Duane Hicks The new town council officially set sail on its four-year voyage together Monday night. But the waters will be challenging, according to Mayor Roy Avis. Mayor Avis, along with Couns. John Albanese, Wendy Brunetta, June Caul, Doug Kitowski, Ken Perry, and Paul Ryan, were piped into Council Chambers […]
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Duane Hicks The 2015 budget for the Town of Fort Frances is shaping up to be the best one in many years with a possible surplus. Budget work already has begun at the executive committee level, and Fort Frances CAO Mark McCaig said council and administration “are starting off from […]
Duane Hicks Resolute Forest Products has said it will be heating “critical” areas of the mill to allow it to restart if a successor owner is found, but Fort Frances Mayor Roy Avis feels there are questions he wants answered. “I know they’re going to put it in asset protection […]
Staff Rainy River District School Board trustees will take their oath tonight as the inaugural meeting of the new board gets underway at 7 p.m. at the Education Centre here. The board for the 2014-18 term includes David Kircher, who was re-elected in the Oct. 27 municipal election, as well […]
Staff With voting for the Aviva Community Fund Challenge having started yesterday, the Knox United Church Renewal Fundraising Committee said they are off to a good start. “At the end of the first day of voting, we were in 14th place with 466 votes while the top three ideas in […]
Staff Resolute Forest Products has committed to heating portions of its Fort Frances pulp mill through the winter, but the town wants to know exactly what this will entail and whether it will be enough. “We are heating critical areas to allow the mill to restart if a successor owner […]
Staff A full field of candidates is running in the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce election. Jennifer Greenhalgh (JGreenhalgh Solutions) and Myles Kuharski (Gillons’ Insurance Brokers Ltd.) are vying for the position of president. Those running for seats on the board of directors include: •Jordan Forbes (Saulteaux Consulting & Engineering); […]
Staff If you’ve ever wanted to be in a film, here’s your chance. Toronto-based Jigsaw Casting informed the Times yesterday that it will be in Fort Frances today through Monday to cast a film. “We are casting a film about keeping warm, and our clients chose Fort Frances as it […]
Duane Hicks The Town of Fort Frances will be getting $85,900 less in Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund (OMPF) dollars in 2015 but is realizing more benefits from provincial uploads. The province reported yesterday that Fort Frances’ combined benefit of the 2015 OMPF and provincial uploads totals $3,814,100, which is the […]
Staff The Fort Frances Museum Advisory Committee is asking town council for additional staff to help curator Sherry George with the workload, as well as a council rep to sit on it. In a letter received by council Monday night, the committee wrote it “firmly believes that the museum requires […]
Duane Hicks Dr. Brian Johnstone was recognized for more than four decades of outstanding service to the community Monday night when he was honoured as the town’s 27th “Citizen of the Year.” “I’ve been here a long time, I’ve worked with people I’ve liked working with, and I’ve enjoyed every […]
Duane Hicks With the future of its Fort Frances mill and wood rights making headlines of late, Resolute Forest Products is speaking out about its role in ongoing efforts to sell the mill here and related matters. In an e-mail to the Times, Seth Kursman, vice-president of Corporate Communications, Sustainability […]
