Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Robin Taylor Wright’s Laughing Cactus Productions is staging one of the local playwright’s works right here in Fort Frances. The show was previously the subject of a dramatic reading hosted by Wright in the summer of 2025. “It’s set in a group home in a fictional southern Ontario town, not […]
A new musical project with a serious dose of vintage swagger hits the Rainy River District this fall as Tin Lizzie makes its official debut Friday night, Oct. 30, at Hallett Brewing for an All Hallows’ Eve celebration. Founded by award-winning performing artist and multi-instrumentalist Jennifer Thorpe, Tin Lizzie brings […]
The citizens made their decision on Monday. When all the votes were counted, the turnout was higher than four years ago. Four years earlier, 2,639 votes were tabulated in Fort Frances. I was expecting a much higher turnout for this year. Fewer than 50 per cent of eligible Fort Frances […]
Fort Frances demanded change, and change is what Fort Frances got. Mostly. The unofficial results of the 2026 municipal election in Fort Frances were read out by town clerk Chelsea Greig at the Fort Frances Civic Centre on Monday night. Brent Calder has been elected to lead the town through […]
Brent Calder has been elected to stand as the next mayor of Fort Frances. In an unofficial reading of voting results shortly after polls closed on Monday, Oct. 26, Calder was revealed to have been voted the mayor-elect, beating out challenger and former councillor John McTaggart. Calder was recorded as […]
The Fort Frances Library is gearing up for another year of safe Halloween activities with the return of the annual “Trunk or Treat.” Started over a decade ago as a safe communities initiative called Project Safe Halloween, Trunk or Treat is held in the library’s parking lot on the evening […]
Sherry Loveday has until Nov. 15 to find a new place to live, and she does not yet know where that will be. “I now know how the homeless feel being put out on the street, because we are,” said Loveday, one of the Rose Manor tenants still in a […]
Fort Frances residents could be skating beneath a new roof at McIrvine Park this winter, with construction of the nearly $1-million rink upgrade progressing towards completion. Travis Rob, the Town of Fort Frances’ Manager of Infrastructure and Growth, told the Times that work on the $994,000 project is progressing well, […]
KENORA — Since Kenora, Keewatin and Jaffray Melick amalgamated in 2000 to form the City of Kenora as it is today, there has never been a mayoral acclamation — until now. That’s according to records of the municipality and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario. Mayor Andrew Poirier has been […]
Once upon a midnight dreary, while she pondered weak and weary, Fort Frances Museum Program and Events Coordinator Catrina Caira came up with a gruesome idea for a hauntingly good time—an ol’-timely 1920s-themed “ghost social,” but with a modern twist: music, dancing and cocktails. With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe, […]
The Fort Frances Museum and Cultural Centre is heading into Remembrance season with a new exhibit on the Royal Canadian Legion’s centennial and two November evenings devoted to life on the home front. The temporary exhibit “Honouring 100 Years of the Legion” opens with a reception and light refreshments today […]
The OPP have concluded their investigation into a bomb threat made to the Fort Frances High School (FFHS) on Tuesday morning, having cleared the premises with no damage or injuries. No suspect has yet been identified. The Rainy River District Detachment of the OPP received information shortly before 11:30 a.m. […]
