Heather Latter Grade 3 students from St. Michael’s School performed a song and choral reading entitled “The Road to Bethlehem” during their dress rehearsal there yesterday. The concert for the Grades 1-3 was staged last night while the JK/SK concert will go Monday night.
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Dan Falloon Muskie Justin Anderson looked over all his options against the Baudette Bears last night. The black-and-gold won 48-39 in the first game of their senior boys’ basketball tournament at Fort High, with action continuing today and tomorrow.
Peggy Revell Senior kindergarten students in Dorothy Quibbell’s class at J.W. Walker yesterday rehearsed the song they will be singing at their Christmas concert on Tuesday (Dec. 15) at 6:30 p.m. The school also has two other concerts scheduled—Dec. 16 for Grades 1-3 and Dec. 17 for Grades 4-8.
Duane Hicks New street sign posts started appearing around Fort Frances last month—and now the new street signs themselves have been going up this week. The series of blue signs tie into Phase II of the Heritage Tourism Project, which also included the re-location of the Hallett and lookout tower […]
Heather Latter Grade 2/3 students at F.H. Huffman School yesterday recited a poem on the Townshend Theatre stage during the dress rehearsal for their Christmas concert which will take place there tonight at 7 p.m.
Staff It seems that no lead is safe around the Fort Frances Lakers (6-18-3). The Lakers quickly coughed up advantages twice in last night’s 7-4 road loss to the second-place Dryden Ice Dogs (22-3-3). Fort Frances opened the scoring when Tyler Stevenson’s power-play marker beat Peter Emery with just 23 […]
Dan Falloon Another day, another goal short for the Muskie girls’ hockey team. The black-and-gold were bumped 2-1 by the International Falls Broncos here Tuesday night for their third-straight one-goal loss. Fort High had fall 3-2 to the Broncos across the river on Friday and then 2-1 to the host […]
Staff With Old Man Winter having made his return for another year, some snowmobilers already have been taking their sleds out for a spin. But before they hit the trails, they should keep in mind the municipal bylaws that govern the use of snowmobiles within town limits. The bylaws state: […]
Press Release District residents likely have noticed something new by now—school buses equipped with strobe lights. School bus drivers will be using the protective lights to improve visibility of the bus when transporting students. This initiative was made possible through Safe Communities Rainy River District (formerly the Rainy River Valley […]
Staff The Fort Frances Power Corp. restored power to street lights from Central Avenue to Crowe Avenue this morning after a fuse blew twice last night, causing an outage. FFPC CEO Joerg Ruppenstein said an insulator wire had come undone, and was grounding out, which caused a fuse to blow. […]
Staff With the holiday season underway, the OPP have been very busy with the annual R.I.D.E. program across Rainy River District. During the first week of the program (Nov. 27-Dec. 4), officers checked 2,365 vehicles in total. One person was charged with an impaired driving offence while there have been […]
Heather Latter While there is still very sporadic cases of H1N1 activity in the region, the Northwestern Health Unit indicates there’s been a decrease in activity. “Overall, the activity has lessened in our region,” said Arlene Lesenke, director of health protection for the health unit. “The whole point of the […]
