Duane Hicks After travelling to Greece two years ago, and then Greece and France last year, local artist Connie Cuthbertson has gone to Italy and Croatia to take photos, sketch, and paint, as well as work on her first book. Cuthbertson departed last week to spend three weeks in Italy, […]
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Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—“Canadian Idol” finalist Mitch MacDonald made a stop in Fort Frances last week to visit family and perform a couple of gigs in the area. MacDonald, who finished in second place in season six of the popular singing contest in the fall of 2008, passed through en […]
Duane Hicks The public will be able to drop off recyclables 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at the recycle transfer station here later this year after town council approved a tender for an upgrades project there at a special meeting yesterday afternoon. Council awarded the tender to […]
Staff It appears Fort Frances’ attempt to be crowned the World Fishing Network’s “Ultimate Fishing Town” will meet a bitter end tomorrow afternoon. After nearly two weeks of public voting, the first round of the contest will wrap up tomorrow (Sept. 1) at 4 p.m. local time. As of press […]
Staff A man died yesterday while working at the Boise mill in International Falls. Emergency personnel were called to the mill shortly before 11 a.m. for a medical emergency after a man was found unresponsive. They arrived to find a man had died in an industrial accident. The man is […]
Press Release Kenora OPP officers, with the assistance of Kenora ambulance personnel, attended a Railway Street residence Sunday evening after receiving a report of an unresponsive male. Upon arriving at the residence, emergency personnel determined the male was deceased and notified the regional coroner’s office. Kenora OPP, with the assistance […]
Duane Hicks Couns. Andrew Hallikas and Ken Perry joined the ranks of incumbent candidates seeking re-election in this fall’s municipal election after both filed their nomination papers Friday. Coun. Andrew Hallikas said it was a fairly easy decision to seek a second term. “When I first got on council, it […]
Staff The intersections at Portage Avenue and First St. East and Portage Avenue and Second St. East will be closed temporarily Monday due to road construction. Bay City Contractors will be placing and shaping granular “A” material along Portage Avenue between First and Second St. East starting on Monday at […]
Peggy Revell While it will be rough around the edges, the new Robert Moore School will be ready to welcome students through its doors this Tuesday. “We’re definitely going to be in the building,” said Raymond Roy, manager of plant operations and maintenance for the Rainy River District School Board. […]
Staff Dr. Cynthia Saliba will be joining the Nelson Medicine Professional Group as a family physician starting Wednesday (Sept. 1), the Fort Frances Physician Recruitment & Retention Committee reported this morning. She also will join her colleagues in providing team approach primary care with nurse practitioners and other allied health […]
Press Release The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada has donated $25,000, through its Humanity Fund, to Oxfam emergency flood relief efforts in Pakistan and is raising additional funds from members and local unions across the country. CEP is urging members and locals to give generously to the growing […]
the MNR The forest fire hazard is climbing steadily across Northwestern Ontario. The hazard is sitting at “moderate” to “high” for the whole region, with the higher hazards in the southern portions of the Fort Frances and Dryden districts, Quetico Provincial Park, Thunder Bay and Nipigon districts, and north towards […]
