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Fort Frances has been hit with a lot of rain.

Staff Writer memara@fortfrances.com All flags have been lowered at the Civic Centre in the Town of Fort Frances since Monday in respect and memory of the children whose bodies were found buried at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. The discovery was made on Thursday when Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said in a statement that with the help of ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth of the preliminary findings came to light. This was the confirmation of the remains of 215 children, who were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Staff Writer memara@fortfrances.com Effective today, Safeway Fort Frances will no longer be giving plastic bags when checking out customers. This is done to honour the store’s goal of stopping the use of plastic bags with the beginning of their new fiscal year on May 5. Krystle Whiteley, Safeway manager, said customers have been reminded of the new rules via an automated recording that plays on the store speaker as they are shopping. “We have signage throughout the entire store and our cashiers are communicating with our customers,” Whiteley said. “I think that’s the goal with ...

The town of Fort Frances is updating its snowmobile by-law. It includes a map outlining where snowmachines are...