Heather Latter “Jo” (played by Maggie Gauthier) and “Laurie” (Maxwell Williams) performed the song “Five Forever” last Wednesday during opening night of the musical “Little Women” performed by students of Fort Frances High School. The production ran on the Townshend Theatre stage through Saturday.
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Press Release Due to recent heavy rainfall, Highway 587 near Thunder Bay is closed at Joe Creek, 17 km south of Highway 11/17 (three km in from the Sleeping Giant Provincial Park entrance), due to washout. Repairs are underway. A timeline is dependent on the water level dropping. Meanwhile, Highway […]
Duane Hicks General contractor Tom Jones is continuing work on a single-storey addition on the north side of J.W. Walker School, which will be completed in time for the full-day Early Learning program there this fall. J.W. Walker, along with Donald Young School in Emo and Sturgeon Creek School in […]
It will be clear but cold tonight, with an overnight low of minus-two C (28 F) and north winds at five m.p.h. Tomorrow will be sunny, with a high of 18 (64) and low around six (43). Expect southeast winds at five-10 m.p.h. Saturday also will be mainly sunny, with […]
Sarah Pruys Half the usual number of students were able to put together a two-and-a-half hour musical in half the usual amount of time this spring at Fort Frances High School. The 22 students performing in “Little Women” only had eight weeks to rehearse, but that didn’t stop the musical […]
the OPP The Fort Frances OPP is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing teen. Madisyn DeGagne left her residence at 8 p.m. yesterday. She advised family members she was going for a walk with a friend and did not return. The last communication family members had was […]
Staff The Muskie boys’ soccer team are a win away from their third-straight NorWOSSA crown after clinching the top seed in the playoffs in their regular-season finale yesterday in Kenora. With a 3-2 win over the host Broncos in the final game of the day, the black-and-gold wrapped up the […]
Staff Hydro One customers in Halkirk, Watten, and Fairnington Townships, as well as Red Gut First Nation, can expect a planned power interruption tomorrow (May 24). The outage will start at 10:30 a.m., with power being restored by noon. Hydro One said the interruption, which will affect 527 customers, is […]
Sarah Pruys Tara Grant, left, Chelsea Mosley, Kaitlyn Chiasson, Sarah Glover, Adrian Gurski, Thomas LePine, Jenna Wilson, Jillian Gustafson, and Meghan Metke, who will be graduating from Fort High next month, “worked” at Boston Pizza yesterday evening to fundraise for the annual “chem-free” party following graduation. They shadowed employees from […]
Duane Hicks With the Emo Walleye Classic set to go tomorrow, the Rainy River is at a 10-year high for this time of year, having come up six feet in the last week. The water level on Rainy Lake, meanwhile, rose by a foot over the past seven days—thanks to […]
Sarah Pruys Gillons’ employees Tyler Cousineau and Sue Hanson flanked Cathy Wrolstad, who was retiring yesterday after 24 years with the company as an insurance broker. She wanted to have a good-bye barbecue that doubled as a “Relay For Life” fundraiser. With Gillons’ matching the $742 raised at the lunch, […]
Gary Sliworsky A new online course, “Improve Your Sheep Nutrition Management Skills,” has been developed by Dr. Paul Luimes, researcher at the University of Guelph (Ridgetown campus). This general‐interest course was developed with support from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ministry of Rural […]
