While it’s difficult to be satisfied with a loss, the Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team can feel a little better after taking Whitefish Bay to a fifth and deciding game in NorWOSSA action here yesterday afternoon. After being dominated by the Winterhawks in a pair of tournament games here last […]
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Carol Livingston was the ladies’ club champion at Kitchen Creek this season, finishing ahead of Donna Lee, it was announced at last night’s wind-up banquet. Carla Krawchuk was awarded the Green Cup while Ann Onichuk picked up the Olga Asplund Sr. Ladies Trophy, finishing ahead of Gerry Cousineau. Christen Thomson, […]
Despite playing a schedule made up of ‘A’ teams this season, the Muskies are finding out these schools can still play some very good volleyball. In fact, while the boys’ senior team, considered an “AA” squad, finished the round-robin portion of a two-day tournament here with an impressive 3-1 record, […]
In the wake of merger announcements and the McKay task force report, there could be another bank moving into town. Canada Safeway confirmed it was “looking closely” at setting up a Bank of Montreal branch in its renovated store in Fort Frances. It all depends on the cost, available floor […]
Fort Frances town council will wait another two weeks before deciding who it will hire–if anyone–to analyze documentation to ensure it is paying its fair share of the “multi-use” project. Three companies were asked to submit proposals–KGS Consulting, Kuch Stephenson (which is working on the ice project here), and Engineering […]
Contract talks aren’t over but the striking Communications, Energy, and Papermakers union has agreed to let contractors cross the picket lines in order to dredge the basins at the mill’s lagoon on Eighth Street. Work was to start today after Abitibi-Consolidated went out for quotes on the project last week, […]
Freeze up could spell disaster for Emo’s water supply and that has council there looking at its options tonight to nip the problem before winter hits. Any decision could depend on the price tag the solution comes with. But with freeze up normally in November, the municipality is hoping to […]
The Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition is taking the challenge–“The Seat Belt Challenge,” that is. Volunteers will be standing along streets in Fort Frances, Emo, and Atikokan this Saturday from 1:30-3:30 p.m. to count how many people are wearing seat belts as part of the annual provincial campaign, which runs […]
Those visiting La Verendrye hospital won’t be paying for a parking spot there anytime soon. The board of directors of Riverside Health Care Facilities decided at its regular meeting last Thursday to push back the implementation date in order to look at fee options. Acting CEO Liz Clarke said the […]
After six weeks of living with a domestic water shortage, Atikokan residents can feel more at ease these days now that the state of emergency there has been lifted. Construction on the Plateau Lake dam project also will begin soon. “The construction has already started on the road to the […]
A strong desire to get a first-hand look at the culture of a country other than their own has landed six international students in school at Fort High. Three of them are here for 10 weeks. They’ve each been linked with a district host family that includes a teenager who […]
It was 1948 when Fran Mutch, Betty Heffelfinger, Eileen Green, and Sybil Mowe graduated from the nursing program at the old Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg. Last week, the foursome gathered in Fort Frances to catch up on each others’ lives and reminisce about their school days a half-century ago. And […]
