the OPP Officers from the Rainy River District Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a complaint of a possible impaired driver at a local service station parking lot around 10 p.m. on Sunday. A a male was observed outside a vehicle, attempting to stop a female driver, […]
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Santa and his reindeer will have to fly through some snow tonight, with an accumulation of less than one inch possible. He’ll see a low around minus-18 C (one below zero F) and southwest winds five to 10 m.p.h. After Santa heads back to the North Pole, we can expect […]
Joey Payeur “Once a job has begun, Be it big, be it small, Do it well Or not at all.” Bruce McLeod’s tireless work ethic hearkens back to that little sign posted near his father’s workplace toolbox while he was a millwright at the local paper mill. “You don’t realize […]
Heather Latter With the local Voyageur Lions Club’s annual “Polar Plunge” once again set for New Year’s Day, organizers are hoping the fundraiser will be a successful one. But in order to do that, they’re urging more “jumpers” to sign up. “We have about 21 confirmed so far,” noted Bill […]
Staff The LED lights along the riverfront no longer are “on the blink.” Last week, the Fort Frances Power Corp. repaired and re-installed the series of lights stretching from La Verendrye Hospital to just before the Sorting Gap Marina. The lights had been experiencing a malfunction in which they periodically […]
Duane Hicks Getting fingerprinted for background checks will be a lot easier in future once the local OPP detachment gets new technology here. OPP detachment commander Insp. Steve Shouldice told the Police Services Board on Friday that he’s hoping to get “live scan” fingerprinting here. It’s been announced the OPP […]
Sarah Pruys The Grade 11 woodworking class at Fort Frances High School has been busy with an extra-curricular project this term in conjunction with the local branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association. Gerri Yerxa, psychogeriatric resource consultant at the CMHA here, said the project is designed for seniors experiencing […]
Joey Payeur Molly Carlson viewed it as a glorified training session. The powers that be at Diving Canada had other ideas—and their intuition proved correct. The 15-year-old Fort Frances native, who now calls Thunder Bay home, placed second in the women’s Group ‘A’ (age 16-18) 3m springboard finals at the […]
Joey Payeur It went farther than he planned, but in the end Ethan Armit’s shot at national music glory missed the net. The Fort Frances native, who now lives in Dryden, and his band Ethan Armit Project got their song, “This Game Called Hockey,” through the first round of voting […]
Joey Payeur Silver Bay, Silver Bay, it’s Muskie time in your city. The Silver Bay (Mn.) Mariners got to experience the tidal wave of Muskie power that has swept over the NorWOSSA circuit so far this season, losing 8-3 to the black-and-gold in an exhibition game there Saturday. “We got […]
Duane Hicks A new First Nations’ engineering firm has become official, with four partners having signed on the dotted line at La Place Rendez-Vous here earlier this fall but which only recently was approved by Rainy River First Nations. RRFN, Naicatchewenin Development Corp., Saulteaux Consulting & Engineering, and TBT Engineering […]
Sarah Pruys With the holiday shopping season in full swing, local merchants are mixed on how sales have been to date. Some are finding gift-givers are staying in town to do their shopping. Others, however, feel people are heading online and to the cities. “We’ve been very pleased with sales […]
