Staff Setting the stage for the next two years, Mayor Roy Avis appointed councillors to the numerous town committees, as well as district and regional boards, at Monday night’s inaugural meeting. They are as follows: •Administration and Finance executive committee—Couns. Wendy Brunetta, Paul Ryan, and Ken Perry; •Planning and Development […]
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Press Release The deadline for responding to the International Joint Commission’s brief online flood damages survey has been extended until Monday, Dec. 22. The deadline extension will allow seasonal residents, who spend their winters elsewhere, to have a greater opportunity to be aware of the survey and complete it. As […]
Press Release The Town of Fort Frances is optimistic the assets pertinent to the sale of the local kraft mill are being heated to a degree that likely will maintain them in a saleable condition. “This is an important step in what will be many to secure a new buyer […]
Duane Hicks The Downtown BIA and Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce rang in the Christmas season here Saturday with the second-annual “Festival of Frost.” “It was a fun time,” said Curvy Chick owner Jennifer Horton, who was part of the organizing committee with Chamber manager Annely Armstrong-Thorstad, Kimberly Emes-Nicholson (Emes […]
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 […]
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 […]
