Adding a little more prestige to the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, one member of the winning team now will automatically be able to compete in the country’s most-touted tournament–the Chevy Mercury Bass Classic in late August. The Bass Classic is an annual tournament where many of the country’s best […]
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Susan Lundgren, political spokesperson and activist with the Northwestern Ontario Animal Habitat (NOAH), is hoping to make what she feels are necessary changes to the current laws surrounding animal rights. The Thunder Bay native already has passed gotten a number of bylaws passed in her home town–and now she has […]
Several members of the Fort Frances Aquanauts competed in the Manitoba/Saskatchewan short-course championships last weekend and none of them have any reason to be hanging their heads. “It was a great meet with excellent results,” enthused head coach Debbie Murray, adding the swimmers were just coming off the regional championship […]
It’s now Miscampbell’s turn to make a move which could make or break a proposal from Fort Frances to annex parcels of land from there and Alberton. Alberton council threw a roadblock in Fort Frances’ “housekeeping,” efforts last Thursday by turning down a proposal to annex the parcel of land […]
In an effort to reduce the strain many out-of-town patients go through to make it to their chiropractic appointments here in Fort Frances, Dr. Jeremy McGuire and Dr. Shayla Kennedy have decided to open a clinic in Rainy River to bring their services closer to those patients. “The clinic is […]
Members of the Fort High senior band have their bags packed and instruments shined as they get ready to embark on a 13-day trip to Germany and Austria tomorrow at 4 a.m. “There will be 107 students going on the trip,” FFHS music teacher and band director John Dutton said […]
Although he intends to say no to an offer from Fort Frances, Alberton Reeve John Milling and the rest of the township council are inviting residents to have their say. Reeve Milling said he was considering a proposal from the town which included doing away with a clause referring to […]
Although there weren’t enough on hand for a quorum, those town councillors who attend a meeting here last Friday got the facts and figures on the potential impact of Bill 140 on the municipal budget. Tomorrow they’ll decide what to do about it. Councillors knew from the get-go that the […]
While there has been very little hold-up at the Rainy River border crossing, the number of people crossing there is up by more than 30 percent over 1997. Last year, some 100,578 Americans crossed into Canada at Rainy River’s port of entry. In 1997, only 75,535 crossed. The numbers have […]
The new peroxide bleaching plant being built at the Abitibi-Consolidated mill here is entering the final phase of construction well ahead of schedule. “Things are getting along pretty quick. Construction is getting close to completion,” project engineer Bernie Martens said. “We should be starting our tests next week and go […]
There will be some competition for the annual Chamber of Commerce business awards after a late flood of nominations filled out the categories just before last Friday’s deadline. “I’m just filing them now. There’s about 30-40 so that’s not too bad,” Chamber co-ordinator Dawn Booth said Monday. “They were coming […]
Both the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team and senior girls’ volleyball squad beat Hillcrest (Thunder Bay) in the NWOSSAA finals there over the weekend to earn berths at the all-Ontarios later this week. The girls got the weekend off to a rocky start after losing the opening best-of-five match to […]
