Heather Latter Carla Harris’ Grade 1 class at St. Michael’s School here was the winner of the “Winter Book Challenge” held there through January and February. The goal was for the students to read 2,011 books collectively, but they exceed that amount by reading a total of 2,991. Harris’ class […]
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Heather Latter Rod Davis worked on cleaning an old family marriage certificate Thursday night during the “Preserving Your Family Heirlooms” workshop at the Fort Frances Museum while his wife, Veronica, looked on. Eight people took part in the hands-on workshop, learning to preserve their own family treasures they had brought, […]
Heather Latter Wab Kinew entertained a full house Saturday night during the “Hometown Heroes” concert at the Couchiching multi-use facility. Organized by the United Native Friendship Centre’s Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth program as a trip fundraiser, the concert also featured performances by comedian Ryan McMahon, as well as singers […]
Lucas Punkari Barbara Ward (Port Arthur Curling Club) yelled out commands to her sweepers during the fifth end of Sunday night’s final at the 2011 Northern Ontario senior women’s provincial playdowns at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Ward’s rink defeated Barb McEwen (Port Arthur) 7-1 in seven ends to advance […]
Staff Severance pay for senior administration, an alleged confidentiality breach, and the actions of the former Rainy River District School Board once again will be on the table as the current board holds its regular monthly meeting tonight. Slated for 7 p.m. at Donald Young School in Emo, the issues […]
Staff The Muskie boys’ hockey team will have its playoff life on the line here tonight. The top squad during the NorWOSSA regular season finds itself knotted at a game apiece in their best-of-three semi-final series with the fourth-seeded Rams, who stunned the black-and-gold 9-5 yesterday afternoon in Red Lake. […]
Duane Hicks As a two-week shutdown of paper production continues until March 7 at the AbitibiBowater mill here, another two-week shutdown is in the cards for later this month. “We have notified our employees that due to challenging market conditions, paper production at our Fort Frances operation will be temporarily […]
Staff With the SIJHL regular season now in the books, the Fort Frances Lakers are preparing to kick off their post-season run this weekend against the league-leading Wisconsin Wilderness. The top two teams from the regular season are squaring off in a pair of two-game, total-goal mini series, with the […]
the OPP On Saturday (Feb. 26) around 10:20 a.m., Rainy River District OPP officers responded to the intersection of Scott Street and Central Avenue following the report of a commercial tractor-trailer losing a partial load of pulp logs onto the roadway. When officers arrived on the scene, they observed a […]
Heather Latter Ashley Johnson of Betty’s showed the location of the new front counter there this morning, which has been moved to the centre of the store as part of its recent renovations. Changes, including lower shelving, new carpeting, and painting, will be ongoing throughout the month while the basement […]
Heather Latter Kiwanis Club member Joan Foley drew the winning ticket for the Trip of the Month draw for March this morning at International Travel Services while fellow club member Robin Wright looked on. Robert Bourré of Dryden will be heading to Jamacia, a prize valued at $4,600. April’s prize […]
Lucas Punkari Boys’ squad leads Rams After a tightly-contested regular-season series between the two teams, the Muskie and Dryden Eagles girls’ hockey squads have carried their back-and-forth contests into the post-season. Splitting the first two games of their best-of-three NorWOSSA semi-final, the two squads now will battle it out tomorrow […]
