Author Archives: Randy Thoms
New Policing Contract To Be Finalized
Fort Frances town council is expected to sign off on a new five-year contract with the Ontario Provincial Police. The new deal includes a provision for the OPP to hire two special constables who will ...
Oct 28, 2019
Cold Weather Testing Facility Put On Hold
Plans for a second cold-weather testing facility in Koochiching County have been put on hold. Craig Hopkins of Automotive Testing Solutions was proposing the facility near Littlefork. Speaking last we...
Oct 28, 2019 Cold Weather testing facility in International Falls/File photo
Queen's Park Back In Session
MPPs return to work today. Queen's Park resumes after a five-month break. Teacher contracts, retail alcohol sales and Ontario's financial picture are among issues likely to dominate the headlines for ...
Oct 28, 2019
Education, Monitoring Key Steps To Protecting Birds
The group responsible for annual bird counts in Minnesota hopes more volunteers will take part in surveys this December. A new report predicts the effects of climate change will make it hard for certa...
Oct 28, 2019 Audubon Minnesota wants more people to monitor bird species like the loon as they try to protect them from the possibility of extinction. (National Park Service)
Scams Still Lingering In District
Scams continue to find their way through the Rainy River district. OPP have issued yet another advisory to the public to be leery about telephone calls, e-mail and text messages from those claiming to...
Oct 28, 2019
Local Sports For Monday, October 28
Fort Frances Lakers fell 3-2 last night to the Dryden GM Ice Dogs in Dryden. Stone Stelzl and Michael Chapman scored for the Lakers Friday, the Lakers pulled out a 4-3 shoot out win over Red Lake. Tho...
Oct 28, 2019
Provincial Transfers Announced
Area municipalities now have an understanding of how much in provincial funding they'll have to work with next year. The provincial government has revealed the allocations in transfer payments to muni...
Oct 25, 2019
County Receives Emergency Training Money
More emergency response training is planned for Koochiching County. Its Emergency Management director has received a federal grant of over $89-thousand for future training focused around a rail emerge...
Oct 25, 2019 2015 derailment of CN train near Barwick - file photo
Budget Schedule Drafted
The town of Fort Frances is getting ready to tackle the 2020 municipal budget. A tentative schedule would have all managers having their budgets in place for a line-by-line review by early December. T...
Oct 25, 2019
Local Sports For Friday, October 25
A member of the International Falls Broncos cross country running team has earned a trip to the state championships. Ryan Ford finished 12th in the girls event at the Section 7A cross country meet in ...
Oct 25, 2019
