A wet start to the month with more than 6-centimetres of rain falling in less than three hours on Canada Day. The town of Fort Frances later revealed it was forced to send more than 9-thousand cubic meters of untreated sewage into the Rainy River because of the rains.
Weather also impacts research crops at the Emo Agricultural Research Station and area farmers' hay seasons.
Some residents lined-up to watch the Canada Day parade in Fort Frances were also witness to a float plane crashing into Rainy River yesterday morning. Two U.S. men escaped unharmed.
OPP divers recovered the body 43-year-old Robert Mainville of Couchiching First Nation who fell into the lake on Canada Day.
The Rainy River District School Board says it won't be offering any before or after school care for students attending full-day junior kindergarten at Atikokan's North Star School this fall because of a lack of interest from parents.
The Fort Frances Lions Club helped out an 11-year-old area boy hear many sounds for the first time. Carter Kinnear sports new hearing aids, paid for in part by the Lions.
Jon Evans and Gus McFaddin won Lake Despair Lodge's Castin' for Cash bass fishing tournament.
Abitibi-Consolidated has been fined $125-thousand for a violation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act relating to an August 2008 incident at the Fort Frances mill in which three people, including a student worker, were injured by an arc flash while they were working on a paper machine.
Emo's Felicia Schmutz competed at the Miss Teen Canada-World pageant in Toronto.
Trustees with the Rainy River District School Board yesterday awarded a contract worth $5.9 million to Thunder Bay-based Finnway General Contractor to build a new school in Mine Centre.
Cloverleaf Grocery proposed to set up a recycling collection depot and allowing non-profit groups to reap the benefits of items collected.
Unionized employees with the town of Fort Frances accepted a new two-year deal with a 3.5 per cent wage increase.
Provincial Police in Fort Frances charged 43-year-old Garry Donald Mathewson with a series of sex offence, some dating back almost twenty years ago.
Dorian Lindholm of Fort Frances with long-time fishing partner Bill Wilcox of Texas captured the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship.
A local manufacturing company Abzac is is sold to South Carolina-based Sonoco with most of the employees expected to lose their jobs by the end of October.
