Roughly 3,600 Hydro One customers in Rainy River District had their power interrupted Wednesday afternoon due to strong northwest winds and heavy rain caused by a passing cold front, Hydro One reported. “It was all caused by the storm that hit the northwest [Wednesday] afternoon. When you get winds of […]
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With construction on King’s Highway here set to begin Monday, Bay City Contractors Inc. of Thunder Bay last week assured the public that every effort is being made to minimize any inconvenience. Still, local business owners have mixed reactions. “It’s hard to say. It doesn’t help in the short term, […]
A new office of the Nature Conservancy of Canada officially opened here Monday, making history as the first time in the NCC’s existence that a second office has been opened in the same province. The official opening was held at the new office on Scott Street, attended by Rainy River […]
If you’ve ever wondered where exactly the Township of Alberton begins and ends, you may not have to guess much long. At its regular meeting last Wednesday, Alberton council decided to proceed with plans to place signs along Highway 11/71 at each end of the township to indicate to motorists […]
The family of Devin Allison is now left to try to pick up the pieces and do their best to find a way to carry on with their lives. “It’s an adjustment, we are trying to get back into the swing of things,” said Allison’s aunt, Maureen Hanson. “It’s never […]
Deru kugi wa utareru. Translated from Japanese, the above means “sticking out nail—be hammered.” And for Jordan Davis and Michael McCaig, it’s a perfect description for what they and their Manitoba Polar Ice teammates did in Sapporo, Japan. The ‘AAA’ Bantam hockey team from Winnipeg competed in the Sapporo International […]
What Vijay Singh was to the PGA Championship, Gerry Hercun was to the Kitchen Creek Classic. The Classic, which attracted 102 golfers on Saturday and Sunday, may not be of the same calibre as the PGA Championship, but don’t tell that to Hercun as his win was the first in […]
Yes, the 28th rendition of the summer Olympics is underway, but no, one of the world’s fastest-growing sports—wakeboarding—will not be seen in Athens. But it was seen here Saturday as former resident Tressa Main and her team of wakeboarders, the “Freeriders” along with “Hangtime,” organized the town’s first-ever wakeboarding clinic. […]
The condition of Alicia Delbridge of Fort Frances remains largely unchanged as the one-year-old struggles for her life in a Calgary hospital today. On Aug. 5, while visiting her grandparents with her mother, Christina, the tot suddenly was stricken with what turned out to be myocarditis—a rare inflammatory disease that […]
Girls and young women in the Fort Frances area are invited to participate in the first-ever Girl Power Camp at the UMAYC here next week. Organizers have been working on setting up the camp over the last several months and are excited to be offering the program to girls aged […]
Ed Katona is no stranger to fundraising. As the tax collector for the Town of Fort Frances, Katona has a great deal of experience in raising money, but next month, he’ll be doing it in a different way—and for a different cause. On Sept. 19, Katona will head to Duluth, […]
After receiving notice last month it will be getting $50,000 from the Moffat Family Fund this year, the local committee now is looking for some ideas as to how to divvy up the money. But those individuals and groups that have ideas as to how that money should be used […]
