Crews are still working around the clock to contain and remove about 2,500 gallons of diesel fuel dumped in to Rainy Lake after Wednesday night’s Rocky Inlet train accident. Yesterday morning a boom line was set out a few metres from shore to contain the spill on the surface of […]
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Devlin has been a hubbub of activity yesterday and today as residents there literrally pick up the pieces after yesterday’s storm. As pieces of barns and houses dot fields north and south of the community residents, volunteers, contractors, hydro crews and CN Rail crews had converged on the area to […]
The Northwestern Health Unit has declared Pither’s Point unsafe for swimming for the first time this season after high bacterial counts were discovered during routine beach sampling. “At Pither’s Point it’s just the usual due to the heavy rains,” Fort Frances public health inspector Dave Coats explained this morning. “It […]
A train that went crashing off the tracks about 25 km east of Fort Frances Wednesday night may have spilled up to 2,500 gallons of diesel into Rainy Lake. “Last night, it happened around 9 p.m., we had a spill of diesel fuel and some of went into the lake,” […]
Held in conjunction for its second time with the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, “Quest for the Best” proved to be an hit yet again, seeing a slew of local talent entertain a sold-out crowd of 1,200-plus. “We’re very, very pleased with the success,” enthused organizer Dawn Booth. “I think, […]
Several Rainy River District communities are reeling after high winds and torrential rains swept across the district for the second time in as many days. Residents in most of the district’s communities are waking up to flooded areas and structural damage after last night’s storms which follow on the heels […]
Two minutes… That is all it took for some 40 tons of house boats to be flipped right over at Morson Marina Tuesday morning by a tornado. Lorne Gill, of Gills’ Morson Marina, said that about 6:35 a.m. Tuesday he was just getting ready to start his day when all […]
Picking up the pieces after the departure of Borderland Thunder head coach Mike Allison last month, current head coach Wayne Strachan is hoping this weekend’s tryout camp will be the beginnings of fielding a competitive on-ice squad for their upcoming inaugural season. The tryouts, which will feature close to 70 […]
The crowd was indeed electric as the fanfare of the final weigh-ins for the top seven boats in the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship hit its high last Saturday afternoon. This last round had close to everything: a tight race for first, the drama of which local team would hold […]
The good news for Borderland racing fans who were looking to see the dethroning of Steve Arpin from his recent dominance of the modified feature race came in the shape of veteran racers Kevin Sexton and Dwayne Pihulak, who made their first appearance this season at the Emo Speedway last […]
OPP have now released the name of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in the early morning hours yesterday. Nathan Edward Macdonald was found severely wounded at about 3 a.m. yesterday morning in the back yard of 1024 Webster Ave., part of an apartment complex on the corner […]
He’s only been here three days, but Toronto artist John Hood is already getting a taste of Fort Frances hospitality. “Janis from ‘Cripes, it’s a Castle’ was very nice. She kindly let me come in and drip on her floor,” Hood joked yesterday as he packed up after hours spent […]
