care, 125 people took up the opportunity to tour six local homes […]
Fort Frances CAO Bill Naturkach was still waiting for his phone to ring Tuesday afternoon, eager to hear how the provincial government was proceeding, if at all, on Bill 79–what he called the “bill of chaos” last week. Also known as the Fairness for Property Taxpayers Act, Naturkach said Bill […]
Fort Frances certainly isn’t the only place where an Abitibi-Consolidated mill is taking downtime over the Christmas holidays, noted Susan Rogers, vice-president of corporate communications in Montreal. Local workers learned late last week that the mill here will shut down Wednesday, Dec. 23 at the end of the night shift […]
Fort Frances needs to find a little more than $1.4 million in its overall budget to avoid a property tax hike in 1999. But the $64,000 question is where? The committee of the whole of council has now met with the town’s four department managers and its economic development advisor […]
With another $26,000 pledged in the last two weeks, the Rainy River hospital’s “Buy a brick, build it quick” campaign topped $180,500 as of last Thursday. The campaign is aiming to raise $300,000 by the Dec. 31 target deadline. Ken Johnston, editor of the Rainy River Record and the advertising […]
Organizers of “A Magical Christmas House and Light Tour” say ticket sales are going over well, with even more expected to be sold right up until the event Sunday. The tour, slated to run from 5-8 p.m. and being staged by the Riverside Foundation for Health Care as a fundraiser, […]
The course of true love never did run smooth . . . but Muskie Theatre’s performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” did. Performed last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in the auditorium at Knox United Church, the three shows went quite well. There was a lot of laughter and applause at […]
