Duane Hicks With the municipal election coming up Oct. 25, Coun. Sharon Tibbs is the first person to file her nomination to run for town council again. Coun. Tibbs, who has served on council for 16 years in all, including a 12-year stint from 1991-2003 and then this current term […]
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Peggy Revell Two Fort Frances women will be heading to Haiti next week to assist with relief efforts following the devastating earthquake that struck the Caribbean nation back in January. “We’re going to do what we can,” said Pastor Sandy McEvoy, who will be leaving April 6 for a 10-day […]
Duane Hicks Due to the very dry conditions this spring, the Fort Frances Fire & Rescue Service and all other municipal fire departments in Rainy River District have declared a ban on all open-air burning until conditions improve. Fort Frances Fire Chief Gerry Armstrong, who also is the district fire […]
A less-known effect of the so-called “great recession” that began last year is the major shift in Canadian consumers’ buying habits. They have switched some of their purchases from brand-name items to private-label goods. Consumer goods once were believed to be as recession-proof as any industry can be. Shoppers might […]
Staff A Five-Mile Dock Road residence was destroyed in an early-morning fire yesterday. “Nobody was in the house at the time, it was unoccupied, so we had a full force of 12 of our firefighters and three of our fire trucks go and respond,” noted Couchiching deputy fire chief Christine […]
the OPP Members of the Fort Frances OPP detachment, along with members of the Northwest Region Crime Unit and Community Drug Action Team, seized a substantial amount of Oxycontin pills from a local man last Tuesday (March 23). As a result of the investigation, police seized 200 80 mg Oxycontin […]
Duane Hicks Harrison switching positions There will be a new manager at the local AbitibiBowater paper mill in the near future after general manager John Harrison last week took a position elsewhere in the company. Jean-Philippe Cote, director of Public Affairs and Government Relations for AbitibiBowater, said Harrison announced internally […]
Staff With only one week to go until the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club’s annual Good Friday breakfast, those who plan to get tickets had better act fast. Kiwanian Dr. Robert Lidkea said tickets, which cost $8 each and are available at Lidkea Optometry, have been selling well. Only about 25-30 […]
Staff Coun. Sharon Tibbs yesterday filed her nomination to run for town council again—the first person to throw their hat in the ring for the Oct. 25 municipal election. She has served on council for 16 years in all, including a 12-year stint from 1991-2003. Coun. Tibbs did not sit […]
Staff TBayTel announced plans this week to build a new third-generation (3G) High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) wireless network across Northern Ontario, with the upgraded network to be deployed in Thunder Bay, Kenora, and Dryden this year, and then Fort Frances and Rainy River District sometime in 2011. “Phase One will […]
Duane Hicks With the region having seen an unusually mild and short winter, black bears are starting to stir early this spring. As such, the Ministry of Natural Resources is urging the public to take heed that they will be hungry. “It’s a bit early in the northwest and the […]
Staff Fort Frances OPP reported yesterday afternoon that a third teen missing from the Training and Learning Centre in Watten Township has been found safe and sound. Three teenaged girls had run away from TLC staff on Sunday around 6:30 p.m. while on a visit to the Lions Park on […]
