It looks like the final cuts for the local Taggs ‘AA’ Bantam hockey team will go right down to the wire. The team’s coaching staff held a three-day tryout sessions almost two weeks ago but admitted the roster choices made then–and ones still going to made–have been extremely tough. So […]
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After still not selling all the tour de Fort “Encore” series vouchers at Saturday night’s Barra MacNeils concert here, they will be on sale again all this week. “People always ask us, ‘When are you selling tickets?’ The fact that we’re doing it all week long is really more convenient,” […]
After 124 days on the picket lines, staff at the Fort Frances and District Association for Community Living will be back at work this week. ACL staff, all members of CUPE Local #65, voted 98 percent on Friday in favour of accepting a new contract. The deal, hammered out after […]
The Muskie ‘A’ football team erased a six-point halftime deficit to beat the Grant Park Pirates 32-18 last Friday in Winnipeg. Two big runs helped the Muskies rally to victory. Down 18-14 in the third quarter, tailback Dan Hettinga scampered 60 yards to make it 21-14 for the black-and-gold. Then […]
Town council is expected to pass a bylaw at Monday night’s regular meeting that will allow Canada Safeway here to make an entrance on the east side of its parking lot beside the gas station. Safeway made the request to improve traffic flow in and out of the gas station. […]
Grade 10 students across the province will be writing the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test next month, but this year they’re required to pass it to graduate. That’s the message Fort Frances High School wants to stress to parents when it hosts a special information meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. […]
Dryden OPP have concluded their investigation into a fatal single-vehicle accident which occurred yesterday afternoon on Chaval Road in Sandford Township. John Brtko, 71, of Dryden, was the sole occupant of a Chevrolet pickup truck when his vehicle entered the south ditch and struck a tree, police said. A post-mortem […]
The Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association will hold a coaching clinic next Friday and Saturday at the Memorial Sports Centre for anyone interested in trying their hand at heading a house league team. The clinic, run roughly once every two years here, will deal with the more philosophical aspects of […]
Two men were arrested and charged Thursday in Pinewood after the Tri-Force Drug Unit searched property there and found drugs. Police seized 18 mature marijuana plants, half-a-pound of dried marijuana, seven long guns, a crossbow, and a switchblade, as well as a quantity of cash. The potential street value of […]
Youth violence will be the focus of the local Community Policing Committee’s conference slated tonight and tomorrow at La Place Rendez-Vous. “Just from the things that go on in our community, the issues around youth violence, we put together the School Violence Prevention Team, a sub-committee of the CPC, which […]
District residents can dispose of household hazardous waste tomorrow in Emo in what organizers hope will become an annual collection. The hazardous waste day–organized by the Rainy River First Nation’s Watershed Program and the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition–will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Emo municipal […]
Christmas will be coming here early this year as the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual trade show gets underway tomorrow at the Memorial Sports Centre. “There’s lot going on. We’re very, very excited,” Chamber co-ordinator Dawn Booth said this morning. “There’s going to be over 50 exhibitors. And we […]
