With many OPP officers retiring in the next three to five years, recruiting officer Sgt. Darryl Wilson is hoping to generate some interest here when he holds two information sessions Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. “Almost every detachment in the region has a vacancy or two ongoing,” he said Monday […]
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According to a local lawyer, purchasing the international bridge here is the best way to prevent increasing tolls and other problems. “I hear through the grapevine that the new Customs facility may be bogged down for a period of time in federal bureaucracy,” Lawrence G. Phillips wrote in a letter […]
During an in-camera session of the committee of the whole of council yesterday, councillors received the Township of Miscampbell’s acceptance of their land annexation proposal and agreed to proceed with the boundary change. “Basically the same terms were offered. They accepted four years of equal taxation and they’d pay whatever […]
Water levels in Rainy Lake and the Kabetogama-Namakan reservoirs continue to rise and are now approaching emergency levels, Abitibi-Consolidated and Boise Cascade warned Monday morning in a joint news release. “We continue to see rising water levels so we’re issuing kind of a warning to lake areas that we may […]
Rainy River OPP are investigating a fatal marine accident that claimed the life of a Fort Frances man on Lake of the Woods near Morson on Friday. Larry Rose, 54, was found near his boat in the water that evening after he was reported long overdue coming off the lake, […]
The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is looking to fill a vacancy on its board of directors. Chamber co-ordinator Dawn Booth said Monday morning that the only criterion is for the person to be an employee of a Chamber member business. “They don’t have to be an owner or manager, […]
Only the Ministry of the Environment and Tri-Mac remain on hand to assess and clean up the scene of Wednesday afternoon’s fatal tanker-truck accident at Crowrock. While one source told the Times yesterday that the tanker had not leaked its cargo of tall oil, the OPP confirmed that an amount […]
More than 60 workers from the Fort Frances & District Association of Community Living, CUPE #65, went on strike Friday morning. The Community Activity Centre, access centre, and administration offices were being picketed today as the employees walked off the job to back demands for better wages and a pension […]
The Borderland Thunder will hold its first information meeting on Tuesday (May 15) at 7 p.m. at the Memorial Sports Centre for any interested players aged 16-20 and their parents. Mike Allison, head coach of the local entry into the inaugural Superior International Junior Hockey League, said the session will […]
Highway 502 to Dryden will be partially closed to traffic for the next two days after a fatal tanker-truck crash yesterday afternoon at the ‘S’ curve at Crowrock. Police said the southbound vehicle was travelling on the bridge around 2:15 p.m. when it failed to complete a sharp turn and […]
Rainy River First Nation is concerned a wastewater leak at the Abitibi-Consolidated mill here Monday could affect this year’s sturgeon spawn in the river. It said the sturgeon have moved off the spawning grounds at Manitou Rapids, and that the natural spawning process has ceased five days into the process […]
After meeting with Bell Canada reps here last week, local Internet Service Providers and Mayor Glenn Witherspoon agree–it’s time to look for alternative sources of high-speed Internet. “Hopefully, Northwest Mobility will flip on their microwave towers this week and we’ll need somebody like the Fort Frances Power Corp. to act […]
