The 2002 Muskie boys’ soccer team hopes a little bit of everything will be enough to end a three-year drought for NorWOSSA gold. “It’s starting to really come around, especially practices the last part of last week and this week,” said Muskie co-coach Rick Chambers, who has been working with […]
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Parents are at a loss as to how they can keep Alberton Central School open. Next Wednesday at a meeting of the Rainy River District School Board at Donald Young School in Emo, trustees will vote on whether to close Alberton Central, Alexander MacKenzie, and Sixth Street in favour of […]
The Hair and Body Shoppe in Emo raised more than $6,200 at its fifth-annual “Cuts for Cancer” fundraiser during last weekend’s Spring Fever Days. This year, the salon raised money for Shirley Allen of Barwick, who currently is battling breast cancer. “We cut hair all day Saturday, [with] all proceeds […]
Born to Nathan and Lonnie (nee Sultvedt) of Fossoton, Mn., a baby boy, Mason Gregory Donald, weighing 5 lbs. 12 oz. on February 26, 2002. Proud grandparents are Greg and Pauline Perreault of Fort Frances and Don and Joyce Sultvedt of Lengby, Mn. Proud great-grandmothers are Theresa Perreault of Fort […]
“George Armstrong is the luckiest man I know,” J.A. Mathieu told me one day. “He gets a contract to build a highway and finds a gold mine!” The old logger could be accused of expressing some jealousy here, having just lost a lawsuit that left Armstrong as sole owner of […]
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind,” wrote Samuel Ullman at the turn of the last century. At the time, Ullman was already past 70. Furthermore, his hearing loss had forced him to retire from his business. But his retirement afforded him an opportunity […]
