After weeks of appealing to town council to reverse its decision not to fill a full-time position left vacant by a retirement in March, the local volunteer firefighting brigade finally got its way Monday, sort of. With about a dozen volunteers on hand, council announced at Monday night’s regular meeting […]

Playoffs for the local adult mixed slo-pitch get underway tonight with five games on the docket. The Rural Reps, the top team in the ‘A’ bracket, will play sixth-place West End on the Central diamond at the St. Francis Sportsfield at 6:45 p.m. while second-ranked Investors will face the fifth-place […]

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Nicole Horn, 10, jumped her way through a hockey stick obstacle this morning at the ‘52 Canadians Arena. Horn was one of the 19 youths involved with a sports camp that is being run until the end of the week. —Emmanuel Moutsatsos

Members of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, the Rainy River Watershed Program, and the Rainy River Valley Field Naturalists held an impromptu dance around “Chester” – a statue carved by Rick Neilson at Neilson’s farm north of Stratton on Saturday night. The statue burned until dawn. –Michael Hilborn photo

After 45 holes were played at the first-annual Onigaming tournament at Heron Landing on Couchiching over the weekend, Bob Crowe was proclaimed the winner by two strokes. Crowe, who sports a three handicap, said he played steady and “hung in there and that’s about all I did” as he topped […]

The pair of Minnesota anglers won the 18th-annual Kenora Bass International, a three-day tournament on Lake of the Woods that wrapped up on Saturday. John Liestman and David Heitke of Paynesville netted the $30,000 first prize after hauling in a total weight of 50.65 pounds. Bill Godin of Devlin and […]