Sarah Pruys The Fort Frances Museum is doing an “Anniversaries” exhibit during July and August. “There’s quite a few anniversaries for this year,” noted museum curator Sherry George. “The Allan Cup is an important one for our community,” she said.“ It’s the 60th anniversary of the winning of the Allan […]
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Sarah Pruys On Aug. 6, Nathalie Von Niebelschutz, along with her husband, Ken Fedoruk, and children, Peter and Greta, will be relocating to Geneva, Switzerland for a year. “I’ll be on a deferred leave,” noted Von Niebelschutz, a French teacher at Robert Moore School here. After earning 75 percent of […]
Sarah Pruys Just like her mother and grandmother before her, Dianne Stafford always has found the outdoors to be a fascinating place. Knowledge about the woods was passed on from them, but she also has learned a lot by looking things up simply because she wanted to know more. And […]
Heather Latter FORT FRANCES—After the success of last year’s “Mining Matters” workshop here, Rainy River Resources once again is sponsoring the free seminar next month for youths and adults interested in learning more about geology. “It’s a really important initiative,” said Kyle Stanfield, the company’s vice-president of environment and sustainability, […]
Staff Caribou Coach will be operating on a slightly different schedule starting Aug. 5. The bus service, which runs from Thunder Bay to Fort Frances on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Fridays (with the exception of statutory holidays), currently leaves Thunder Bay at 9:30 a.m. (ET). It then stops in Atikokan at […]
Staff Adult volunteers are still needed The Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship held a volunteer sign-up yesterday from 7-9 p.m. at Boston Pizza. To ensure things run smoothly during the tournament next week, volunteers were assigned a position and time when they signed up. Afterwards, they were invited to stay […]
the MNR New fires continued to show up in the Northwest Region, with about a dozen reported by early yesterday evening while the final tally for Sunday was 28. Progress is being made on fires in the region, with 10 declared “out” as of yesterday. Most of the new fires […]
the OPP On Thursday at 5:15 a.m., the Rainy River District OPP detachment received a report of three overdue boaters. Three males, all from Fort Frances, were said to have set out from the Sorting Gap Marina on July 11 around 5:30 p.m., but failed to return home as expected […]
the MNR FireRangers and air attack crews were very busy again yesterday as multiple new fires ignited. Fresh lightning that passed through Northwestern Ontario in the past 24-36 hours continues to spark new blazes. New forest fires also were reported across the West Fire Region on Saturday, rounding out the […]
Staff The new officers for the local Salvation Army are asking the public hold off on dropping off donations to the Thrift Store for the next few weeks. “It’s just overflowing,” noted Lt. Mary Maybury. “The rooms are just so packed, you can’t even walk.” “But we’re very thankful for […]
Staff Upgrades to the storm sewer pumping station at the Portage Avenue underpass finally have gotten underway—work that truly will complete the project, assisting with drainage at the site. Makkinga Contracting and its subcontractors put in the casing and piping under the tracks earlier this week, Operations and Facilities manager […]
Press Release The Fort Frances Public Library board is pleased to welcome Alicia Subnaik Kilgour as the chief executive officer of the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre, effective Sept. 4. Kilgour will assume the duties of Margaret Sedgwick, who retired in June after 35 years of service with the […]
