For the sixth-straight year, the Town of Fort Frances will be receiving money from the Moffat Family Fund to hand out to local groups and service clubs with the aim of helping youths and families. The Town of Fort Frances once again has been selected to receive $50,000 in funds […]
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MetalCORP Ltd. is pleased to announce a significant new diamond discovery in an area not previously known to contain diamonds. The North Rock and Cousineau properties consists of 15,000 acres, located 25 km east of Fort Frances. The diamonds are hosted in a large rock unit known as the Grassy […]
The Devlin 4-H club has been working on two projects for the past couple of months. We had a craft project where we used different materials and techniques to make crafts. We also had a project to learn to knit and purl. The next projects will be bread and baking. […]
In the recently-held election at the Lac La Croix First Nation, the following members were voted to positions of leadership: Leon Jourdain was re-elected as chief while Couns. Robert Atatise and Clayton Ottertail also were re-elected. Henry Ottertail was voted in as a new councillor.
The Fort Frances OPP detachment will be hosting an auxiliary policing recruitment information session next Tuesday (Feb. 12) at 7:30 p.m. in the committee room of the Civic Centre. OPP auxiliary members are a group of dedicated civilian volunteers who are trained to work alongside regular OPP police officers. The […]
The Fort Frances Canadians Midget ‘AA’ hockey team continued its season of strong performances with a pair of road wins on the weekend. The Canadians skated in the Duluth Junior Gold Invitational Tournament last Friday and Saturday and just missed qualifying for the tournament’s “final four” playoff round. The 16-team […]
The Northwestern Ontario Region 1 and 2 boys’ and girls’ Bantam playdowns were hosted by the Stratton curling club this past weekend. Although a few games had been played earlier in the day, the official opening ceremonies were held Friday at 7 p.m. Morley Reeve Gary Gamsby welcomed the curlers […]
The chalet was a flurry of activity early Saturday morning as volunteers geared up for the first-annual Rocky Cup Race, held by the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club at its Rocky Inlet trail system. As the scheduled 11 a.m. race time drew near, and ski boots were snapped into their […]
The local 99ers Brockie.org Atom ‘AA’ hockey team hosted Dryden, Kenora, Red Lake, and two teams from Thunder Bay for a tournament over the weekend. The 99ers opened round-robin play by blanking the Westfort Rangers 9-0 and then crushed the Red Lake Rockets 14-1 in their second game. The Dryden […]
Bolen, Lee, Bonot, Shrumm. If you take down a few photo albums from the shelf on the back wall of the Stratton curling club, it doesn’t take long to realize the community has an impressive history of producing champion curlers. You might wonder why that is. Many will tell you […]
The 49th-annual Northern Ontario Provincial Fire Fighters Curling Championships will take place this weekend (Feb. 8-10) at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Hosted by the Alberton firefighters, 22 teams will battle for the right to represent Northern Ontario at the national showdown March 26-April 4 in Richmond, B.C. This national […]
It was a near perfect weekend of ice oval racing for Curtis Boivin of Fort Frances. Boivin went undefeated Saturday through the heat races, and then on Sunday winning finals in Jr. II 14-15 600 cc Fan, Sport 600 Fan, Jr. II Sprint, Jr. III Sprint, and 550 Sprint. He […]
