According to principal Lucinda Meyers, everything went without a hitch at Donald Young School’s clean-up day. Special thanks go out to Patty and Paige McNally, Frances, Casey, and Ian Grant, Elaine and Jimmy Mack, John Laplante, Stephen and Sarah Hillier, Natasha and Chad VanWallenghem, Harold McQuaker, Sherri and Kyle Hay, […]
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The Nature Conservancies of Canada and Minnesota have teamed up with the Rainy Lake Conservancy to make sure nobody tries to pave our paradise and put up a parking lot. The first Nature Conservancy of Canada Northwestern Ontario field office is set to open on Scott Street here sometime in […]
Voyageur Panel, the oriented strandboard (OSB) manufacturing plant in Barwick, is now known as Ainsworth Barwick. As well, there has been a change of management at the mill. “We’ll have a new manager coming in shortly and we have an interim manager, whose name is Mark Cunningham,” Catherine Ainsworth, COO […]
Thanks to the recent rains, and cooler than normal temperatures, the fire hazard currently is “low” in every district of the West Fire Region, the Ministry of Natural Resources reported yesterday. “It isn’t so much we’ve received copious amounts of rain. There’s just been a cycle of weather that’s really […]
While the federal election campaign has heated up between the three main party leaders, the local candidates are managing to remain calm and civil—even in debate. Last Wednesday’s all-candidates’ debate at the Civic Centre here drew a crowd of only about 20 people, most of them involved with the campaign […]
They came from far and wide, from past and present—students, teachers, principals, and parents. Like salmon drawn inexorably to ancestral rivers to spawn, more than 200 people came back one last time to a place that for many is full of special memories. Last Thursday, Alberton Central School in Crozier […]
For the second time in less than a week, Canada apparently has won another round in the longstanding softwood lumber trade dispute with the United States. A North American Free Trade Agreement panel ruled yesterday that the U.S. Commerce Department must review its subsidy calculations on Canadian lumber imports, which […]
The Township of Atikokan will be upgrading its municipal water treatment plant and to ensure the safety of the drinking water while that work is being done, a boil-water advisory was put into effect there yesterday. A working group, including representatives from the Township of Atikokan, Ministry of the Environment, […]
The union representing 4,500 employees of forestry products company Abitibi-Consolidated says they have given their contract bargaining committee the mandate to call a strike if necessary. The members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada are employed at 13 paper mills in Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland. “We expected […]
After just one week of “bag tags” on garbage, it looks like the town already may be seeing increased recycling among residents. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said this morning that he’s compared the weights of total loads from “blue box” pickups last Monday and Tuesday with the pickup […]
International Falls city council has approved placing three councillors on a committee to work with city and county arts and recreation organizations to locate sources of funding. Couns. Gail Rognerud, Terry Carrew, and Shawn Mason were appointed to the committee at last week’s city council meeting. City officials said the […]
Both St. Ignatius soccer teams took home gold medals from the all-Ontario championships Saturday. The fourth-seeded Lady Falcons, whose silver medal at last year’s OFSAA allowed the Muskies to attend the all-Ontarios this year, edged St. Thomas 2-1 in the final game in Sudbury. Meanwhile, the boys’ team, who were […]
