Lottie Halvorsen, 88, of Emo, Ont., passed away at the Emo Health Centre in Emo on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003. She was born March 23, 1915 in Grygla, Mn. to John and Nora Hagen. At a young age, her family moved to the Blackhawk, Ont. area, where they homesteaded. On […]
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Misty Fay Bahr, 28 of Minneapolis, Mn., formerly of International Falls, Mn., passed away Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003 at Fairview University Hospital in Minneapolis. She was born Nov. 2, 1975 in International Falls. She graduated from Falls High School in 1994 and from Hamline University in 1998 with a Bachelor […]
Janet Marie Gosselin, 37, of International Falls, Mn., passed away Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003 at Fairview University Hospital in Minneapolis, Mn. after a long battle with diabetes. She was born Feb. 6, 1966 in International Falls. She graduated from Falls High School in 1984 and was a life-long resident of […]
A broken fuel line on the team bus was the only thing that could slow down the Muskie boys’ hockey squad last weekend as they went into the Christmas break with a pair of easy exhibition wins. Steven Sus and Greg Flewelling each scored twice to lead the Muskies over […]
If you were looking for big-time athletic thrills, you could have done much worse than be in Rainy River District the past 12 months. From high-profile hockey tournaments to another extremely exciting Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, and with a cornucopia of amateur sports mixed in, there was no shortage […]
Steve Boileau adopted the philosophy that if you win all your games, scoreboard watching becomes irrelevant. A round-robin event usually compels participants to keep a close eye on what’s going on around them—even if they’re not playing at a particular juncture. But Boileau eliminated all manner of doubt as to […]
Forget two front teeth or an X-Box—all the Borderland Thunder wanted for Christmas was four points. And if that meant opening their present early, so be it. The Thunder (9-13-1-1) went into their holiday break making a joyful noise as they captured an important pair of victories against the K&A […]
The local K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ hockey team continued its dazzling run this season by claiming the Morden Hawks tournament in Morden, Man. over the weekend. The Knights, who have won all three tournaments they’ve entered this season, have not lost to a Canadian PeeWee team yet. Fort […]
‘X’ marked the spot where Rob Gavel put together one of his best results of the sno-cross racing season. The youngest member of the Gavel racing family based in Stratton, the 15-year-old zoomed to a fifth-place finish in the Junior 14-15 age group at a World Snowmobile Association nationals event […]
With renovation work on the old Fort Frances High School well underway, some local citizens have started a committee to preserve memories and pieces of history from the First Street East building. The Saving School Memories Committee had its first meeting last week, motivated by Vic Nowak. “I thought it […]
Dear sir: I read with interest the article, “Ruling on smoking issue not expected until new year,” which appeared in the Dec. 17 edition of the Fort Frances Times. Dr Sarsfield’s comments were particularly intriguing. He is quoted as saying that “The review board has neither the experience nor the […]
Dear sir: This letter is in response to Natural Resources minister David Ramsay’s announcement last week not to reintroduce the spring bear hunt—despite protests from local municipalities, businesses, sportsmen, tourist outfitters, and the many businesses they deal with. This issue started with animal rights groups and politicians without much though […]
