Fort Frances News

A temporary cure for the tourism industry's border blues was announced Friday, making it easier for Americans, who have minor criminal histories, to cross.

Carrying through with part of the strategic plan mayor and town council developed last year, the Sister Kennedy Centre board of management is seeking input on how to make the centre the focal point of all services for seniors.

A deal to share resources in adult education was signed Tuesday in Dryden between the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board and Seven Generations Education Institute.

Gilbert Gillies wrote these words to his fiancA©e, Ruby, back on Nov. 17, 1941: "I love you more and more and miss you more as the days go by and my love and ours is going to last throughout the years." And lasted it has-for more than 70 years.

This year's "Relay for Life" here will be held June 15 at Fort Frances High School, not June 29 as originally planned.

On Jan. 20, one female was charged with trafficking a Schedule I drug when she tried to sell three containers of methadone to a plainclothes police officer.

Given the shortage of doctors across the district, including in Rainy River where the lone full-time physician, Dr.

When the federal government was about to send two young men to the United States to face trial for murder and possible death sentences if convicted, the Supreme Court of Canada said no, calling the penalty at odds with Canadian notions of justice.

A Dubreuilville man has been fined a total of $4,000 for careless hunting at night, the Ministry of Natural Resources reports.

Getting the freezers stocked with snack foods in anticipation of Sunday's Super Bowl parties, local owner Chris McKinnon donned a red nose today for M&M Meat Shops' 21st-annual Red Nose Day.

On Jan. 22 around 6 a.m., Rainy River District OPP were alerted to a break-and-enter in progress at a garage on the 1000 block of Armit Avenue in Fort Frances.

The Rainy River Community College Voyageurs had a successful trip to Brookings, S.D. on the weekend, collecting a pair of wins over the host South Dakota State Jackrabbits in ACHA Division 2 play.

Municipal leaders banded together Saturday to oppose a plan which would result in the relocation of the resident judge for Rainy River District to a base in Kenora or Dryden.

Cindy Hamilton has found a unique way to follow in her family's footsteps! Hamilton, who is the daughter of the late Emil and Iona Godin, grew up in Rainy River, Ont.

The Broncos finished with a 2-2 record. They posted a 43-31 win over Dryden and a 31-24 win over St.

The Lake of the Woods Squirts hockey team came in second over the weekend at a tourney in Fort Frances.

A 12-year-old girl was injured Friday afternoon when she ran across icy U.S. 53 in St.

Bruce and Linda Stewart, of the Fort Frances area, spend their winters down south, and were known to be at the Snow and Sun RV Park in Weslaco, Texas, in December.

Fewer mill employees will be going back to work once paper production resumes at the Resolute Forest Products mill here early next month.

Fort Frances will receive nearly $3.24 million from the province in 2012 under the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund .