A group of alarmed north-end residents attended last night’s town council meeting to demand more information about the mill effluent that flooded their backyards last week. “It is very scary. Any information we have we’ve obtained on our own,” said Walker Avenue resident Sue Fletcher. A number of residents on […]
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The Town of Fort Frances reached a $24,250 out-of-court settlement with Borderland Hockey School owner Terry Mihichuk last month, which was made official at last night’s council meeting. The notice of discontinuance actually was signed and made official on July 23, said CAO Bill Naturkach. Mihichuk had filed suit in […]
The Bear is taking on the big guys. Bearskin Airlines, which began 38 years ago as one float plane serving remote Northern Ontario native communities, plans to launch a commuter service Sept. 10 between Toronto and Ottawa. It hopes to attract business travellers, especially the high-tech crowd, with seven round-trip […]
Aaron Loken made it three in a row at the Kitchen Creek Classic men’s golf tournament yesterday, edging out local golfer Greg Ward by one stroke. The International Falls resident fired rounds of 72-72 to finish the two-day tourney at even par 144. Ward opened with a 71 on Saturday […]
After collecting storm damage reports over the last week, town council will decide tonight whether to go ahead and apply for disaster relief funding from the province. The town had been encouraging municipal departments, organizations, and residents to bring their damage reports to the Civic Centre in order to assess […]
The Northwestern Health Unit posted Pither’s Point beach as “unsafe for swimming” early Friday afternoon due to high bacterial counts found during routine sampling. The beach will remain closed until satisfactory test results are obtained from continued sampling, the health unit said. The latest closure came just one day after […]
Specialists from the Ministry of the Environment, Abitibi-Consolidated, the Northwestern Health Unit, and the Town of Fort Frances were scheduled Friday morning to inspect the scene of yesterday’s effluent leak this morning. The effluent leaked out when an underground pipe carrying it from the mill to the lagoon north of […]
Kitchen Creek will be centre stage this weekend as 120 of the region’s top golfers compete in the annual “Classic” tournament, which goes Saturday and Sunday beginning at 8 a.m. each day. Two-time defending champion Aaron Loken of International Falls will make the short trip north to defend his crown. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
