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Anne Pawlik – November 27, 1917 – April 5, 2012

Anne Pawlik – November 27, 1917 – April 5, 2012

Anne Pawlik nee Melicharek, age 94, passed away on Thursday, April 5, 2012 in Fort Frances, Ontario. Anne was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 27, 1917. Anne was predeceased by her husband Andrew E. Pawlik [...]

Snowmobile clubs open northern route

Snowmobile clubs open northern route

By Dryden Observer Staff Snowmobile clubs from Dryden Ear Falls and Red Lake area celebrated the long-awaited opening of a new recreational link between our communities, March 3. The Northwestern Ontario Snowmobile Trails Association (NWOSTA) hosted [...]

POLL: A mountain lion in northwestern Ontario?

POLL: A mountain lion in northwestern Ontario?

The latest in the ongoing search to confirm the existence of the eastern mountain lion in Northwestern Ontario comes from Ear Falls area resident David Beaudry who captured this image on a trail cam, Aug. 31. [...]

How ‘The Trout’ got its groove back

How ‘The Trout’ got its groove back

Without the bitterness, the sweet just ain’t as sweet. Those unacquainted with the recent history of the Trout Forest Music Festival may have missed the significance of those meaningful glances passing between the festival’s die hard [...]

Reliving a nightmare — researcher strives for definitive account of 1958 Ear Falls murders

Perhaps the most shocking headline to appear on the front page of the Dryden Observer in over 100 years of publication. Tom Young’s murderous rampage in Ear Falls coincided with the accidental death of Alex Notte [...]

Informed and Willing: Parts 1 and 2 of a series on the search for a site for Canada’s deep geological nuclear waste repository

Part Two – Inside the Deep Geological Repository concept Two area communities (Ignace and Ear Falls) are involved in the early stages of a site selection process for a deep geological repository to store Canada’s nuclear [...]

Observer Poll Results: Nuclear Waste in the Northwest

The results of the weekly Dryden Observer online poll, from March 16-21. [...]

Observer Poll #4 Nuclear waste disposal in the Northwest

This week’s Dryden Observer Community Poll is hoping to draw out some local opinions on the issue of burying nuclear waste in Northwestern Ontario, a topic that has occupied newspaper pages in the Northwest for over [...]

Nuclear waste concerns posed to area residents

A North Bay-based environmental group is voicing concerns with Ear Falls’ and Ignace’s recent interest in hosting a deep geological repository for the nation’s nuclear waste. In late October, Northwatch posted an open letter to residents [...]

GALLERY: 2010 Trout Forest Music Festival

GALLERY: 2010 Trout Forest Music Festival

For the second year in a row, patrons of the annual Trout Forest Music Festival in Ear Falls endured some very nasty weather, Aug. 13-15,  that all but shut down the main stage and crammed the [...]