The Muskie boys’ soccer team kicked off what promises to be an exciting season this afternoon with an exhibition game in Rainy River. The squad then travels to Winnipeg on Friday afternoon to compete in the annual St. John’s Ravenscourt invitational tournament over the weekend. Muskie head coach Shane Beckett […]
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Three members of the Muskie badminton team excelled at the NWOSSAA championships in Thunder Bay last Wednesday, with each one bringing home a medal. Senior player Natalie Desjardins led the Muskie charge, going undefeated in the girls’ singles division en route to the gold medal and a berth at the […]
The Town of Fort Frances will be entering into a new agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources for shoreline property along the La Verendrye Parkway. Town CAO Mark McCaig noted yesterday the issue of the beach management with the MNR had been unresolved since the last agreement’s expiration in […]
Recommendations in the Downtown Core Committee report will affect more than just Scott Street and the surrounding area, and individuals and groups alike should come out to the public meeting slated for June 13. This was message Patti-Jo Reid, chair of the local Economic Development Advisory Committee and Downtown Core […]
The town no longer will initiate local improvement projects and stick residents with the bill after council opted Monday night to approved revisions to the policy. As a follow-up to a directive from council last summer, municipal planner Faye Flatt presented council with a revised local improvement policy. “There has […]
Whether the reconstruction of the Portage Avenue underpass will go ahead this year is up in the air as, for the second-straight year, the town didn’t get the dollars it was hoping for from the Canada-Ontario Rural Infrastructure Fund (COMRIF). Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said he found out […]
Town council voted in favour of adopting a revised fee schedule to go along with its new business licensing bylaw at its regular meeting last night. The annual fees, which will be effective as of May 1, 2006, are as follows (non-resident fees are in parentheses): •public halls—$56; •public halls […]
Jon Mansbridge, 17, practiced his acrobatic skateboard moves Monday afternoon at the Kiwanis skate park. Jon and his friends have been out skating almost every night enjoying the recent nice weather. — Alex Cruickshank photo
On Saturday around 3 p.m., Emo OPP officers investigated the theft of a motor vehicle from a residence in Watten Township. Shortly after 4 p.m., officers from the Dryden OPP detachment located the vehicle at the junction of Highway 502 and Highway 594. As a result of that investigation, a […]
On Wednesday, Dryden OPP received several traffic complaints involving a Pontiac Sunfire travelling westbound on Highway 17. Shortly thereafter, around 8:30 p.m., police responded to a single-vehicle roll-over in Dewan Township involving the above vehicle. Fire and ambulance services were on the scene to assist. The driver of the vehicle, […]
Jason Strom Jr participated in the “Cuts for Cancer” and got his head shaved by Stacey Kreger of the Hair and Body Care Shoppe on Saturday afternoon during Emo’s annual Spring Fever Days celebrations. One quarter of the money raised went to the Emo handi-van, while three quarters went to […]
Having passed a new business licensing bylaw at its April 10 meeting, town council now will vote to adopt a fee schedule to go along with them at its regular meeting tonight. Clerk Glenn Treftlin said Friday afternoon that the amended fee schedule reflects changes made in the licensing bylaw, […]
