Staff Traffic is down slightly at the Fort Frances Airport, town council learned at its regular meeting Monday night. With 1,039 aircraft having landed as of the end of May, that’s 36 less than in 2012, when 1,075 aircraft landed during that same time frame. “As a result, overall revenue […]
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Duane Hicks A group of six canoeists with the Paddle Across Canada Tour (PACT) passed through Rainy River District late last week. The group, which started their trek from the national historic site at Rocky Mountain House, Alta. on May 16, is travelling 5,000 km of Canada’s rivers and lakes […]
Duane Hicks While the province has said it will not legislate utilities to amalgamate into larger ones, forcing mergers “through heavy-handed regulation which endorses a cookie-cutter approach and ignores regional differences” remains a very real threat, the Fort Frances Power Corp. is warning. The FFPC is prepared to fight for […]
Heather Latter Town council passed a resolution at its regular meeting Monday night supporting the closing of the government dock on Sand Bay to the public as of July 10. But further to that, the town is requesting people abide by the warning to stay off it. “We’ve posted the […]
Lucas Punkari Now that the Fort Frances Curling Club knows its bid was one of the 10 winners in this year’s “Kraft Celebration Tour,” organizers are getting things set up for what will be taking place here Sunday, Aug. 25 when TSN comes to town. “It really hasn’t sunk in […]
Staff Two local projects—the subdivision development at the former Huffman School site and reconstruction of Second Street East between Mowat and Central—are moving along well, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown reported at last night’s council meeting. “Over the last two weeks, most of the work has been done on […]
Lucas Punkari After a long couple of days of waiting, supporters of the Fort Frances Curling Club’s bid in the annual “Kraft Celebration Tour” will find out late this afternoon if their efforts against Dryden were successful. The results of the online voting showdown—the 10th and final one of the […]
It will be clear tonight, with an overnight low of eight C (46 F). Look for northwest winds at five-10 m.p.h. Tomorrow will be partly sunny, with a chance of thunderstorms at night. Expect a high of 22 (72) and low around 10 (50), along with continued northwest winds at […]
Staff Town council will have five bylaws on its agenda tonight, including one to authorize the entering into of a collective agreement with the Fort Frances Professional Fire Fighters Association. The agreement covers a three-year period from Jan. 1, 2013-Dec. 31, 2015, and includes a 4.5 percent salary increase over […]
the OPP On July 21, the Rainy River District OPP received a report of a suspected impaired driver operating a white Chevrolet Corvette near Reef Point Road. The vehicle was observed to be swerving all over the roadway. Officers in the area east of Fort Frances began to patrol and […]
the OPP As a result of an investigation by OPP officers with the Fort Frances Community Drug Action Team (CDAT), Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau (OCEB), Thunder Bay Drug Enforcement Unit, North West Region Crime Unit, North West Region Emergency Response Unit, and Rainy River District OPP, several district residents have […]
