Mitch Calvert Conditions have been far from ideal for those teams pre-fishing ahead of tomorrow’s start of the 15th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. Cold rains and strong winds haunted anglers all last week before briefly subsiding over the weekend—only to return in full force again Monday and Tuesday during […]
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Peggy Revell Local nature-lovers are in for a treat as just over 400 feet of new cedar boardwalk has been installed to improve the Cranberry Peatlands’ Interpretive Trail in Alberton. “It’s more accessible, drier,” Ahlan Johanson, a member of the Rainy River Valley Field Naturalists, said about having the new […]
Mitch Calvert In his role as the Muskie football team’s defensive co-ordinator from 1994-2000, Brent DeBenedet schemed all sorts of preventive measures to thwart opponents’ offensives. Now a father living in Appleton, Wis., DeBenedet and his wife, Tracy Wirtanen, are actively fundraising to help find a drug to hold off […]
Mitch Calvert Ever wondered where those kids from the Borderland Thunder ended up? Well, if Dean Bruyere has his way, you may be seeing plenty of familiar faces from those days coming back to an arena near you. Just with a little bit more facial hair, perhaps. Bruyere is spearheading […]
Peggy Revell What the recent $1.2 billion funding announcement from the provincial and federal governments for social housing means for the district was the big topic at last Thursday’s meeting of the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board. Under the Social Housing Renovation and Retrofit Program (SHRRP), the DSSAB […]
Elisabeth Heslop After many years of serving the community, “The Treasure Chest” is closing its doors. Located at 338 Scott St., the Fort Frances and District Association For Community Living-run consignment store was started to provide a venue for people with intellectual disabilities to get training and experience in the […]
Elisabeth Heslop The first cut of hay has been taken in, the cereal crops are heading out, the canola is blooming, and the veggies are, well, new. The Emo Agriculture Research Station is growing a handful of rows of lettuce and carrots this year—something it hasn’t done before. Kim Jo […]
Staff Greg Ward is no stranger to winning golf tournaments in these parts, and that edge in experience was the difference Sunday as he prevailed in a playoff to capture the Heron Landing Men’s Open. Ward, who fired identical rounds of 76 last year to finish second with a two-day […]
Mitch Calvert Donovan Taylor’s trip to the Canadian Age Group Championships in Montreal last week can be chalked up as a learning experience. The Fort Frances Aquanaut swimmer turned 15 just two weeks ago and had to compete up an age group—and thus wasn’t expecting any miracles at the meet. […]
Mitch Calvert This Saturday night (July 25) will mark the 55th anniversary of the Emo Speedway. The track has seen its share of ups and downs over the years, but no one knows that better than 90-year-old Raoul Cayer, who took the checkered flag that first race back on July […]
Mitch Calvert It’s been a whirlwind summer for Fort Frances native Steve Arpin. Despite a string of four-straight top-10 finishes on the ARCA RE/MAX Series, the 25-year-old likely is nearing the end of his tenure with Eddie Sharp Racing unless some funding can be secured following this Saturday’s Wolverine Power […]
All eyes will be focused on the Sorting Gap Marina for the rest of this week as our community’s biggest summer event, the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, hits the water once again for what promises to be another exciting three days of top-notch fishing competition. Before our attention shifts […]
