The Fort Frances Aquanauts swim team has hired a new head coach after being without one for more than two months. Roman Ramirez, who had coached the Thompson Northern Torpedoes swim team in Manitoba for the last two years, will arrive here next week to begin preparations for the new […]
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The Northwestern Health Unit has re-opened Pither’s Point beach after receiving water test results back Thursday morning. The results indicated the water no longer contains the high level of harmful bacteria which resulted in the beach being declared “unsafe for swimming” last Thursday. Weekly beach sampling will continue there throughout […]
Worried north-end residents were standing in their backyards late Thursday morning watching pungent brown water creep towards their houses while a fleet of contractors, Public Works staff, and Abitibi-Consolidated employees rushed to block the flow from two broken effluent pipes running in and out of the mill. The water was […]
Canadian National Railway crews and the Ministry of the Environment are still cleaning at the scene where about 2,500 gallons of diesel spilled onto the banks of Rainy Lake after a train derailed just west of Windy Point last Wednesday. “They’d made very good progress on the water. Essentially [Tuesday], […]
Ever hear of Caveman Broda? What about Madman Martin? Assisted suicide perhaps? These are the names and faces of the Canadian Wrestling Federation. This sport/show is entering a new level of popularity–and the Emo Arena this Friday. Above all, it’s going to the extreme. For the first time ever in […]
The Human Resource Centre of Canada for Students here will close its doors for the summer this Friday (Aug. 10). That leaves only two days for students still hoping to make some money before school starts–and even those looking for something more permanent–to check out the jobs listed on the […]
With high winds continuing through last Tuesday evening, damage in the Village of Emo was contained to trees uprooted. A tree next to the property of E. Hakkawainew was flattened but could not be removed on account of it being tangled up with a hydro pole. A Hydro crew was […]
After a weekend of sunshine and hot weather, most roads that had been flooded or washed out by the downpour that hit Northwestern Ontario last Tuesday have now re-opened. Near Morson, where residents and vacationers were cut off by a flooded road for five days, one lane of Highway 621 […]
Ask local sculptor Bob Morris how long it took him to carve any one of his pieces and he will answer “All my life.” Question the artist on where he was born and his reply is similarly ambiguous–so much so that you have to repeat the question to the curator […]
It was an emotional effort put forth by four local Special Olympians at the provincial games last weekend in Sault Ste. Marie. And it was one that earned them successful results. Ray Bedard, Dave Ducasse, Lisa Gushulak, and Arlan Scott collected a total of 11 track and field medals at […]
Thunder Bay singer/songwriter Rodney Brown will be in town Sunday night to play a concert at La Place Rendez-Vous with local musician Richard McKinnon. From all accounts, Brown is something of a legend in these parts–an artist who has brought a bit of Northwestern Ontario to the rest of the […]
According to Ministry of Finance projections, Rainy River District’s population only will grow three percent by 2028 compared to a population growth of 33.4 percent across Ontario. The projections–calculated by comparing the results of the 1996 and 2001 census years–show growth of 4.6 percent, or 11,762 people, across Northwestern Ontario […]
