Duane Hicks Nicole Cain, left, Wendy Brunetta, and Nadia Felix, along with the rest of the Fort Frances Choraliers, performed this year’s Christmas cantata, “Hope Has Hands,” on Sunday afternoon at St. Mary’s Church here. The performance, which was narrated by Darrin Ward and preceded by the Rainy Lake Ringers […]
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The Associated Press WASHINGTON—The federal tribe has spoken: A contaminated monkey skull, termite-infested statues, and other African artifacts of the TV show “Survivor” will not be allowed into the U.S. Officials say Customs inspectors in Houston seized a variety of restricted items that were being shipped to the U.S. in […]
Duane Hicks With Christmas just nine days away, last-minute shoppers who remain stumped as to what to get someone for Christmas, or who simply don’t have time to track down that special gift, can turn to Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce gift certificates. Gift certificates sales this Christmas season are […]
Staff Residents may be shivering in the bone-chilling, mid-December cold snap that’s been gripping Borderland, but it also can produce some pretty scenes like these hoarfrost-covered trees behind the Fort Frances Times office.
Peggy Revell Dressed up as reindeer, Senior Kindergarten students at Robert Moore went through their Christmas concert dress rehearsal this morning. The actual concert goes tonight at 7 p.m. in the school gym.
Press Release OPP officers were notified of a theft that occurred sometime between last Wednesday night and the early-morning hours of Thursday. The theft occurred in the parking lot near Timberwolf Lodge Road, which in on Highway 502 about 40 km north of Highway 11. The parking lot is vacant now, […]
Duane Hicks While tax levies, along with sewer and water rates, won’t be decided until later in the 2009 budget process, Fort Frances residents will see a three percent jump for most user fees, with a greater hike for waste management services, in the coming year. Councillors received the 2009 […]
Staff The Muskie girls’ hockey team finally got the monkey off their backs. After a pair of tournament-final losses in Altona and Dryden last month, the Muskies took the next step with a 5-2 win over their NorWOSSA rivals, the Kenora Broncos, in the final of the first-annual Saints Christmas […]
Mitch Calvert The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres keep proving their doubters wrong. Despite failing to add some offensive weapons prior to the preliminary Dec. 1 trade deadline, the squad has rattled off four-straight wins ever since, including a pair of road victories over the Schreiber Diesels on the weekend. The […]
Mitch Calvert Jordan Sinclair, a forward with the Fort Frances Canadians Midget ‘AA’ squad, looked to rag the puck past Tarran Romyn of the Northwestern Ontario Bantam All-stars (also a member of the local Taggs Bantam ‘AA’ squad) during an exhibition game yesterday at the Ice for Kids Arena. Romyn […]
Mitch Calvert Muskie Garnet Cornell looked for an open man during the senior boys’ 56-53 win over Churchill (Thunder Bay) on Saturday at the “Fish Tank.” Cornell drained a late three-pointer that put his team up by 10 points in the fourth quarter, and the Muskies held on to finish […]
Duane Hicks Tim Fowler had his snow blower out early this morning along Third Street West as Borderland residents dug out from yesterday’s blizzard-like storm. Old Man Winter also wreaked havoc further east, with Highway 17 being closed east of Thunder Bay earlier today due to hazardous road conditions.
