Duane Hicks Plans for the demolition of the old Rainy Lake Hotel are underway. But while Scott Street businesses approve tearing the vacant building down, they don’t want the work to interfere with the crucial Christmas shopping season. A pre-tender meeting for property owners and tenants of the 200 block […]
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Heather LatterLindsay Campbell The second-annual “Harmony of Nations” music and arts festival, held under the big tent at the Sorting Gap Marina here Friday and Saturday, saw an incredible display of talent by a variety of musical acts. It also drew higher attendance than last year’s inaugural event. “I think […]
Heather Latter Grade 8 graduation, high school graduation, and now law school graduation—Doug Judson and Allison Williams have been together for them all. The pair attended Donald Young School in Emo and then Fort Frances High School, but went their separate ways as they began their post-secondary education at different […]
Joey Payeur It certainly was a sweet 16 for an 11-year-old, with the sweetest catch of all proving to be a winning one. Davis Wielinga of Fort Frances and his older teammate, Shane Wepruk, claimed the first Safeway Pro-Am Fishing Tournament title Sunday at the Sorting Gap Marina. Wielinga showed […]
Lindsay Campbell “Harmony of Nations” headliner Ashley MacIsaac took the stage Saturday night and wowed the crowd with his fiddling talents. The festival, which took place Friday and Saturday under the big tent at the Sorting Gap Marina, featured a mix of local and out-of-town entertainment.
Lindsay Campbell OPP summer students Claire Sandelovich, left, and Tory Beaudry took a minute to try out the new fitness equipment at the Sorting Gap Marina. As well as the machine for upper-body training, a leg press also has been installed there.
Submitted This 1915 photo shows the McGauley family in one of the first cars in Barwick. Bob McGauley Sr. offered rides to the district farmers’ picnic for 25 cents. In commemoration of this event 100 years ago, Chapple Heritage and Chapple Recreation are hosting a picnic on Saturday, Aug. 1 […]
Joey Payeur Kristina “Hollywood” Bombay’s face told the story as the Fort Frances Her-icane slid home with the winning run as Red Gut Babes’ catcher Kayla Windigo checked for the call from umpire Kerry Gosselin. The Her-icanes rallied from a 10-0 deficit over the final two innings to win 13-12 […]
Press Release New Gold Inc. announced yesterday that it has entered into a $175-million streaming agreement with RGLD Gold AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Gold Inc. Under terms of the agreement, Royal Gold will provide New Gold with a deposit of $175 million, to be used for the ongoing […]
Staff In what was the pure definition of role reversal, the player who had been hitting all game scored the winning run thanks to a teammate who hadn’t had a hit until the very end. Trish Smith raced home on Misty Perreault’s RBI single to centre as Team Genny Brown […]
Lindsay Campbell Instructor Lindsay Hamilton, centre, gave Kaya Hammond, left, and Anna Gagne some helpful tips on papier maché this morning. Both girls are enrolled in Hamilton’s “Art Camp,” which is a week-long program run through the local campus of Confederation College. The youths are working to create a three-dimensional […]
Joey Payeur Team Kayla’s Dana Ward (Fort Frances Her-icanes) rifled this throw from third base to nab Team Genn’s Alyssa Windego (Red Gut Babes) at first during the Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League’s all-star game yesterday evening at Oltsher Field in Barwick.
