Press Release After a long winter, summer is a time when Canadians like to get out and go camping, boating, golfing, and many other outdoor activities. Each year, however, lighting kills about 10 Canadians and injures roughly 100-150 others. Environment Canada would like to remind Canadians to be aware of […]
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the MNR A Fort Frances man has been fined $40,000 for a number of charges related to his deer-hunting business. Grant Gustafson pleaded guilty to hunting swimming deer, chasing deer with a motorboat, discharging a firearm from a motorboat, unlawfully hunting wolves, killing moose without a licence, attaching a game […]
VNP Join Voyageurs National Park aquatic ecologist Geof Smith in an exploration of the life and death of the stars, and how these cosmic events are connected to life on Earth. Meet inside the Rainy Lake Visitor Center this Friday (June 15) at 9 p.m. The two-hour program begins with […]
Anthony Leek Paull again dominates A hot day of racing was in store as fans piled into the grandstand to check out some great Amsoil Dirt Track Racing Series action for the fourth-straight Saturday at the Emo Speedway. Plenty of rookies were on hand in the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds as […]
Lucas Punkari After a three-year absence, youth football is in the process of returning here. The man in charge of putting together the team is Ken Matthews, a former Muskie player and currently a defensive coach with the program. “Currently, we are getting a nice core of kids who are […]
Lucas Punkari Although they failed to make it to the playoff round at the OFSAA ‘AA’ boys’ soccer championships in North Bay last week, the Muskies were able to accomplish something they haven’t done in nearly a decade. In their final game of Pool ‘A’ play Friday afternoon, the black-and-gold […]
Heather Latter Called “Friends of Rachel” (FOR) Clubs, groups of students from eight different schools across Rainy River District continue to spread the theory that “if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same.” Those words, written […]
Sarah Pruys Kenneth Young, 64, recently received both an invitation to give a workshop on Agent Orange on the “Peace Boat” and a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his volunteer work with veterans’ groups. His wife, Chris, said Young specifically addresses Agent Orange issues. “It is a pollutant, […]
Lucas Punkari Although they failed to make it to the playoff round at the OFSAA ‘AA’ boys’ soccer championships in North Bay last week, the Muskies were able to accomplish something they haven’t done in nearly a decade. In their final game of Pool ‘A’ play Friday afternoon, the black-and-gold […]
Heather Latter Every year before she started school, Jade Dittaro’s parents would ask her what she wanted to be when she grew up. And each year since she was three years old, the former Fort Frances resident would give the same answer: a doctor. But it was an incident back […]
Duane Hicks Council will start looking at whether the town should buy the old Rainy Lake Hotel and move ahead with partners to develop the property into a “market square.” During a presentation by Rainy River Future Development Corp. consultant Tannis Drysdale at Monday night’s meeting, she noted the Rainy […]
Duane Hicks Check your sump pump The town continues to see too much groundwater and surface water infiltrating its sanitary sewer system, but residents can help out by making sure their sump pump is not discharging directly into that system. Coun. Paul Ryan, who sits on the Operations and Facilities […]
