The Rainy River District School Board approved a balanced budget of nearly $38 million for the 2007/08 school year at Tuesday night’s regular meeting here. Laura Mills, the board’s superintendent of education, noted the budget is smaller than in years past—largely due to declining enrolment. Generally, the board’s enrolment drops […]
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The local agriculture community is seeing some new faces around the area this year after three industry positions were filled in recent weeks. Michelle Denys, who just graduated from the University of Guelph, has taken over the position of intern for the Rainy River Soil and Crop. Improvement Association while […]
The season is over for Fort High’s golfers after they placed sixth out of eight teams at a tournament in Sioux Lookout on Thursday with a total score of 366. That left them tied for second with Dryden in league standings with 20 points, well behind top-ranked Red Lake, which […]
Four members of the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team came home winners from the NBA 3-on-3 tournament held in Winnipeg over the weekend, topping their eight-team division. “They really enjoyed it. It worked out well,” said Paul Noonan, coach of the Muskie team and part of the tournament’s quartet, which […]
The local Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that Fort Frances soon will crown its first Mini-King. The Chamber will be holding a Mini-King contest for the first time in conjunction with Mall Days on June 28. “We are really excited about the contest because we have had a […]
On Saturday around 7:30 a.m., Emo OPP officers investigated a motor vehicle collision on Highway #502, five km north of Cedar Narrows Road. The driver of a northbound truck trailering a boat crossed the centre line and collided with a southbound truck trailering a boat. A 55-year-old Kenosha, Wis. man […]
Third time wasn’t a charm at the Emo Speedway on Saturday as the weather again was the big story, with the modified feature set to cap off the night being cancelled due to rain. The rain—postponing the race until this Saturday—came after last week’s rain-out and a bitterly cold opening […]
Lorraine Gosselin signed her condolences to the family of the late Bryce Devoe, in the remeberance book at Walmart, yesterday afternoon. The local business has setup a memorial and donation box in their store for the community to share their thoughts and prayers with the family. —Amanda Roy photo
Murray Bullied of W.J. Bowman Ltd. drew a line for a co-worker to focus on while surveying the future site of Abitibi-Consolidateds biomass boiler Thursday afternoon in anticipation of site excavation starting on Monday, June 4. The $84.3 million projects foundation will be built over the summer, with the construction […]
OC Dylan Taylor demonstrated how the sheer legs work (which is a lifting device they use on board ships) on Saturday afternoon during the annual ceremonial review for the 144 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps (Fort Frances). A number of awards were presented and the cadets also displayed projects of […]
Sabrina Miller, and her four-legged friend, Furrn, participated in the Voyageur Lions Club, Dog Guides Walk on Sunday afternoon. Seven participants and their dogs walk from Pither’s Point Park to the Sorting Gap Marina to raise unds for the Guide Dog facility in Oakville, On. The group raised a total […]
Jordan Larson, 12, practices his swing at the Kitchen Creek golf course Saturday morning. The young linkster was out with his friends and an assortment of other youths, learning the basics of the sport and how to improve their game. –Justin Holmes photo
