Joey Payeur Shannon Darby of the Main Street Mayhem, left, and Katie Stearns of Cater 2 U Queens didn’t appear to be feeling any pressure despite playing in the final of the Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer League last night at Fort High Darby and the Mayhem captured the title with […]
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Staff Town council authorized the renewal of an annual lease agreement with Bearskin Airlines LP at the Fort Frances Airport during its regular meeting Monday night. The new rate increased by one percent ($10,208.76 per year), Council also: •authorized the suspension of calendar parking on the 400 block of Nelson […]
Duane Hicks Neil Whitefield, who has worked at the local mill for 38 years, checked out old photos yesterday at the Fort Frances Museum that’s part of new exhibit commemorating the past 100 years of logging and paper-making in Fort Frances. A wine-and-cheese reception was held to mark the official […]
I protested almost a year ago, on May 25, 2013. And I plan to protest again this year. I had made my placards, laminated them in case of rain, and stood with more than 500 others clad in raincoats, holding umbrellas, or wrapped in plastic under the threatening sky. I […]
Just when I decided I had nothing to write about this week, a chipmunk got into my basement. I stood in the doorway of the porch in my housecoat, with my coffee cup in hand, and scowled at the rain pitching down on my soon-to-be growing too fast lawn. I […]
Last week, Resolute Forest Products announced the permanent closure of its Fort Frances paper mill. It’s a bitter pill to swallow for workers, their families, and everyone in the community. First and foremost, my heart goes to the 700-plus workers and their families who have lost their livelihoods since 2012. […]
Although it certainly doesn’t happen every day, if you fish enough, chances are you’ll eventually catch a tagged fish. The tags—typically small yellow plastic pieces that are attached to the dorsal fin area of the fish—are used by natural resource agencies to measure the health and age structure of a […]
This year’s RBC Cup national junior ‘A’ hockey championship still is being contested out in Vernon, B.C. But that doesn’t mean it’s too much of a stretch to look ahead one year and envision the Fort Frances Lakers being part of that post-season party. The Lakers captured their first-ever SIJHL […]
Well, the weather continues to disappoint me and likely many others. We need to get on the land and get something planted! It’s been said that every day after May 15, you start to lose a bushel a day on your cereal grains (although there are things, like our soybeans […]
Joey Payeur For as much as Wayne Strachan has accomplished in his hockey coaching career, it would be logical to think picking a favourite one would be difficult. But mention this past season manning the bench for the Fort Frances Lakers, as they won their first SIJHL title, and the […]
Joey Payeur If the Muskie boys’ soccer team was a horse, it would be known as one mean mudder. The black-and-gold left their opponents floundering in the rain at the Struchan Gilson Memorial soccer fields Monday as they opened defence of their three-straight NorWOSSA crowns with a pair of 3-0 […]
Joey Payeur If ties are like kissing one’s sister, there was plenty of sibling love being shown Monday at the Struchan Gilson Memorial soccer field. Then the Muskie girls’ soccer team balled up its collective fist and laid a smack of a different kind on the lips of the Dryden […]
