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 […]
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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 […]
Duane Hicks Town council will be keeping term limits at eight years for its various boards and committees, but will make exceptions if there’s not applicants to fill vacancies. Council amended the relevant bylaw during its meeting last night, stating it has the authority to forgo the enforcement of term […]
Staff Town council will vote tonight to increase user fees here in 2015. If the recommendation from the Administration and Finance executive committee is approved, there will be a general 2.6 percent hike effective Jan. 1. This increase, however, does not include any specific fees that have been identified to […]
Press Release The Fort Frances Fire and Rescue Service has been working with personnel at the Resolute mill for the past few months related to fire safety issues at the Fort Frances site. There was a high level of optimism that the sale of the mill was imminent and that […]
Staff With Christmas just over a month away, the Fort Frances Times is looking for children’s letters to Santa. The Times is getting ready to publish its annual Christmas greetings edition on Dec. 17. If you would like your child’s letter to Santa to be included, we need it by […]
Staff The second-annual “Festival of Frost” here next Saturday (Nov. 29) is shaping up to be very cool indeed, including a parade based on the hit movie, “Frozen.” But the 57th-annual “Parade of Lights” will be a lot more magical if more groups and businesses would enter floats. “We have […]
Duane Hicks Angela Halvorsen was among 20 regional women honoured last Thursday by the PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise (PARO). The business investment officer at Rainy River Future Development Corp. was named as one of the PARO Top 20 in 20 awards at the “Exceed the Vision” gala in celebration […]
Duane Hicks With winter’s chill gripping Borderland already, concerns are running high about how the local mill will survive the season without heat and remain saleable. “I know there’s been a lot of interest expressed in the community, by residents, regarding the health and safety factor of the facility not […]
Staff The Town of Fort Frances will be getting an annual allocation of $165,000 a year for 2014-2016 under the new permanent Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund (OCIF), which is meant to provide a steady source of predictable, long-term funding. Other recipients and the amount of annual funding they’ll receive, includes: […]
