CN still needs a final blessing from the province on its certificate of approval to bring the diesel fuel cleanup project up to full speed, council was told Monday night. The town was informed through a progress report, dated Nov. 15, by CN environmental engineer Harri Liivamagi. CN dug three […]
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Mayor Glenn Witherspoon said the town was “off to the races” after council agreed to sign the cellular phone service operating agreement between itself, Atikokan, and Thunder Bay. Doug McCaig, chair of the Fort Frances PUC and a member of Northwest Mobility, was joined by Geoff Gillon of the Rainy […]
The first ManOMin watershed conference is slated April 28-30, 2000, with hopes of it becoming a regular event in the future. Jennifer Mercer, co-ordinator for the Rainy River First Nations Watershed Program, said the name of the conference has a double meaning. First of all, ManOMin is an abbreviation of […]
Twenty-seven area farmers are well on their way to Regina, Sask. after their bus left this morning from Fort Frances for the annual “Agribition” fair. Put together by the Rainy River Future Development Corp., the trip was designed to give farmers here a chance to take in one of the […]
The Border Waters Coalition admitted the province’s decision to drop its law requiring non-resident anglers to stay overnight in Ontario in order to keep walleye and sauger was a “finger in the dike”–and one forced upon them after mistakes by Canadian lawyers in 1995. But it was a decision that […]
Hillary Morgan led a strong contingent of local trampolinists at a meet here Sunday, recording the top score of 54.3 to claim one of four spots on the regional team for the Ontario Winter Games in Sault Ste. Marie in March. Joining her on the Northwest team are Kristina O’Brien […]
Taking to the field as a special teams player takes a lot of heart and courage, not to mention physical ability. It also takes a whole different mentality. With players running down the field at full speed, hitting absolutely anything and everything that comes their way, it’s not only a […]
Playing what head coach Adrian Chapman called “their best volleyball of the season,” the Muskies spiked their way to a trip to the NWOSSAA playoffs in Thunder Bay this weekend after a dramatic comeback over Kenora in the NorWOSSA final last Friday in Dryden. Chapman said his team hit with […]
The old adage, “It’s not how you start but how you finish,” is one that is haunting the Muskie girls’ basketball program this week. That’s because both squads lost their respective NorWOSSA finals last Friday in Dryden after dominating league play during the regular season, each finishing atop the standings […]
By now, most of you know about the walkout that occurred at the high school last Friday. The walkout was planned by three students who had some legitimate concerns about things which were happening within the school. Those three, in turn, were backed by a number of other students who […]
Before coming to Fort Frances last Friday, all Carol Pirie of North Carolina knew about her great-grandfather, Edward Wellington Backus, was that she had “missed out.” “My sister had told me he was a lumber baron,” Pirie said, adding her sibling then would go on and tell her about the […]
It may have been finished just the day before, and it still needed some touch-ups afterwards, but that didn’t take anything away from the eagerly-anticipated unveiling of the town’s first heritage mural Friday morning. Residents from both sides of the border crowded on Mowat Avenue as they waited for the […]
