Staff The four Muskie court teams were kept out of the winners’ circle Tuesday at the NorWOSSA playoffs in Dryden. Three of the four played in their respective finals but were denied gold by the host Eagles each time. The heavily-favoured senior and junior girls’ basketball teams both were upset […]
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By Andrew Dalton The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A day after Donald Trump’s election to the presidency, campaign divisions appeared to widen as many thousands of demonstrators ‚Äî some with signs with messages declaring “NOT MY PRESIDENT” ‚Äî flooded streets across the country to protest his surprise triumph. From […]
By Jon Gambrell The Associated Press DIRAZ, Bahrain — In the small town of Diraz, just a few miles from where Prince Charles met with Bahrain’s royals, there is graffiti demanding the death of the Gulf island’s monarch, armoured vehicles with chicken wire on their windows and a tense calm […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press Holidays equal platters and tins of festive-looking cookies. Cookies with colored icing, cookies with sprinkles, cookies with fillings, cookies with layers. An artistic cookie display is a thing of beauty, that I’ll not argue, but I’ll reach past the whole lot if I see […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press I remember the first party I ever hosted. I was 5 and my mom invited all of my kindergarten girlfriends and their moms for a holiday singing gathering. We knoshed on homemade cookies dunked in hot cocoa made from packets of powder dissolved in […]
By Elliot Spagat The Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Donald Trump is scheduled to go on trial this month in a class-action lawsuit against him and his now-defunct Trump University, potentially taking the witness stand weeks before his inauguration as president of the United States. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, […]
In today’s paper, we are telling the story of two men who left the district to join the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Navy. Both returned to Fort Frances, raised families, and seldom ever told the stories of their lives in the Second World War. Stan Ward […]
I heard the expression on the radio recently that we “sanitize” the lives of our children. It’s true that memories of our own childhood sometimes get roughed up a bit with literary licence when we compare our stats with “kids today.” As the distance from our childhood lengthens, the difficulties […]
