Heather Latter OPP Traffic S/Sgt. Ken Mantey offered up some winter driving tips to a class of Grade 11/12 students at Fort High during a presentation of the Highway Safety and Education Committee’s Safe Winter Driving Campaign there yesterday. Although the campaign was launched in Thunder Bay last month, with […]

Heather Latter Warehouse One staff, including Wanda Pollard, left, Marie Hughes, Tanya Cunningham, Marissa Walton, Kayleen Richert, and Shara Wickstrom (not pictured), displayed 283 pairs of jeans donated during the “Be a Denim Donor” campaign, which ran Jan. 27-Feb. 9. Those who brought in gently-used jeans received 20 percent off […]

Staff These were not the same old St. Thomas Aquinas Saints. The Kenora squad was outshot 68-12 but put a serious scare into the visiting Muskie girls’ hockey team last night before finally succumbing 5-3. A win is not always just a win, though, even if it did bump Fort […]

Duane Hicks There’s hope yet that property on Front Street could be developed into condominiums. The town has been contacted by a Thunder Bay-based company called Northern Superior Structural Solutions. “We do have somebody that’s making a proposal to the committee at the present time,” said Mayor Roy Avis. “Council’s […]

Heather Latter Dr. Brian Johnstone addressed a packed room at La Place Rendez-Vous on Friday during his retirement and 90th birthday celebration. Upon arriving in Fort Frances in 1966, Dr. Johnstone has spent almost 48 working as a physician in the community. Hundreds of people turned out to offer their […]

the OPP On Saturday around 8:45 p.m., Red Lake OPP officers were dispatched for the second time that evening to a noise complaint at a residence there. Upon arrival, officers were refused entry by the female inside the residence, who advised the officers that she had consumed an unknown quantity […]

Joey Payeur Emma Bodnarchuk of the Fort Frances Timbits, right, used a little stick trickery to try and rein in Isabella Reynard of the Lake of the Woods Blue Sharks in the Fort Frances Girls/Women’s Hockey Association Novice ‘B’ final yesterday. Reynard was tough to stop, though, scoring four goals […]

Staff In a win-or-go-home scenario, it was Mike Badiuk who had to pack to leave. The Devlin native, playing third for Thunder Bay’s Dylan Johnston, saw his dream of a provincial crown evaporate in a 7-6 extra-end loss to Sudbury’s Mike Jakubo in a tie-breaker Saturday in Timmins. Johnston lead […]

Staff Craig Armstrong is one title away from a Maritime getaway. The Stratton skip and his rink of third Ted Heyens, second Kevin Nielson, and lead Lawrence Armstrong went a perfect 4-0 to capture the Region 1 men’s crown in the Travelers (formerly The Dominion) Curling Club Championships in Atikokan […]

Staff A change of venue didn’t mean a change in fortune for the Muskie girls’ hockey team. Shilo Beck netted a hat trick as the black-and-gold upped their NorWOSSA record to a flawless 12-0 with an 11-0 rout of the host Sioux Lookout Warriors on Thursday night. Fort High, which […]

Joey Payeur Sioux Lookout Warriors’ goalie Gabriel Fiddler got just enough of David Pryde’s point-blank chance to keep the puck out of the net Friday. But it was all Fort High as the first-place Muskies won 9-0 on Friday and then 11-3 on Saturday to improve to 13-1. Fort High […]

Staff Town council will receive the annual police services’ activity report from OPP detachment commander Inspector S. Shouldice at its regular meeting tonight. Council also could decide on water and sewer rates for 2014. A new rate scenario, based on input provided at a budget meeting last Tuesday, will be […]