The Emo Selects won both their games in recent minor hockey action, first downing the MEC Bulldogs (Fort Frances) by a 3-1 count on goals by Eric Soucy, Tyson Romyn, and John Roulston. Curtis Logue bagged MEC’s lone marker. Then the Selects blanked Causeway (Fort Frances) 4-0 on the strength […]
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If you’re wondering how difficult it is to stop a runaway train, just ask the Kenora Broncos. Their task was to stop the high-flying, fast-breaking Muskie senior boys’ basketball team during NorWOSSA action there yesterday and the end result wasn’t pretty. The first-place Muskies thrashed the host Broncos 75-27 for […]
Denny Nelson is hoping to hook onto the popularity of bass fishing by running a tournament Sept. 8-9 from the Island View Lodge east of International Falls. The tournament will feature two-person teams, just like the successful Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship that runs here in late July. A one-day […]
Dear Mike: Thank you for publishing the picture of the 1953 Muskie football team in the Wednesday, Jan. 26 edition of the Times. This letter would be of interest to other FFHS football players. On Friday, July 7, at the beginning of the FFHS Millennium Reunion, there will be a […]
Dear sir: This letter is in response to Gary Sundmark’s letter, “Try enticement, not coercion.” I agree with Mr. Sundmark on two issues. First, the price of trail passes is too high and anyone that knows me knows I have been very vocal about this issue. I also think the […]
Local MP Robert Nault doesn’t see any “insurmountable” challenges left in completing the new Canada Customs facility here, predicting construction could begin early this summer and be completed by fall. “I believe it will cause us a lot of revenue,” Nault, who’s also the minister of Indian Affairs and Northern […]
Municipalities across Rainy River District have thrown their support with Riverside Health Care Facilities Inc. in hopes of getting a satellite dialysis unit at La Verendrye hospital here. The resolution, forwarded by the Township of Morley, was passed at Saturday’s annual meeting of the Rainy River District Municipal Association in […]
It’s too early to make a call–either way–on forming an area services board (ASB), delegates agreed Saturday at the Rainy River District Municipal Association’s annual meeting. Fort Frances council sent a resolution to the RRDMA asking it to suspend “indefinitely” the application it had made last year to form an […]
The competition is on to see which of the 47 nominees will walk away with an award from the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s fifth-annual Business Awards banquet later this month. The deadline for nominations was Friday, with the banquet slated Feb. 12 at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Nominees […]
The Safe Communities Incentive Program will live for a third year in Rainy River District after 26 new members signed up by the Jan. 31 deadline. “We did it!” SCIP co-ordinator Jeannette Cawston enthused yesterday morning. “The combined efforts of the small businesses and the Rainy River Future Development Corp. […]
Following a Superior Court ruling last month that upheld aboriginal hunting and fishing rights for Ontario Métis, Gary Lipinski said the Métis Nation of Ontario now can only wait to see if negotiations can be arranged at a meeting today in Toronto. “We’re reluctantly optimistic at this point, and we […]
The fourth-annual benefit dinner took on a life of its own here Friday night as the 280 people on hand raised almost $13,000 to help finance the medical needs of two local residents–surpassing last year’s fundraiser by nearly $4,000. The evening, which also featured a silent and live auction, was […]
