The Associated Press New Yorkers with a taste for an expensive city staple will have an opportunity to try the $1,000 bagel when it returns to the city next month. The Westin New York hotel in Times Square says it’s bringing back the extravagant bagel for a limited time after […]
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The Associated Press Excerpts of letters written by a young Barack Obama to a girlfriend. The letters were released by Emory University. ——— September 1982, New York City “I must admit large dollops of envy for both groups, my American friends consuming their life in the comfortable mainstream, the foreign […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press A chill is finally in the air, which transforms what goes on our table. Winter squash, hardy greens like kale and chard, cabbage, cauliflower, and sweet potatoes are filling the markets and my recipe-testing table. The colder weather has me craving filling side dishes […]
By Rod McGuirk THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian auto manufacturing era is about to end after more than 90 years when General Motors Co.’s last Holden sedan rolls off the production line in the industrial city of Adelaide on Friday. The nation has already begun mourning the […]
Mike BehanEditor World silver-medalists. It’s a title Stratton siblings Trevor Bonot and Jackie McCormick now hold following the world mixed curling championships last week in Champéry, Switzerland. “I don’t think it has truly sunk in yet,” Bonot admitted yesterday in an e-mailed response to the Times. “It was such a […]
Nicholas Donaldson It has been a difficult week for Rhonda Snow, who was forced to sell 23 of her 50 horses in Grunthal, Man. on Saturday. Twenty of those animals were the rare Ojibway ponies that Snow keeps on her farm–something she is very proud of and a breed she […]
Nicholas Donaldson Some local students now are able to say hockey is their favourite subject at school. The Rainy River District School Board’s inaugural hockey skills academy has begun, with 28 Grade 7 and 8 students at Fort Frances High School (10 girls and 18 boys) enrolled for the 2017-18 […]
Staff The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association will be in the district next week to provide a unique opportunity for local producers. A town hall-style meeting, one of only a few held every year, will take place Wednesday, Oct. 25 at the Millennium Hall in Stratton. A full evening is planned, with […]
Tonight will see patchy clouds and an overnight low of one C (34 F). Tomorrow will be mostly sunny, with a high of 18 (64) and low around six (43). Partly cloudy skies are forecast for Friday, along with a high of 20 (68) and low dipping to 13 (55). […]
of Laurel Beager Minnesota Lt.-Gov. Tina Smith (centre), surrounded by members of the local airport commission, enthusiastically cut the ribbon to officially open the new terminal at Falls International Airport last Tuesday.
Duane Hicks At long last, the first refugee family from Iraq should be coming to Fort Frances by mid-November. “They have received information from the Canadian embassy that they will be coming in the middle of November,” Kathy Mueller of the “Families for Families” committee told the Times on Friday. […]
Dear editor, Lots of coverage has been devoted to Prime Minister Trudeau’s trip to Washington, D.C. last week and what that means for the future of NAFTA, however, little attention has been given to the dramatic NAFTA lawsuit here in Canada. Lone Pine Resources is using NAFTA’s Chapter 11 to […]
