A 26-year-old Burriss man, charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a woman there Sunday night, is slated to make his next court appearance Monday . Michael Tetu has been in custody since being arrested at the scene. A date for a show-cause hearing may be set at […]
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Not all kids are couch potatoes, according to a survey conducted by the Fort Frances Times last Friday. Roughly 80 percent of grade five-eight students at Robert Moore and St. Francis schools who returned surveys said they participate in at least some form of physical activity for some time after […]
Susie Grynol of Devlin is getting a firsthand look at the workings of the federal government as she walks the halls of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa as a page. But she also had the opportunity to witness the outpouring of emotion Canadians openly expressed when news of Pierre Elliot […]
At the tender age of 10, Karli McKinnon of Fort Frances has become a published writer, with her first poem appearing in the newly-released “Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul.” “I read an article about the book and I wrote them a letter,” McKinnon said. “I didn’t think I was […]
Although only 22, local singer Alyson Booth has a number of years of experience under her belt as far as performing goes. And while she’s placed in several “Quest for the Best” competitions here, including once in first place, she and Emo pianist Michelle Sommerfield hit the jackpot last weekend […]
Exceeding its preliminary total of $1,500, a more recent tally shows he Fort High senior band raised more than $3,000 towards its trip to Germany and Austria next March Break at an Oktoberfest dinner and silent auction last Thursday evening at the Legion here. “It’s been a month in the […]
It was almost Hallowe’en so it seemed like a good time to look at a haunted school. A tour of abandoned Fort Frances High School should prove scary enough by now, all right. You really can’t expect to find vampires over there, even if bats and rats should be plentiful. […]
While ’flu shots have been available to those in high-risk groups and health care workers since the middle of October, the Northwestern Health Unit here has been getting ready to administer the vaccine to the public starting Nov. 14. “We’re really looking at this as being much, much bigger than […]
While the Pupil Accommodation Committee won’t meet until Nov. 21 to look at three recommendations for school closures/amalgamations, any decisions aren’t expected to be made for quite some time. “It would take a minimum of two years, and possibly three or four years, before we see any real changes,” said […]
The funding for the new hemodialysis unit at La Verendrye hospital here has been cemented after the Aboriginal Dialysis Initiative donated $450,000 to the project at a presentation yesterday morning at the Red Dog Inn. With $350,000 given to the “Care Close to Home” campaign, and another $100,000 to Riverside […]
As a self-confessed “junk-food addict,” participating in the annual Diabetes Celebrity Challenge is something I never could have imagined myself doing. That is, until George Bartlett, carrying a fuzzy teddy bear and sporting a Diabetes Awareness shirt, walked into the Times office last month and asked if I would like […]
Both Muskie girls’ basketball teams beat the Atikokan Voyageurs here last Thursday afternoon. The senior team had to battle a stubborn Atikokan squad in the early going before pulling away with a 44-22 victory. “The senior team had a slow, tough start but they caught on,” noted Mike Busch, who […]
