Duane Hicks After 11 years as Chamber manager, Dawn Booth is leaving the post. Booth, who last day on the job was today, is starting a position with Service Ontario, located in the local Ministry of Natural Resources’ building, on Monday. Booth, who first started as Chamber manager back on […]
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Duane Hicks Sam McKinnon, left, and Marita Matias admired each others’ watercoulour paintings yesterday during the Art Express Camp at the Townshend Theatre. They and their fellow campers did the paintings after getting tips from local artist Pam Hawley. Youths attending the week-long town-run camp, which ended today, also learned […]
Mitch Calvert Keeper Jameson Shortreed let one go for Emo during Borderland Soccer men’s action yesterday evening at the St. Francis Sportsfields. Shortreed and his Emo squad lost 2-1 to Pharmasave to drop to 4-5-1 on the season while Pharmasave improved to 5-3-4. Domino’s (which was idle last night) currently […]
Mitch Calvert Gillons’ kicked their way to a 4-2 win over Taggs in women’s Borderland Soccer league action yesterday. The defending champs improved to 6-1 on the season with the win on goals by Caitlyn Hyatt, Laureen Peters, Sara Roach, and Alyssa Holiday while Taggs got goals from Nicole Dorie […]
Peggy Revell Jeremy Trenchard, foreground, and fellow campers Kolton Ewen and Gavin Brumwell held up some of their turtle friends owned by camp director Mark Mast (background)—part of the many hands-on activities for children attending the Canadian Sunday School Mission’s Junior Bible Camp at Sunny Cove this week.
Peggy Revell Connor and Liam Dent spun the big wheel set up in the Fort Frances Public Library’s children’s department for this summer’s reading program. With programs launching this week, the theme is all about detectives, mystery, and sleuthing.
Elisabeth Heslop Alberton council has decided to put off making a decision on the application for a zoning bylaw amendment made by township resident Gayle Arpin until next month. Last night’s meeting was the earliest at which council could have made a decision on the controversial issue which drew roughly […]
Duane Hicks After being idled back on March 1 due to poor market conditions, the #6 paper machine at the AbitibiBowater mill here was re-started this week to run tests to see if it could be used to produce different types of paper and thus make its operation more viable […]
Staff Reconstruction of the Portage Avenue underpass will resume next week, starting what will be the final portion of work on the project that first began in 2007. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said late yesterday that JTJ Contracting Ltd. will start to set up temporary traffic control lights […]
Staff With the reconstruction of portions of Victoria Avenue (Front to Nelson), Nelson Street (Victoria to Portage), and Veterans Avenue nearing an end, Bay City Contracting Ltd. now will be proceeding to Phase II of the biomass roads project—Portage Avenue from Nelson Street to First Street East. Operations and Facilities […]
Staff The Parks and Cemeteries department will be giving away surplus flowers to residents free of charge tomorrow morning (July 10). From 8 a.m.-noon, flowers will be available for pick-up in the parking lot at Pither’s Point Park (between the “big chair” and office building). There will be a limit […]
Press Release Northern Ontario communities are promoting and strengthening their arts and heritage programming, which, in turn, will help attract tourists and create jobs. The communities are collaborating on the Community Arts and Heritage Education Project (CAHEP). The project will bring workshops and seminars in arts education, heritage, and culture […]
