Duane Hicks Crews from Pioneer Construction laid the top layer of asphalt at the corner of Nelson Street and Portage Avenue yesterday afternoon. The intersection at Scott Street and Portage Avenue was closed for much of today for paving, with one lift of asphalt already having been laid on the […]
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Heather Latter Fort High studets cheered o their favourite players during the annual Homecoming football game Friday afternoon. Alas, the black-and-gold were blanked 51-0 by the visiting Vincent Massey Trojans of Winnipeg to fall to 0-2 on the young WHSFL season.
Duane Hicks Pharmacist Renate Winkler, left, chatted with Kelly Caul at the Pharamsave booth Saturday morning during the first-ever Chronic Pain Management and Addiction Prevention Symposium at the Townshend Theatre. The event, which featured plenty of information booths, presenters, and guest speaker Dr. Jackie Garnder-Nix, who will be offering a […]
Duane Hicks Pharmacist Renate Winkler, left, chatted with Kelly Caul at the Pharamsave booth Saturday morning during the first-ever Chronic Pain Management and Addiction Prevention Symposium at the Townshend Theatre. The event, which featured plenty of information booths, presenters, and guest speaker Dr. Jackie Garnder-Nix, who will be offering a […]
the OPP The Fort Frances OPP is seeking public assistance in locating a missing youth. Stephanie Nelson, 15, of Fort Frances is described as a First Nations female, 5’8” tall and 125 pounds with a slim build. She has shoulder-length dark brown hair, and was wearing a black T-shirt, blue […]
Staff The annual Homecoming game was one to forget for the Muskie football team on Friday afternoon. Fort High suffered its second-straight shutout defeat—this time dropping a 51-0 loss to the Vincent Massey Trojans. The two-pronged running attack of Drew Drabik and David Edmunds chewed up plenty of yardage for […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers split a series with the expansion K&A Wolverines on Friday and Saturday in Thunder Bay. The Lakers took the opener 3-2 thanks to a third-period goal from Brendan Muise. The line of Muise, Henry Gutierrez, and Tyler Stevensen accounted for all three Lakers’ goals, with […]
Staff One year after the Town of Fort Frances made a push for more people to get licences for their pets, more dogs and cats have got their tags. As first reported a year ago, only about two dozen canines had licences at that time. Since then, that number has […]
Staff Some Fort High students are heading off to France next March—and they’re hoping for some community support with a bottle drive fundraiser this Saturday (Sept. 26). “Come out and help support the kids, it’s for a really good cause,” encouraged Jessica Anderson, one of the teachers organizing the trip […]
Staff Construction crews put down the top lift of asphalt on Nelson Street, from Portage Avenue to Victoria Avenue, and on Victoria from Nelson Street to Front Street, on Saturday, with more paving to get underway this week. Nelson Street was closed to all traffic starting at 7 a.m. today […]
Staff 75 workers affected here AbitibiBowater announced yesterday it will be idling the #6 paper machine here indefinitely and cutting jobs as part of its newest round of corporate streamlining, which will see production suspended at several Canadian and U.S. mills. Local mill manager John Harrison said this morning that […]
Staff FORT FRANCES—Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. will amalgamate the two nursing floors at La Verendrye Hospital here onto one effective Oct. 12, with Complex Continuing Care and Pediatrics being moved down to St. Andrew’s. “Mainly it’s occurring because of low [patient] census,” Riverside president and CEO Wayne Woods explained […]
