Staff Having been the class of the three team NorWOSSA league in the regular season, the Muskie junior girls basketball team solidified their status as the team to beat in the 2011 season as they captured the league championship yesterday in Dryden. With a 7-1 regular season mark assuring them […]
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Duane Hicks Nasia Kavanaugh, left, and her sister, Wynonna, admired Wayne Yerxa’s painting, “Three Sisters,” at the opening of the new exhibit, “This Place Where We Live,” yesterday evening at the Fort Frances Museum. The exhibit, which features paintings by Yerxa and fellow local artist Connie Cuthbertson, features many scenes […]
Lucas Punkari For the second time in as many meetings, the defending SIJHL champion Wisconsin Wilderness got the upper hand on the Fort Frances Lakers. Their latest victory was a 3-1 triumph Tuesday night at the Ice For Kids Arena here. The Lakers, who fell 5-1 to the Wilderness on […]
Lucas Punkari Come next fall, local swimmer Donovan Taylor will be swimming for the University of Indiana swim team. The 17-year-old officially signed his letter of intent to join the Hoosiers last night at La Place Rendez-Vous, where he was joined by family, friends, and his fellow teammates from the […]
Peggy Revell Alyssa Chiasson of St. Francis School held up her poster that local judges selected as the winning entry from her school for Fort Frances Lions Club’s annual peace poster contest. Chiasson, alongside winning students from other local schools attended the Lions’ meeting this past Tuesday night to be […]
Staff Times’ sports reporter Lucas Punkari celebrated the first real snowfall of the season by making a snow angel in the freshly fallen powder this morning. There’s a chance of more snow tonight and tomorrow, but the mercury is set to rise on the weekend, making it doubtful the white […]
Lucas Punkari Fort Frances Lakers’ goaltender Tyler Ampe joked around with Wisconsin Wilderness forward Andrew Habel during the second period of play in a SIJHL game between the two clubs at the Ice for Kids Arena here on Tuesday night.
Staff Gemma Freisen’s piece of art was selected by local judges as the winning entry from Crossroads School in the Fort Frances Lions Club’s annual peace poster contest. Also tops at their respective schools were Alyssa Chiasson (St. Francis), Jada Eide (Robert Moore), and Rachel Ward (J.W. Walker). Each of […]
the OPP With Crime Prevention Week now underway (Nov. 6-12), the OPP recognizes the need to utilize technology in its delivery of innovative crime prevention strategies to help engage communities in the prevention of crime. Public awareness and education initiatives, such as the OPP Crime Prevention Section’s multi-media and interactive […]
Dave Ogilvie More than 200 people gathered at the Christian Reformed Church in Emo on Saturday (Nov. 5) for the Sturgeon Creek Alternative Program’s annual fall harvest supper and silent auction, organized by the Christian Parents Association. With the prospect of moving their school from Stratton to a new facility […]
the NHU High school students in Northwestern Ontario will be hearing from youth peer-to-peer educators from the Rainbow Resource Center based out of Winnipeg. The students will be learning about the impacts of bullying, marginalization, and discrimination experienced by those who are, or are perceived to be, lesbian, gay, bisexual, […]
Robin McCormick Several Remembrance Day services will be held across the district on Friday (Nov. 11) to honour our war dead. Here in Devlin, a cenotaph service is slated for 2:30 p.m., followed by one in Emo at 3 p.m. As always, Emo Legion Br. #99 is holding special events […]
