Press Release Knox United Church here will host the first Canadian organ recital for Leo Ravesnbergen on Monday, Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m. This will be the start of a nine-recital tour that includes such churches as Westminister United (Winnipeg), St. Paul’s United (Thunder Bay), St. Peter’s Lutheran (Kitchener), and […]
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Staff Summer construction work around town should be wrapped up by mid-October. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown told town council Monday night that work is moving along on the sewer and water infrastructure replacement job on Third Street East between Crowe Avenue and Frenette. All of the sanitary sewer […]
Duane Hicks With the deadline to file to run in the Oct. 27 municipal election set for Friday, the field of candidates running for council here has grown to 15 as of press time today—drawing incumbents and newcomers alike. Among the more recent nominees are Wendy Brunetta, June Caul, Eric […]
Duane Hicks The Rainy River Future Development Corp. team continues change to meet the needs of the community, with one of the newer additions being forest tenure consultant Mike Willick, a former deputy assistant to the minister of natural resources. RRFDC consultant Tannis Drysdale told town council Monday night that […]
Duane Hicks The Town of Fort Frances is seeing “heightened interest” in the new Huffman Court subdivision on Williams Avenue after recently mailing out a brochure to area residents. “We put the brochure out as part of a marketing effort,” Fort Frances CAO Mark McCaig said Friday. “We’re very pleased […]
Duane Hicks A group of east-end residents has petitioned town council to make fixing their sewer problems a higher priority. Spokesperson Kendall Richardson presented a petition signed by 45 people, accounting for nearly all of the residents living in her neighbourhood in the southeast part of town. The petition asks […]
Duane Hicks The town is keeping its fingers crossed more funding will come through for the Rainy Lake Market Square redevelopment in downtown Fort Frances. As reported last month, the town learned it got $997,500 from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. But it will need a federal funding component […]
Staff And then there were 15. Wendy Brunetta and Harold Huntley both filed their nomination papers yesterday to run for town council in the Oct. 27 municipal election. Incumbents John Albanese, Doug Kitowski, Ken Perry, and Paul Ryan are seeking re-election. Also running for the six seats up for grabs […]
Staff There will be two more names on the ballot here for the Oct. 27 municipal election. June Caul and Eric Fagerdahl filed their nomination papers Friday, bringing the total number of candidates running for the six seats on council to 13. Also running are incumbents John Albanese, Doug Kitwoski, […]
Staff Town council will have a full agenda at its regular meeting tonight, including a trio of presentations on different matters. Kendall Richardson will give council a petition, on behalf of certain east-end home owners, in support of the investigation and fixing of sewer issues in the neighbourhood south of […]
Staff Everyone is invited out to the Métis Hall here this Tuesday (Sept. 9) for a gathering and breakfast to mark International FASD Awareness Day. “The group that founded it, what they did was on the ninth day of the ninth month at 9:09 a.m., they rang bells,” explained Ashlee […]
Staff There will be four more names on the ballot for the Oct. 27 municipal election. June Caul and Eric Fagerdahl filed their nomination papers today, while incumbent Coun. Doug Kitowski filed his nomination papers yesterday, along with newcomer Joe Kneisz. They bring the total number of candidates running for […]
