In a chain-reaction, a number of businesses along Scott Street have re-located. Three local businesses moving this month are just the latest to shuffle in search of more space and a better location. Wilson’s office supplies has been the latest store to shift to a new location, moving from its […]
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A week before classes resume, the Fort Frances High School will be open tomorrow through Thursday for new and returning students to pick up their timetables and pay registration fees. All returning students entering grades 11, 12 and OAC are asked to register tomorrow, Aug. 21 between 8:30 a.m. and […]
Kenora OPP are investigating two boating accidents which occurred on Lake of the Woods Aug. 4 and 5. In the first incident a 33-year-old woman was thrown from a boat in Regina Bay after the vessel her husband was driving hit a wave at an angle. While in the water […]
Tensions ran high as last Saturday’s annual Kitchen Creek Ladies Open boiled down to playoff between the town’s premiere junior and the town’s saaviest of veterans. And the vet won. Fifty-eight year-old Carol Livington beat two-time defending champion Christin Thomson in two holes of sudden death golf to capture her […]
A working group met at 11 a.m. today to discuss the first results of tests on the effluent that flooded several north-end backyards last week. The group, which included representatives from the town, Abitibi-Consolidated Inc., Moncrief Construction, the Northwestern Health Unit, the Ministry of the Environment, insurers, adjusters, and residents, […]
Last night marked the opening of the Rainy River District Fastball League playoffs, with Sight and Sound (Fort Frances) falling 8-3 to the defending champion Emo Bulldogs. Bulldog veterans Shane Bliss and Don Copenace set the tone early, each belting home runs in the early innings to give Emo a […]
The annual Kitchen Creek Ladies Open tomorrow should be an interesting 18 holes as defending champ Christin Thomson faces a handful of contenders looking to snap her two-year reign. While Thomson, who fired a nine-over par 81 to win last year, has been looking to improve her game in out-of-town […]
The youngsters of Pikangikum First Nation say they will be joining forces once again to build two drop-in centres in their Northern Ontario community. About 150 young people from the reserve banded together and earlier this week completed a three-week, 600-km march from the reserve to the Manitoba legislature. Their […]
Some positive lab tests have come back indicating the water at Pither’s Point beach is now safe but local health officials will hold off on opening it to swimmers until more tests come back just to be certain. “We got back results from Friday and they were all right and […]
The board of directors of the inaugural Superior International Junior Hockey League and representatives from the seven teams nixed the idea of putting a two-fight rule into effect this season, citing costs and reputation as the major reasons. Instead, players automatically will be ejected from games after one fight. The […]
It will be at least another day before laboratory tests of the effluent leak that covered some residents’ lawns in the north end of town last week produce results. Although some soil test results were sent back to the Ministry of the Environment on Thursday, the bulk of them are […]
A number of north-end residents remain confused and frustrated as contradictory information flows in about what exactly was in the mill effluent that flooded their backyards last Thursday morning. Residents who own homes on the south side of Eighth Street between Walker and Cornwall Avenues met Tuesday night to compare […]
