Press Release The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce would like to congratulate the winners, and thank all participants, of this year’s “Quest for Canada’s Best Window Display” contest. The contest asked local businesses to decorate their storefront windows to represent famous Canadians, and ran the week leading up to Canada […]
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the MNR A total of 530 Deer Lake residents have now been safely evacuated from their community which is threatened by nearby forest fires. Forest fires had been burning as close as 3.5 km from the remote Northwestern Ontario community. At the request of Deer Lake First Nation Chief Roy […]
Staff Three new fires were reported in the Northwest Region by the end of yesterday while seven others were declared “out.” Red Lake Fire #72 currently is classed as “not under control” at 10 hectares in size. It is located 70 km west-northwest of Pikangikum. Red Lake Fire #73, meanwhile, […]
Heather Latter St. Michael’s School principal Brendan Hyatt helped Dominick Rousseau-Krikke yesterday while building birdhouses there under the supervision of Henry Miller. Several children are taking part in a two-week summer learning program called “Camp Read S’More,” which focuses on literacy. The program is a pilot project run by the […]
Duane Hicks Mathew Nowak checked out “Grand Daughter’s Wedding Gift,” a painting by his grandmother, Jean Richards, which is part of her new exhibit, “Laundry Here, There and Everywhere,” at the Fine Line Art Gallery on Mowat Avenue. The exhibit documents the subject of laundry based on photographs taken at […]
Lucas Punkari Despite being involved in two late-race incidents, Fort Frances native Steve Arpin still drove to a 12th-place finish last night in his second start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Starting the UNOH 225 at the Kentucky Speedway in Sparta in 13th position, Arpin was running just […]
the OPP Two people are dead following separate accidents on area highways early yesterday. Just after midnight, OPP officers responded to a single motor-vehicle accident on Highway 17, about 10 km east of the Highway 71 junction. The accident occurred when a westbound Pontiac Montana left the highway, struck a […]
Staff Fort Frances is a popular stop for epic canoe trips this summer. Mountains2Montreal stopped here early this week, and now the TransCanEauda Canoe Project will be passing through tonight or tomorrow as part of a 7,000-km trek that began in Ottawa on May 28 and will end at the […]
Staff A brief tornado warning issued by Environment Canada on Monday evening was too late to warrant use of the emergency sirens in Fort Frances. “It was about nine o’clock that it was issued, but at the point it was issued . . . the storm cell was past us,” […]
Heather Latter Confederation College last week celebrated a $100,000 contribution from Tbaytel, which will give students within the School of Health and Community Services, at all campuses across the region, access to state-of-the-art technology. The announcement was made by Don Campbell, Tbaytel president and CEO, and Confederation College president Pat […]
No one is laughing when they do grocery shopping as prices have climbed by a whopping 10 percent in recent months. Companies are passing on the higher costs of inputs, such as corn-based products, which have risen by more than 30 percent in the past year. There have been other […]
Duane Hicks Local OPP Cst. Anne McCoy and OPP Commissioner Christopher D. Lewis looked over an OPP business plan during his visit to the Fort Frances detachment late yesterday afternoon to meet with officers, members of town council, and the Police Services Board as part of a tour of the […]
