Press Release Ontario is increasing access to mental health and addictions services for First Nations’ communities in Northwestern Ontario with a new mental health and addictions wellness centre in Fort Frances. In partnership with the federal government, the province is investing in a new program called Mino Ayaa Ta Win […]
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Nicholas Donaldson The Rainy River District School Board will hold its last regular meeting of the 2016-17 school year tonight at 7 p.m. in the Education Centre here. Trustees will vote to approve the Strategic Plans Goals for 2017-22, a required plan that is reviewed annually and provides direction to […]
Staff Want to learn about funding programs and business services available in the district–and how to access them? A small business service provider open house is slated for June 14, courtesy of the Rainy River Future Development Corp., PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise, and Northwest Business Centre. The free event […]
Duane Hicks Road construction season in Fort Frances is getting underway. Bay City Contractors will be reconstructing Second Street East from Mowat Avenue to Portage, as well as Nelson Street from the Mosher Avenue intersection to 100 metres westward, this summer. A pre-construction meeting for property owners on both streets […]
Press Release The Rainy River District School Board has hired Andrew Harris, of the Durham District School Board, as its new superintendent of education. Currently the principal of Frenchman’s Bay Public School in Pickering, Ont., Harris also has worked as a principal at Uxbridge Public School and Athabasca Street Public […]
Duane Hicks The Huffman Court subdivision here has been hopping lately. Of the 16 lots once available, only two remain unsold, Fort Frances clerk Lisa Slomke told the Times. A total of 11 lots have been sold and ownership transferred while three have a signed agreement of purchase and sale, […]
Nicholas Donaldson The fifth-annual dinner for former paper and kraft mill workers here was held Thursday evening upstairs at the Fort Frances Legion under its new name, The Mill Alumni. About 100 guests attended the social hour and dinner formerly known as the Quarter-Century Oldtimers’ Club. This is the first […]
Atikokan ProgressDawn Lessard Almost 40 people attended a community consultation meeting held May 18 at Atikokan High School to hear more detailed information and provide feedback about the potential amalgamation of Atikokan’s public schools into one K-12 facility. The accommodation review committee, consisting of school, parent, and student reps from […]
Press Release The International-Rainy Lake of the Woods Watershed Board has announced its new Water Levels Committee. The committee consists of co-chairs Col. Samuel L. Calkins and Gail Faveri, Kiley Shebagegit of Emo, Nolan Baratono of International Falls, U.S. Engineering Advisor Scott Jutila, and Canadian engineering advisor Matthew DeWolfe. The […]
Duane Hicks Members of town council offered their two cents last week to a representative of the North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) as to how health care could be improved here. Jessica Logozzo, director of Health System Development and Integration for the North West LHIN, spoke to council […]
Kiera KowalskiSummer reporter The Watten fire department here has been struggling with funding recently and will hold a flea market at the fire hall/community centre there next Saturday (June 10) to help fundraise. Besides the department’s operating costs, Watten also needs money for a new fire rescue truck. Its existing […]
Staff Fort Frances, Emo, and Chapple last week received federal and provincial funding through the Clean Water and Wastewater Fund to ensure residents continue to have access to clean water. Local MP Don Rusnak was at the Civic Centre here last Thursday to announce Fort Frances has been approved for […]
