The Borderland Thunder won their first game ever, beating the Feathermen Hawks (Thunder Bay) 7-4 in the opener of the Superior International Junior Hockey League’s pre-season tournament this morning in Thunder Bay. Thunder head coach Wayne Strachan was pleased how his team picked up its confidence after trailing 1-0 in […]
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Glen Mills, the associate club pro at Kitchen Creek, carded a seven-over 151 after two rounds of the Ping Canadian Golfers’ Association assistants’ championship in Orillia. He sat in an eight-way tie for 42nd place heading into today’s final round, which teed off this morning at the Hawk Ridge Golf […]
Dr. Peter Sarsfield, medical officer of health and CEO of the Northwestern Health Unit, will make a presentation at the monthly meeting of the Northwest Catholic District School Board on Saturday morning in Stratton. “He’s going to be talking about community involvement in public health services,” Sarsfield’s secretary, Karen Sinclair, […]
Couchiching resident Tom Bruyere was walking along River Road to Fort Frances on Friday to raise money to help maintain the new hemodialysis unit now up and running at La Verendrye hospital here. Bruyere, who discovered he had diabetes 28 years ago, was scheduled to walk about 20 miles on […]
The Superior International Junior Hockey League has decided to go ahead with its inaugural “showcase” tournament in Thunder Bay this weekend–complete with its two U.S.-based teams. There had been some doubt within the camps of the Iron Range Yellow Jackets (Grand Rapids, Mn.) and the Northwest Wisconsin Knights (Spooner) about […]
Although the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration lifted its ban on airline traffic this morning, most passenger flights will not take off until later today. “What I can tell you right now is we are anticipating beginning our flight schedule at 6 p.m. (CST),” said Elizabeth Costello, a spokesperson for Mesaba […]
With frightening images of planes crashing into the World Trade Center and reports of thousands of lost lives dominating the media, schools–including some here–are prepared to deal with any impact of Tuesday’s catastrophic events on students. At schools under the Northwest Catholic District School Board, including St. Michael’s and St. […]
While yesterday’s terrorist attacks made their biggest impacts in New York City and Washington, D.C., the aftermath has affected lives here–especially if you were planning to fly somewhere or drive across the U.S. border. And things still weren’t back to normal as of this morning. Despite some media reports yesterday, […]
In the Fort Frances Times newsroom, staff stood stupefied as a second plane flew into the second of the “twin towers” that make up the World Trade Center in New York City. That’s when everyone realized this disaster was not human error. Like millions of others, we watched as the […]
Fort Frances council has been pushing the buttons to have a remand centre built here and Monday night agreed to put a proposal together for the facility. The town will put together a request for proposal in search of a consultant to put together a package in their bid for […]
As the Borderland Thunder prepare to hit the ice in a pre-season tournament this weekend in Thunder Bay against other Superior International Junior Hoc-key League squads, team officials and ticket sellers are seeing interest starting to build. But whether that interest will translate into dollar signs for the Couchiching First […]
While the growing season is all but over, the tabulations, tests, and result summaries are just beginning for staff at the Emo Research Station. After a summer of desolate crops due to the wrong weather hitting at the wrong time, research station manager Kim Jo Bliss is sorting through the […]
