Staff Mark it on your calendar–this year’s Household Hazardous Waste Day here will take place on Saturday, Sept. 16. Town council approved the Miller Group of Winnipeg as its Municipal Special or Hazardous Waste (MSHW) service provider at its regular meeting Monday night. The event once again will take place […]
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By Frank Bajak And David Koenig The Associated Press HOUSTON — If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step toward a surveillance state. The Department of Homeland Security says it’s the […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK — Moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong during the first lunar landing is being sold at a New York auction. The lunar dust plus some tiny rocks that Armstrong also collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million […]
By Jill Colvin The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A group of girls from Afghanistan are finally getting their wish of coming to the United States for a robotics competition. The girls’ applications for U.S. visas had been denied twice, but the White House says President Donald Trump intervened and they […]
By Candice Choi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — McDonald’s is hoping to make a difference in its future seven seconds at a time. The company that helped define fast food is making supersized efforts to reverse its fading popularity and catch up to a landscape that has evolved around […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Sometimes, it’s just too hot to turn on the stove. The key is to stock up your kitchen with “healthy convenience food” that doesn’t require any heat, such as fresh produce, canned beans, canned fish and small boxes of pre-cooked legumes found in the […]
Nicholas Donaldson The second intake period for the Sustainable New Agri-Food Products & Productivity (SNAPP) funding program is officially open, with applications being accepted until Aug. 31. SNAPP supports Northern Ontario agriculture and food producers, businesses, collaborations, communities, and First Nations by providing funding for projects involved in local food […]
Press Release The International Rainy and Namakan Lakes Rule Curves Study Board submitted its final report, entitled “Managing Water Levels and Flows in the Rainy River Basin,” to the International Joint Commission on June 30. The IJC established the study board in the summer of 2015 and charged it “to […]
Staff A total of 93 complaints regarding government organizations, municipalities, and schools in the Kenora/Rainy River riding were filed with the Office of the Ombudsman of Ontario in 2016-17. The annual report from Ombudsman Paul Dubé stated that between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2017, the Town of Fort […]
Kiera KowalskiSummer reporter St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Fort Frances is turning 70 this weekend. To celebrate the occasion, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, Metropolitan Yurij, will visit and perform a special service Sunday beginning at 10 a.m. The Metropolitan will be greeted at the […]
Duane Hicks Have your say. A public meeting to garner input on the proposed Erin Crescent subdivision is slated for Thursday, July 27 at 7 p.m. at the Civic Centre. As reported late last month, the town is eyeing the property in the east end of town to develop into […]
Duane Hicks Fort Frances is seeing a bit of a building boom. In addition to new homes being built at the Huffman Court subdivision, a new hotel and a Great Canadian Oil Change are in the cards this year, along with two more apartment buildings. A sign recently was erected […]
