A longstanding provincial program is causing headaches in some area municipalities, and it’s back on the radar.
At a regular teleconference meeting of the Northern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) on May 6, the NOMA board added the issue of conservations lands and their effect on municipal tax base to their issue tracker.
It’s a familiar refrain by now, but another community event has taken to the internet in order to keep itself alive in the time of COVID-19.
A local athlete has been earned a prestigious award to help cap off her high school sports career.
Even in the time of COVID-19, the town is moving ahead with plans to give two areas in town a new life.
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt long after we’ve turned the page on 2020.
In her update at last week’s Town of Fort Frances council meeting, Councillor Wendy Brunetta shared that due to the restrictions in place around COVID-19 in the region, the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) has had to take stock of the remainder of its year.
The Town of Fort Frances will be adding three new monuments to one of its graveyards.
United Native Friendship Centre (UNFC) staff were on hand at their Circle of Life Building on Mowat Ave. on Tuesday morning for the first day of the UNFC's Breakfast Buddies for Kids program. The Breakfast Buddies program is a long-running program in local schools that provides breakfast three days a week, but has been modified due to school closures and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Mayor of Fort Frances and the office of Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Marcus Powlowski are warning the community not to jump to conclusions if they spot an out of province licence plate in town.
The town budget for 2020 is in the books.
At Monday night's town council meeting, Town of Fort Frances treasurer Dawn Galusha presented the finalized 2020 Budget, which sees a residential tax increase of 3.24 percent and a number of challenges -including COVID-19- that we might not see the full impact of until years down the road.
One local man is using his COVID-19 downtime to benefit others in the community.
