Lucas Punkari With no losses to his name yet in high school badminton play and a berth at the all-Ontarios now secured, Muskie Taylor Whitehead just is trying to wrap his around what he’s accomplished over the last couple of weeks. “It’s pretty mind-blowing,” he admitted. “I’m just starting out […]
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Lucas Punkari A pair of Fort Frances hockey players will be going up against the top 1997 birthdate players in all of Ontario in two weeks. Thunder Bay Kings’ goalie Brandon Bodnar and Fort Frances Muskie defenceman Carter Brown will be playing for Team HNO at the OHL Gold Cup […]
Duane Hicks Fluorescent light bulbs contain chemicals like mercury that are harmful to environment. In fact, there’s supposedly enough mercury in one standard compact fluorescent bulb to poison about 1,000 gallons of water. This begs the question, what do you do with them when they burn out? Incandescent bulbs can […]
Heather Latter The Rainy River District Regional Abattoir recently received approval to slaughter chickens. In order to do so, however, it needs to purchase some additional equipment that will cost about $5,000. Since the abattoir is financially tapped out at this point, it is appealing to district residents to help […]
Duane Hicks In order to reduce recycling costs, the town will look into the possibility of having compactor bins replace the unmanned recycle bins located on Sixth Street West. Council received a report, entitled “Vol. No. 7—Northern Ontario: A Study of the Optimization of the Blue Box Material Processing System […]
Staff The Fort Frances Times has been fielding complaints lately from customers on RR1 routes in Alberton who have not been receiving their newspapers that are mailed to them each week via Canada Post. It seems the local post office has been having some mail delivery issues, especially in the […]
Heather Latter With “Tour de Fort” wrapping up its current season last Thursday night at the Townshend Theatre, the lineup for its 2013/14 was announced. And it’s already been deemed one of their best yet. “It’s a huge lineup,” enthused president Ken Avis. “We went all out, spent all the […]
Duane Hicks Those with impaired vision need not let that be a reason to stop going to the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre. The library has “adaptive technology” available that makes it much more easy for those with impaired vision or blindness to access information and enjoy the pleasures […]
Duane Hicks The time is coming for the federal government to find reconciliation with local Métis. That was the message delivered to the Sunset Country Métis community Sunday during a meeting to update the implications of recent court decisions regarding Métis rights. In an interview Monday, Métis rights lawyer Jason […]
Duane Hicks Fort Frances won’t be withholding payment from the Municipal Property Assessment Corp. (MPAC), but it will continue to work with other communities in the fight to consider a town’s economic status when determining property assessments. Dryden, Espanola, and Elk Lake, which along with Thunder Bay and other northern […]
Heather Latter After having accomplished in her life what she expected she would, such as starting her own business teaching music, getting married, and having children, Renée Martin-Brown still wasn’t satisfied with the impact she had left on the world. She kept asking herself, “How am I going to make […]
Lucas Punkari As his team came to grips with the fact their season had just ended, Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan made it quite clear that his squad shouldn’t feel sorry for themselves after falling 3-2 in double overtime to the Minnesota Wilderness in Game […]
