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Press Release Ontario has released a proposed “Growth Plan for Northern Ontario” designed to set the region’s economy on a strong, globally-competitive footing. Over the next couple of months, Northern Ontario residents, youths, aboriginal peoples, community leaders, business, industry, and other experts will have the opportunity to help chart the […]

Press Release Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath is pleased the government finally is moving forward with a plan for full-day learning, but says families shouldn’t have been forced to wait six years for action. “Parents are facing real challenges and have been waiting a very long time for the help […]

Staff The OPP is looking for information following an act of vandalism at the Cranberry Peatlands Interpretive Trail in Alberton. Sometime between Oct. 18 and 20, a park bench the Rainy River Valley Field Naturalists had installed earlier this month was demolished and thrown into the pond. The bench—which has […]

Duane Hicks With daily headlines about viruses and vaccines pushing the possibility of a pandemic to the forefront of the public consciousness, the local Community Control Group has plans in place to keep essential services running just in case there ever is an outbreak. “Obviously, the H1N1 [’flu] has been […]

Duane Hicks While some members of the public have expressed concern over “cracks” in the reconstructed underpass, Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown told council Monday night that those are concrete construction joints and do not have to be repaired. “We’ve got these concrete construction joints that are within the […]

Heather Latter The H1N1 adjuvanted vaccine has arrived at the Northwestern Health Unit and immunization clinics are now underway. After kicking off yesterday in Rainy River, the clinics began today in Fort Frances while the first H1N1 vaccinations will be administered in Emo tomorrow starting at 9 a.m. The clinics, […]

Duane Hicks Town council approved the replacement of the grit removal system at the sewage treatment plant here at Monday night’s regular meeting—upgrades that will save the town a lot of money in the long run. Council awarded Tender No. 09-OF-14 to Venshore Mechanical Ltd. at a cost of $775,800 […]

The old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” has taken on new meaning after the completion of four “Photo Voice” projects developed here over the past year. Initiated by the Rainy River District Substance Abuse Prevention Team, the projects encompass a photographic technique used in health promotion and […]

Peggy Revell Those taking a stroll along the Cranberry Peatlands Interpretive Trail in Alberton now have a new place to rest their feet and take in the view thanks the site’s newest addition—benches in memory of the late Victor Raiche. “I know that my dad is smiling down right now […]

Staff The H1N1 adjuvanted vaccine has arrived at the Northwestern Health Unit and immunization clinics began in the district today, Dr. Jim Arthurs, the acting medical officer of health for the health unit, said this morning. Immunization clinics started this morning in Rainy River, as well as for health unit […]

Staff Asselin Transportation will continue to deliver recycling pickup for the Town of Fort Frances for the next five years. Town council awarded Tender No. 09-OF-15 (curbside garbage and recycling collection services) to Asselin Transportation at last night’s meeting. They will deliver curbside collection service for residents, and the supply […]

Staff Town council is being asked by the City of Dryden and Township of Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls to pass a resolution in support of the proposed re-design of Ontario’s Underserviced Area Program (UAP). In a release from Wade Petranik, CEO of the Dryden Regional Health Centre, he noted Northern Ontario […]