Press Release Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP John Rafferty is reminding all constituents, groups, and organizations in his riding that this Friday (June 12) is the deadline for applications to the federal government’s Community Adjustment Fund. The $1-billion fund, introduced in the last federal budget, is designed to “help mitigate the […]
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Staff The Muskie boys’ soccer team made serious strides at the all-Ontarios in Hamilton last week but fell short of its goal of a quarter-final berth. After tying their opening two games on Thursday against Courtice Secondary School (0-0) and E.S. Theriault (1-1), the Muskies lost 2-1 to St. Joseph’s […]
Staff The entire 2009 budget will be explained at a public meeting tonight, after which time council will vote on bylaws to pass the 2009 budget estimates and accompanying tax rates to support the municipal levy. As previously reported, residential taxpayers will be looking at a 1.1 percent increase. During […]
Duane Hicks Six detainees at the Ge-Da-Gi-Binez Youth Centre here have been removed temporarily from the facility after a pair of staff members were assaulted there last Wednesday evening. An altercation took place in the recreation yard which resulted in five male youths assaulting two staff, Anne Smith, a spokesperson […]
Staff An Elliot Lake woman was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries yesterday after a single-vehicle accident on Highway 11 just east of Manion Lake Road. The 62-year-old driver had been travelling westbound at a high rate of speed in her 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser when she lost control of […]
Peggy Revell Dozens of dancers, including these ballerinas, took to the Townshend Theatre stage on Friday and Saturday nights as part of Fort Dance Studio’s 10th-annual Core and Elite divisions recital.
Elisabeth Heslop Jacques Fiset, president of the Fort Frances Lions Club, replaced ordinary bricks with special engraved ones yesterday afternoon in the annual memorial bricks ceremony at the Lions Park on Second Street East. For the second year, the brick-laying ceremony was part of the Dand-e-Lion Festival, which Lions member […]
Peggy Revell Early Hudson’s Bay Company objects are just some of many historical items showcased at the Chapple Museum, which hosted its annual spring tea on Saturday. The afternoon gave the public a chance to drop by and see both old and new items, including those on loan for this […]
Mitch Calvert Girls bounced from contention By the time you read this, the Muskie boys’ soccer team will know whether or not they have advanced to the quarter-finals at this year’s all-Ontarios in Hamilton. Battling three other teams for the second playoff berth out of Pool ‘B,’ the black-and-gold had […]
Peggy Revell Residents who have a message for Premier Dalton McGuinty about the economy will have a chance to pass it along when the Ontario Federation of Labour’s “Drive to Work” (DRV2WRK) caravan passes through Fort Frances on Monday. “One of the things that we’re doing with the ‘Drive to […]
Elisabeth Heslop Heavy machinery worked on clearing out the future site of the new Robert Moore School here yesterday afternoon. The giant mound of sand and gravel had been put in place there earlier this year to compact the underlying soil in preparation for construction.
Elisabeth Heslop Joanna Oberg and her nine-year-old Alaskan husky, “Tulsa,” were at the local Travel Information Centre’s open house this morning as part of Tourism Week. Oberg and her family own Agimac River Outfitters, on Indian Lake, and Run Silent Dog Sled Trips, both near Ignace. Other displays at the […]
