Residential ratepayers can expect an average 10.1 percent hike over last year on their final municipal tax bills as Fort Frances council set the ’98 budget into bylaw Monday night. That despite objections from local ratepayers about the $24,000 shift from the commercial base onto residential, and a request that […]
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When Annissa Johnson was named the regional Miss Hawaiian Tropic here July 23, she was thrilled. But now, she’s getting ready for an even bigger event Aug. 16 when she will be a vying for the national title in Laval, Que. “I’m very excited,” said Johnson, who recently received the […]
Shaunna Cuthbertson is still riding on cloud nine after returning from the Presbyterian Youth Triennium in Indiana with fellow teen Amanda Cotterill. The local teenagers, both youth members of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church here, travelled with a teen delegation from Thunder Bay to a one-week conference in LaFayette mid-July. The […]
The Lady of Lourdes Church is celebrating its 50th anniversary at its present site, along with the 100th anniversary of its cemetery, with the festivities wrapping up there this weekend. While the current church has been standing for 50 years, three other churches, built on or near the present site, […]
It isn’t known what impact the new benchmarks released by the Ministry of Health last week will have on local health care but they seem to be welcome. A joint report between the Ministry of Health and the Ontario Hospital Association, “Rural and Northern Health Parameters and Benchmarks” is a […]
“It’s a grand adventure!” That’s how B.C. natives Ian and Sally Wilson summed up the first part of their trek into re-living the historic trade route north taken by the Voyageurs of the Northwest Company some 200 years ago. So far the couple has paddled their homemade birch bark canoe […]
After a tearful good-bye, six district families stood at J.D. Junction on Sunday and watched as Allan Empey’s van carried the six children who had become a part of their lives away to Winnipeg, en route to their own families in Belarus. “From our side it was a tearful good-bye,” […]
Candace Grynol has returned to Denver, Col. for another year with “Up With People” after being hired as the vocal trainer for the upcoming year. Grynol spent three short days visiting family and friends at her home in Devlin last month before “Up With People” flew her to Denver from […]
Construction on the auditorium hasn’t even started but the project already is estimated to come in at almost $800,000 more than town council approved. And that has council prompted council to bring C.A. Ventin architect John Croker to its next regular meeting Aug. 10 to get some answers about the […]
A worthy cause took centre stage Saturday afternoon under the big tent at the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship as more than $23,000 was raised in support of cancer research during the district’s first “Cops for Cancer” fundraiser. The “shave-off” saw some 30 participants brave the clippers in front of […]
Fort Frances ratepayers facing a huge tax hike due to the province’s market value reassessment will see some relief over the next four years as town council opted to “phase in” that increase. Council voted Monday night to “phase in” the increase for any residential ratepayers facing more than an […]
The Communications, Energy and Papermakers union is contemplating what to do with members at Abitibi-Consolidated’s Wayagamack mill in Trois-Rivieres after the two striking locals there voted to go back to work before a new contract was negotiated. That could mean denying them access to the joint bargaining pact as CEP […]
