Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Special education teachers are now eligible to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Kit Young Hoon, medical officer of health at the Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU), announced on Friday. “The province has given direction that staff that work with special education students are eligible for vaccines, so […]
Earth Day is taking root at the Fort Frances Library Technology Centre. To celebrate Earth Day, taking place this Thursday, library staff will offering curbside pickup of grain bags and activity books. According to Andrea Avis, the activity bags include seeds to grow barley, soy beans, corn and wheat. The […]
New restrictions were announced by Premier Doug Ford on Friday, April 16. They were made in response to new modeling data, which shows an increased demand on already strapped hospitals and ICU’s. the new measures come into effect Saturday at 12:01 a.m. The new measures, which are in addition to […]
Currently, there are 61 active cases of COVID-19 in the Northwestern Health Unit region. Today we received reports of five new positive COVID-19 test results in the Emo Health Hub region, four new positive COVID-19 test results in the Sioux Lookout Health Hub region, two new positive COVID-19 test results […]
TORONTO — The Ontario government is providing eligible health care and other frontline workers with free emergency child care for school-aged children, starting Monday, April 19, 2021. The announcement was made following the province’s decision to move elementary and secondary students across the province to remote learning following the April […]
The Rainy River District OPP have named a new Detachment Commander. Inspector Shaun Crabbe will take over from retiring Detachment Commander, Inspector Nathan Schmidt, later this year. Insp. Crabbe is transferring from the James Bay OPP Detachment, where he has served as Detachment Commander since 2019. He had previously served […]
Fort Frances council held a public meeting on Monday to allow members of the public to make comments in favour of or in opposition to changing the zoning of the former St. Michael’s school from Institutional (I) to Residential (R2). The change of the zoning is the first step to […]
Pharmasave in Fort Frances will be administering 100 new doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines today. Last week, Pharmasave administered 200 doses of vaccines. After these vaccinations are given today, there will be about 300 residents in Fort Frances who received their AstraZeneca vaccines after Pharmasave administered the 200 doses on […]
Celebrating a 25th anniversary is a cause for celebration in any area, but it’s made even more special when the original plan only accounted for three years. Such is the case for Dr. Jeremy McGuire. The local chiropractor is celebrating his 25th anniversary working here in town on April 15, […]
An Easter version of Hallelujah recorded and filmed in Fort Frances is now getting shared internationally, receiving 11.5 million views and more than 600,000 shares on Facebook in a matter of days. The stars of the viral video are Callahan, 19, and Cassandra, 10, Armstrong. In under five minutes, the […]
While many residents in northwestern Ontario look forward to the summer, anxious to get on their boats and fish, all tourist camp owners have their fingers crossed, hoping to avoid a repeat of last year’s occupancy numbers. Although vaccinations continue to rapidly roll out in the United States, where most […]
Local businesses in the region were just starting to adjust to the red zone guidelines when the province declared a four-week-long stay-at-home order, leaving businesses scrambling to quickly get ready for curbside pickup. Joey Hunter, McTaggarts manager in Fort Frances, said business was steady before the stay-at-home order, but now […]
