Although the town still needs final approval from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, council passed bylaws during Monday night’s regular meeting to adopt the Community Improvement Plan and designate project areas here. “We’ll let the project move ahead and lay the groundwork out, and then fill in the […]
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With the province asking all power companies in the province to declare whether or not they’re “for-profit” or “not-for-profit” as a condition of Bill 210, the Fort Frances Power Corp. will be sticking to the former upon the request of FFPC president and CEO Mark McCaig. More a formality than […]
Though it’s called high-speed Internet, the speed in which the service is coming to Fort Frances is anything but fast. For several years, the possibility of getting the service here has been teasing residents to the point of disbelief. Like the boy who cried “wolf,” many won’t believe it until […]
Whether you’ve been around town for a year or a century, an evening of “music, song, and dance” awaits you at the Townshend Theatre here this Thursday and Friday night. The Rainy River District Festival Association is staging a “Celebration of 100 years of the performing arts” as part of […]
Following a two percent levy increase from the Northwestern Health Unit last year, the Town of Fort Frances now is facing a five percent hike—from $35 per capita to $36.75—which it will be tough to take. “We never budgeted for it,” said Mayor Glenn Witherspoon. “It’s going to as hard […]
The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce decided Tuesday to hold a public forum on the issues related to the possibility of a “big box” retailer coming to town. Last month, the Chamber sent a letter written by Pharmasave owner Kim Metke to its members. In it, he raised some concerns […]
Though town council had passed a resolution at its Jan. 27 meeting to revise a policy to see a more balanced means of paying councillors with and without the town’s benefits package, those changes are now on hold. At that time, council—with the exception of Coun. Roy Avis—agreed to go […]
As first reported in Friday’s Daily Bulletin, high school teachers in Fort Frances, Rainy River, and Atikokan last Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in support of strike action to back their contract demands. Teachers represented by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation District 5B voted 98.9 percent in favour of taking strike […]
A philosophical change brought on by necessity couldn’t douse the red-hot run of the Fort Frances Firemen Flames. Without their top defenceman for most of the game, the Flames hunkered down and managed to hold off the Westfort Rangers (Thunder Bay) 1-0 to win the PeeWee ‘A’ crown at the […]
For Doug Jensen, it was more than just a week off school. The Grade 11 student at Fort Frances High School has just returned from Ottawa, where he participated in the “Encounters With Canada” program with 100 other students from across the country. He gave the experience an enthusiastic two […]
With the remaining unsold crocus bulbs not being shipped back to Thunder Bay until Friday, they still are available at the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau (old CN station) while supplies last. “We still have about 80 plants. We apparently got more than we thought we did,” Vanessa Hebert, executive co-ordinator […]
It’s tax time again, and property owners and businesses in Fort Frances should be seeing their bills arrive in the mail anytime now, Administration and Finance manager Darryl Allan said at Monday night’s council meeting. “Most residents should be receiving theirs today,” Allan noted Tuesday morning, adding the bills were […]
