Duane Hicks Planning is underway for the second-annual “Festival of Frost” in downtown Fort Frances. It will be held Saturday, Nov. 29 and this year will include a traditional parade. The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce and BIA are teaming up to stage the festival while Boston Pizza and the […]
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Staff Those singers wanting to participate in this year’s Christmas cantata are urged to pick up their music books and practice CDs as soon as possible. Cantata director Diane Maxey said she’s in the process of contacting past participants to let them know the materials are ready. Those who haven’t […]
Staff Town council has awarded a tender for the supply and installation of an electronic runway condition reporting system at the local airport to Tradewind Scientific Ltd. at a cost of $27,967.50 (incl. HST). This equipment will replace the existing runway friction testing equipment set up in the airport’s half-ton […]
Duane Hicks The town will be waiting until next year to do upgrades to its “blue box” transfer station/drop-off facility here. The upgrades to the Sixth Street West depot will include the installation of two new stationary compactor units with properly-sized hoppers and four 40-cubic-yard roll-off containers. The delay, said […]
Duane Hicks The town will help the Fort Frances Lakers make the 2015 Dudley Hewitt Cup a reality here next spring. Council last night approved a donation in the amount of $5,500 to offset the costs to rent the ice surface at Ice For Kids Arena, as well as the […]
Staff The “Friends of the Fort Frances Museum” are busy planning for their third-annual fall fundraiser gala here Thursday, Nov. 6—and the group of volunteers is aiming to make this bigger and better than ever in hopes of raising more funds to provide more programming for residents. Called “An Evening […]
Duane Hicks The Legion was alive Friday evening with the sounds of polka and laughter as the beer flowed freely. A small crowd of about 50 people came out to enjoy the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s first-ever “Oktoberfest” party. But judging from the positive response, it won’t be their […]
Duane Hicks The town will try harder in future to avoid any residential sewage back-up in the east end. Council last night approved a report stating the Operations and Facilities division will review and adjust its protocol during extreme rainfall events when the groundwater table is at its highest elevation […]
Staff Knox United Church here is expecting its submission in the Aviva Community Fund Challenge will move on to the semi-final round after an intense two-week voting period wrapped up yesterday. Entered in the $50,000-$100,000 category, the local church is seeking funding for its renewal project to make the building […]
Staff The Royal Canadian Air Force’s “Snowbirds” demonstration team could take to the skies above the Fort Frances Airport next year. Town council this evening will receive a financial request from Bruce Caldwell, who is in the process of asking the “Snowbirds” to return here in June. Caldwell estimated it […]
the OPP On Saturday at 5:54 p.m., officers of the Rainy River District Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were advised of a missing 22 year-old Fort Frances, ON male. Family became concerned when the male didn’t return home and reported to police that he was last seen in […]
the OPP On Saturday at approximately 1:19 p.m., officers of the Rainy River District Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Rainy River District Emergency Medical Services and Emo Fire Department responded to a serious single motor vehicle collision on Barnhart Road, located approximately nine kilometres north of Emo. The […]
