Dave Ogilvie Major renovations and an expansion are taking place at Tompkins Home Hardware in Emo over the next several weeks. Although shelves are being moved and products relocated, the store remains open. If you are looking for something specific, just ask any of the staff.
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Duane Hicks Like so many other Borderland residents, Murray Beninger spent his afternoon Sunday clearing snow from his Front Street residence. The area received a dump of more than 25 cm (10 inches) of the white stuff on Saturday to go on top of an already heavy accumulation of snow […]
Peggy Revell Little Natalie Paige Seguin was the first baby born in Rainy River District for 2009. Originally due on New Year’s Eve, she was born at La Verendrye Hospital at 12:23 a.m. on Jan. 1 weighing in at seven pounds, 12 oz. Proud parents are her mom, Katie, and […]
Mitch Calvert Kyle Perry looked to score for the Rusty Myers Flyers during men’s league hockey action Sunday night at the Ice for Kids Arena. Perry and the Flyers beat North Air 9-3.
the OPP Son is facing some charges The OPP is continuing its investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of 50-year-old Barbara Dawyduk of Fort Frances, who was found deceased in her home at 707 Third St. W. on the morning of Jan. 1. A post-mortem examination was conducted Saturday […]
Staff The Rainy River District School Board will hold its regular monthly meeting tonight (Jan. 6) at 7 p.m. at Robert Moore School. On the agenda includes a report from the board’s policy committee, which last met on Dec. 8. It will be presenting a motion for the board to […]
Mitch Calvert Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ defenceman Mario Boivin, foreground, and the rest of his teammates were put through a hard skating and conditioning practice at the Ice for Kids Arena this morning in preparation for the second half of the SIJHL season, which kicks off for them this Friday […]
The Canadian Press FORT FRANCES, Ont. — The 19-year-old son of a Fort Frances, Ont., woman who was found dead in her home on New Year’s Day has been arrested. Jamie Dawyduk faces two counts of assault causing bodily harm, one count of mischief and one count of breach of […]
The Canadian Press SPARWOOD, B.C.—“Here’s to the boys.” Some 2,000 mourners shouted out that phrase in unison yesterday in a vocal tribute to eight snowmobilers who were swept to their deaths in a string of avalanches a week earlier. To the strains of bagpipers, mourners filed into the local hockey […]
The Associated Press LONDON—A mixed-race British couple has defied the odds—twice—by producing two sets of twins in which one sibling appears to be black and the other white. Dean Durrant’s newborn daughter, Miya, has dark skin like him. Twin sister, Leah, has fair skin like her blue-eyed, red-haired mother, Alison […]
The Associated Press ROCHESTER, Mich.—They’re twins, all right, despite what their spanking new birth certificates say. Tariq Griffin entered the world at 12:17 a.m. on New Year’s Day at Crittenton Hospital in Rochester, Mich. His twin brother, Tarrance, was born a bit earlier—26 minutes to be exact. That means the […]
Peggy Revell Some students were granted a little longer Christmas holiday after J.W. Walker School was closed for today due to mechanical issues. “We have sporadic heat, I guess is what you would say,” Raymond Roy, the public school board’s manager of plant operations and maintenance, said this morning. “So […]
