Peggy Revell The loop road around Pither’s Point Park was closed to traffic due to flooding from all the rain that’s hit the area over the past few days. Just under three inches fell here during Saturday night’s thunderstorm after Borderland was pelted by just over three inches in the […]
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Peggy Revell Smokey the Bear, Fort Frances Mayor Roy Avis, and local MP John Rafferty were right up near the front of the rope during Friday afternoon’s international tug-of-war that pitted Fort Frances against International Falls. But the Canadian side’s hopes to make it a 3-0 winning streak was dashed […]
Peggy Revell The bright yellow wings of a partially-submerged floatplane could be seen from the Sorting Gap Marina after it had crashed on take-off yesterday morning. No injuries were reported.
Peggy Revell This car had to be pulled from the Portage Avenue underpass yesterday morning after it became trapped there from all the rain that had collected after the torrential downpour during a thunderstorm in the early-morning hours of Canada Day. A north-end resident reported his rain gauge registered 3.02 […]
Bryce Forbes Abby Tolen walked around the “Relay for Life” in a Team Canada sumo suit, while fellow members of her team, Rebecca Tolen, Jeremiah McCart, Gavin Payne and daughter, Katherine, and Tara Tolley joined her for the opening lap on Friday evening at Fort Frances High School. This year’s […]
Peggy Revell Bailey Strom was presented with the Rainy River District School Board Leading Student Award by education director Heather Campbell last Thursday during the Fort High grad ceremony at the Memorial Sports Centre. The award is presented to a graduating student with the highest average in six Grade 12 […]
Bryce Forbes Cyndi Ward, right, with her kids, Reilly and Beth, enjoyed strawberry shortcake at the annual “Strawberry Social” hosted by La Verendrye General Hospital Auxiliary last Thursday. The popular event, which has been around since 1957, raised around $5,300 to help pay down the auxiliary’s pledge to the Riverside […]
Bryce Forbes Angela Petsnick, left, Keira Chown and Steph Botsford ran the ladder as part of the “Tighter ’N Lighter” Fitness Challenge offered by Courtney Koval through Integrity Fitness. Sixteen women competed in the three-times-a-week at 6 a.m., four-week challenge. The individual with the best post-fit test result will win […]
Bryce Forbes Onlookers watched from the Bear Pass Bridge as police were searching for the body of an unidentified male. The young man was diving with friends from the bridge on Highway #11 Sunday evening, when he entered the water and failed to re-surface. Police found the body late yesterday […]
Dan Falloon Local Little Leaguer Brendan Johnson winds up to deliver a pitch to home plate against Meyers Sports at Tony Rizzo Field in the Falls last night. The locals dropped a heart-breaking 20-19 decision in the first game of the double-knockout Major ‘A’ League playoffs. Fort Frances will try […]
Bryce Forbes Twelve-year-old cancer survivor Madisyn DeGagne started off The Canadian Cancer Society’s “Relay for Life” on Friday night by freeing a mixture of yellow and blue balloons. Beautiful weather helped the event smash last year’s total by raising over $54,000 with DeGagne being the top fundraiser at around $2,500. […]
Bryce Forbes Frank DeBenedet was busy frying fish at St. John’s Anglican Church fish and chips fundraiser Friday at the church. The group was raising money for the church.
