Sarah Pruys Half the usual number of students were able to put together a two-and-a-half hour musical in half the usual amount of time this spring at Fort Frances High School. The 22 students performing in “Little Women” only had eight weeks to rehearse, but that didn’t stop the musical […]
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the OPP The Fort Frances OPP is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing teen. Madisyn DeGagne left her residence at 8 p.m. yesterday. She advised family members she was going for a walk with a friend and did not return. The last communication family members had was […]
Staff The Muskie boys’ soccer team are a win away from their third-straight NorWOSSA crown after clinching the top seed in the playoffs in their regular-season finale yesterday in Kenora. With a 3-2 win over the host Broncos in the final game of the day, the black-and-gold wrapped up the […]
Staff Hydro One customers in Halkirk, Watten, and Fairnington Townships, as well as Red Gut First Nation, can expect a planned power interruption tomorrow (May 24). The outage will start at 10:30 a.m., with power being restored by noon. Hydro One said the interruption, which will affect 527 customers, is […]
Sarah Pruys Tara Grant, left, Chelsea Mosley, Kaitlyn Chiasson, Sarah Glover, Adrian Gurski, Thomas LePine, Jenna Wilson, Jillian Gustafson, and Meghan Metke, who will be graduating from Fort High next month, “worked” at Boston Pizza yesterday evening to fundraise for the annual “chem-free” party following graduation. They shadowed employees from […]
Duane Hicks With the Emo Walleye Classic set to go tomorrow, the Rainy River is at a 10-year high for this time of year, having come up six feet in the last week. The water level on Rainy Lake, meanwhile, rose by a foot over the past seven days—thanks to […]
Sarah Pruys Gillons’ employees Tyler Cousineau and Sue Hanson flanked Cathy Wrolstad, who was retiring yesterday after 24 years with the company as an insurance broker. She wanted to have a good-bye barbecue that doubled as a “Relay For Life” fundraiser. With Gillons’ matching the $742 raised at the lunch, […]
Born to Kendra Brusven and Nathan Shoemaker, of Emo, Ontario, a girl, Jeycee Nicole Dawn, weighing 6 lbs. 4 oz. on May 6th, 2013 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ont.
With the way the sports calendar is lined up, the final weekend of May proves to be one of the most eventful and exciting over the course of the entire year. Locally, the Emo Walleye Classic will be held this Friday and Saturday in what is the official kick-off for […]
“SMH.” For those of you who have not yet been sucked into the vortex of cellphone texting and Internet acronyms, the three consonants stand for “Shake My Head.” The letters also represent an Australian newspaper known as the Sunday Morning Herald, and likely also are a short form for other […]
