Local high school teachers will take a strike vote Wednesday after negotiations between their union, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation District 5B, and the Rainy River District School Board last week failed to reach an agreement. The teachers, without a contract since last fall, have been in negotiations with […]
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Once again the calendar has rolled around to a special time of year. But it’s not a religious holiday. Nor it’s not a commercial holiday created to force lovestruck young men to purchase a plethora of chocolates and flowers for the lass that has caught their eye. And it’s not […]
Fort Frances Fire Chief Steve Richardson recently joined Crown Attorney Robert “Buster” Young and OPP Cst. Paul Pirie as local recipients of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal. “I was very surprised,” Chief Richardson said Monday. “It was during a special luncheon on Jan. 13,” he noted. “Me and two other district […]
A Fort Frances youth has been charged in connection with a fatal accident Dec. 11 that claimed the life of 15-year-old Rachel Nelson. The youth, who cannot be named under the Young Offenders Act, was charged with one count of dangerous driving causing death and one count of dangerous driving […]
The Fort Frances Curling Club has decided for now to fall in line with the Northwestern Ontario Health Unit’s ongoing campaign to eliminate smoking in all enclosed public places. Club president Bill Gushulak said Friday the board of directors voted at a meeting Thursday night to ban smoking in the […]
With the heat of final exams turned off for another semester, both Muskie hockey teams are looking forward to burning up the ice in Kenora tonight. The boys’ squad (11-2) faces the top-ranked Broncos (13-1) in the first game of a crucial home-and-home series that ultimately should decide who takes […]
When all was said and done, Dave Allison got what he thought he deserved. SIJHL commissioner Harvey Fedell announced this morning the Borderland Thunder head coach’s suspension for verbal abuse of an official had been reduced from four games to one. Allison, who coached Team West in Wednesday night’s SIJHL […]
For an all-star shootout, it seemed like both teams left their big guns at home. Former Borderland Thunder goalie Kyle Rogers, now with the Thunder Bay Downtown Volkswagen Bulldogs, made 11 saves in the second period as Team East beat Team West 5-3 last night in the second-annual SIJHL all-star […]
With the deadline still more than a month away, nominations for the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce annual business awards have started to come in, co-ordinator Dawn Booth said this morning. “We’ve got a couple so far,” she noted. “We’re expecting much more to come in closer to the deadline […]
The first round in the ongoing dispute between the Northwestern Health Unit and area businesses opposed to the its ban on smoking in the workplace has gone to business. Eight businesses from Kenora/Rainy River were successful in obtaining a temporary stay against health inspectors who earlier had issued cease-and-desist orders […]
The efforts of the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition and its partners in education and law enforcement already have proven to be well worthwhile, RRVSC reps Grace Silander and Dorothy Poperechny told the annual meeting of the Rainy River District Municipal Association on Saturday in Stratton. The key to its […]
Those who can’t wait to revisit the ’50s and the spirit of rock ’n roll at the sixth-annual Riverside Foundation for Health Care dinner coming up Feb. 22 had better make reservations fast as tickets sales are brisk. “We’re halfway there,” Foundation director Teresa Hazel said yesterday, referring to the […]
