With lower temperatures and rain having cooled the fire situation in British Columbia, some 300 MNR firefighters and agency reps have returned home to Ontario, including more than 150 from the West Fire Region. “They’re all back, or in preparation to come back,” MNR fire information officer Deb McLean said […]
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An ad hoc committee being formed to review compensation for elected officials, as well as town boards and committees, also will have a mandate to explore whether Fort Frances town council really needs six members and a mayor. This detail came up during Monday night’s regular meeting as Clerk Glenn […]
The Fort Frances Curling Club is requesting the town rebate the club’s taxes for this year, saying the organization is struggling under its current financial burden. “We have had some relief from taxes in the past, but simply can’t see how we can continue to operate and pay taxes in […]
Fort Frances OPP would like to remind homeowners to secure their residences during the day. The OPP are actively investigating occurrences in which homes have been entered and property has been stolen. Police are looking into the possibility that the suspects will knock on the front door to ascertain if […]
The Trans-Canada Highway was closed for more than nine hours over the weekend due to a fatal accident that occurred Saturday evening near the Manitoba border. Around 6:45 p.m. on Royal Lake Road, about 45 km west of Kenora, a white 1990 Chevrolet Cavalier was westbound at an unknown rate […]
The Muskie football season is fast approaching, with an exhibition game slated for this Thursday (Sept. 2) at 4 p.m. against the visiting Sturgeon Creek Schooners. But there’s a small problem facing Bob Swing and the rest of his coaching staff—they need more players. “We don’t have a lot of […]
It was nine years ago that a young volunteer working at a World Cup mountain bike race at Mont Ste-Anne, Que. became swept up in the emotion of the riders. “I was looking at the girls and the feelings they seemed to have at the finish line,” Marie-Helene Premont remembered […]
A year or so ago, veteran kayaker Eirik Larsen agreed to take in a precocious kid from Canada and share with him some of the secrets of the powerful Norwegian paddling team. It wasn’t long before Larsen realized the person sleeping on his sofa was developing into a threat—something Adam […]
Duane Carlson of Sight & Sound has many sayings he uses during games, but one of his favourites is “Hit it hard and run fast—hit it harder and jog.” And though the strong winds at VanJura Stadium here last night didn’t allow them to jog off their usual slew of […]
Fort Frances tot Alicia Delbridge is showing more signs of improvement as she battles a rare, life-threatening heart ailment in a Calgary hospital, her father reported Thursday. Cory Delbridge, assistant manager at the Canada Safeway store here, wrote in an e-mail that the results of an echo-cardiogram taken Thursday showed […]
With the ninth-annual Fort Frances Times Great Chili Cook-off tentatively scheduled for Friday, Sept. 17, organizers are looking for a few good chefs. This year’s organizer, Gabe Glueheisen, said yesterday she’s in the process of contacting chili teams that expressed interest last year in participating again. “We’ve had confirmation from […]
Construction on the $12.5-million Phase IV project at La Verendrye Hospital here is well on schedule, Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. reported this week. Project manager Ed Cousineau has said the new addition to the south of the existing structure has been erected and the roof is expected to be […]
