Staff Look out, OFSAA—the “Bujold Bomber” is headed back your way. Aaron Bujold was the lone representative of the Muskie badminton team at the NWOSSAA championships yesterday in Dryden. But the 10th-grader shrugged off any feelings of loneliness and got down to business in winning his second-straight silver medal in […]
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Staff An easier semi-final round likely has never been played. Both the league-leading Wright Physiotherapy Rockettes and second-place La Place Rendez-Vous Rage were handed forfeit victories last night to advance to the final of the Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer League. The Rockettes (8-2) were given the free pass after the […]
Staff Sunset Country Métis Council members will be among those voting for a new Métis Nation of Ontario executive on May 2. Voting will take place from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. at the Sunset Country Métis office (426 Victoria Ave.) An advance poll will be held there this Saturday (April 23) […]
From the OPP Shortly after 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Kenora OPP officers responded to a report of a deceased male being located along the shoreline of Powder Island on Lake of the Woods. Members of the Kenora OPP’s Marine and Trails Unit, and the Kenora Forensic Identification Unit, attended the […]
Staff Just call him Pierce Dushenk‘0.’ The Fort Frances Lakers’ goalie turned away all 35 shots he faced last night, and A.J. Rupert and Dylan Robertson each scored, in a 2-0 win over the host Dryden GM Ice Dogs in Game 4 of the SIJHL final. The best-of-seven showdown is […]
Duane Hicks Library Penny Shumaker got the seed library all ready to go for its “Earth Day” launch tomorrow. This will be the second year for the free community resource to be offered at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre.
Duane Hicks In the spirit of “Earth Day” tomorrow, the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre will launch its seed library, with a sunflower start kit giveaway to follow on Saturday. This marks the second year for the seed library, which is a free community resource open to library members […]
Staff Students in Lynne Avis’ Grade 7 class at Robert Moore School are hosting a movie night fundraiser tomorrow for a classmate and his family. Thomas Chapais was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in 2014. After having his leg amputated, he had returned to school and was adjusting well to school life. […]
By Elliot Spagat The Associated Press SAN DIEGO — U.S. authorities said Wednesday that they discovered a cross-border tunnel that ran a half-mile from a Tijuana house equipped with a large elevator to a lot in San Diego that was advertised as a wooden pallet business, resulting in seizures of […]
By Daniel Estrin The Associated Press JERUSALEM — The grandchildren of one of the earliest Jewish victims of the Nazis are laying claim to a jewel of Israel’s top museum: the world’s oldest illustrated Passover manuscript. The descendants of a German Jewish lawmaker say the famed Birds’ Head Haggadah, a […]
By Eric Tucker The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has signalled that it won’t try to block a lawsuit arising from the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques, leaving the door open for a court challenge over tactics that have since been discontinued and widely discredited. Lawyers call the government’s […]
By Sudhin Thanawala And Tom Krisher The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Time is up for Volkswagen to meet a federal judge’s deadline to detail how it will make nearly 600,000 diesel cars rigged to cheat on emissions tests comply with clean air laws. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer […]
