the OPP Yesterday around at 7:45 p.m., Rainy River District OPP officers were alerted by Treaty 3 Police Service of a stolen vehicle from Seine River First Nation. A male youth was reported to have taken a blue 2010 Chevrolet Avalanche without consent and was believed to be travelling towards […]
Local News
Staff Canadian Blood Services will be holding a summer blood donor clinic at Fort Frances High School on Aug. 13-14, with the public able to make an appointment now to help out. The overall goal is for CBS to get 380 blood donors over the course of the two-day clinic, […]
Duane Hicks The Town of Fort Frances will not be selling off the property known as “Nelson Street Park” for residential development after Ontario Municipal Board chair J.E. Sniezek ruled in favour of residents who opposed the re-zoning and ordered the pertinent bylaw repealed. In a decision issued June 28, […]
Press Release The Ministry of the Attorney General has taken the precautionary measure of closing the Fort Frances Courthouse due to water damage. Full court services will be restored there as soon as it is safe to do so. Ontario Court of Justice hearings scheduled at the Fort Frances Courthouse […]
Staff Two new lightning-caused fires were reported in the district yesterday. Fort Frances Fire #21, a 0.1-hectare blaze, was burning “not under control” far north of Fort Frances near Missus Lake. Fort Frances Fire #22, meanwhile, is 0.5-ha blaze located near Jackfish Lake, north of Devlin. It also was listed […]
Duane Hicks The Town of Fort Frances will not be selling off property known as “Nelson Street Park” as it had planned, as Ontario Municipal Board chair J.E. Sniezek has decided in favour of residents opposing the rezoning of the property in question, and ordered the pertinent bylaw repealed. In […]
Staff With one of their own being unable to participate this year, those involved in the annual bathtub races on Sand Bay made sure that the event would go on in his honour. This year’s 41st running of the Canada Day event was put on by drivers Len Bedard and […]
Press Release The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Canada Day window display contest. There were so many wonderful entries the judges had a hard time picking just three! Judging took place Friday, June 29, and the winning businesses were treated to […]
Heather Latter Standing on cement floors all day while working at the local Starbucks, Patty Jorgenson’s feet and back were aching by the end of each work day. It was that pain that got her thinking about getting into reflexology—the practice of applying pressure to the feet and hands—as a […]
Staff Fort Frances will keep the tug of war trophy for another year—not because they defeated their opponents from International Falls, but because the Monday event was canceled due to a thunderstorm that passed over at precisely the hour the “Pulling for Peace” event was scheduled, raining out the annual […]
Staff A thunderstorm that passed over Fort Frances and International Falls, MN, at precisely the hour the “Pulling for Peace” event was scheduled, rained out the annual friendly tug of war between the two countries yesterday. “If it had been a couple hours earlier or a couple hours later, we […]
Sarah Pruys It’s not too late to enter the Canada Day parade, which will be held on Front Street at 5 p.m. on July 1st. The theme of the parade this year is the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, so participants are encouraged to think royally. Just one of the many activities […]
