Sam Odrowski Shari Bujold, left, answered questions and helped Alexis Norris sign up her daughter, Amy, for the local badminton club during the “1-Stop Registration” event put on by KidSport in the arena auditorium on Thursday evening. Parents and children had the opportunity to learn about and register for more […]

Kiera Kowalski The Alaska Highway winds through Kluane National Park. To the left of the highway is what’s left of the Slims River. What once was a river flowing into Kluane Lake is now a barren stretch of dried mud and swirling dust due to climate change and global warming.

Staff Dixie Kivi of North Branch brought this unusual potato into the Times’ office on Monday. It seems to be a fusion of eight potatoes in one and it was the only tater produced by its plant.

Duane Hicks Harper Gunderson, left, and Logan McPherson got a closer look at their clay creations before putting them into the oven late Monday afternoon at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre. The workshop, where participants made shapes out of clay and then baked and shellacked them, marked the […]

Sam Odrowski Local lawyer and Borderland Pride co-chair Douglas Judson gave a presentation to the Rainy River District School Board at its regular monthly meeting last Tuesday evening about the legal impacts of the province’s decision to revert back to the 1998 health and sex-ed curriculum he says are contrary […]

Sam Odrowski Robert Moore students Alexis Latter, left, and Ashlee Homer held up the recognition of excellence award their school received for its “Makerspace” program during the Rainy River District School Board’s regular monthly meeting held here last Tuesday evening.

Sam Odrowski Michael Lewis, longtime trustee for Atikokan and surrounding area, accepted a farewell gift from Director of Education Heather Campbell, on behalf of the Rainy River District School Board, during its regular monthly meeting last Tuesday evening. The board was sad to see him go but happy to have […]

Submitted A portrait of me taken in front of Miles Canyon just outside of Whitehorse, Yukon’s capital city.

Sam Odrowski Lise Hansen, senior negotiator for the Ministry of Indigenous Affairs, held an open house at La Place Rendez Vous last Wednesday to discuss the Rainy Lake First Nation Flooding Claims. She spoke about the Ontario government’s proposal to amend the boundary of the Rainy Lake Island Conservation Reserve. […]

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Roy Avis pointed out photos of West End Motors from 1946 to when it expanded in 1996 and then renovated again in 2016. Avis was nominated earlier this year with a prestigious industry award–an Ambassadorship Laureate from the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association.

Jamie Mountain Fort Frances Lakers’ forward Brett Hahkala forced Minnesota Iron Rangers’ goalie Synjen Amende to make a difficult glove save as he set a screen in front during his squad’s 6-2 win in SIJHL pre-season action Sunday night at the Ice For Kids Arena here. Hahkala scored and added […]

Jamie Mountain Nick Lucas of the Fort Frances Lakers tucked home his squad’s final goal of the game on a breakaway during their 6-2 win over the Minnesota Iron Rangers in SIJHL pre-season action Sunday night at the Ice For Kids Arena here. Fort Frances swept the home-and-home series after […]