After winning the past two Kitchen Creek Classic men’s titles, and fresh off earning honourary all-American honours at a U.S. national golf tournament in Tulsa, Okla., it’s quite clear Gareth Payne knows how to compete under pressure. And now Payne will be looking to handle the pressure of winning his […]

Tagg’s, who sit atop the local men’s soccer league, went into last weekend’s “Borderland Ball Blast ’97” tourney stressing defence. And it paid off. After reeling off three straight shutouts, Tagg’s held Peach Valley (Dryden) scoreless through regulation time and the 10-minute overtime in Sunday’s final before winning the game […]

The Fort Frances Blue Jays brought home bronze medals after placing third in their division at the Ontario Special Olympics Summer Games in Chatham last weekend. The local team finished with one win against a pair of losses in three games. Danny Smith and Larry Flatt both homered in the […]

Although she is one of the dominant scorers in the Borderland Women’s Soccer League this season, MEC right-winger Keira Main calls her play-making abilities her most outstanding asset. Tied for second in scoring with Melissa Armstrong of Causeway (both with 16 goals), the 21-year-old former Muskie, who played in the […]

Dave and Norm Lindsay had a good day Sunday but they failed to win the “triple crown.” With victories at Shoal Lake and Fort Frances already under their belts, the Sioux Narrows brothers were heavy favourites going into the 10th-annual Kenora Bass International tournament last weekend. And while they weighed […]

The Muskie hockey team will be holding its tryout camp for the 1997-98 season Aug. 18-23 at Memorial Arena–two months earlier than in past years. The training camp, which usually begins in the last week of October, is a break from tradition, said head coach Terry Ogden, adding this year’s […]

A severe lack of rain over most of the district for much of this summer has area farmers looking for water–both for their crops and for themselves. Drought-like conditions have dried much of the countryside up like a bone, and rural residents are starting to feel its effects. “A few […]

Don’t be surprised if you see about 150 people walking, running, or biking on Highway 621 from Sleeman to Bergland this Saturday starting at 8 a.m. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints will be celebrating the pioneers who moved to Bergland from Minnesota in 1907, and […]

It’s looking like the Corporation of the Township of Lake of the Woods may be a New Year’s baby as McCrosson-Tovell and Morson move to amalgamate for Jan. 1. In the process, the new township would annex a large part of the unincorporated area on Lake of the Woods in […]

It all began five years ago when Carol Booth of Devlin received a phone call from London, England. She never expected it would be from her half-sister, Margaret Getty, whom she hadn’t seen in more than three decades. Eventually, Getty decided to take a two-week vacation to Canada for her […]

It was supposed to provide clear answers to all their questions but district municipalities are still scrambling to find out what the downloading of responsibilities from the province will mean to their pocketbooks in 1998. Only Dawson, McCrosson-Tovell, and Morson were able to give estimates on what it would mean […]

Property tax cuts should average five to 10 percent across the province by the year 2000 through the provincial-municipal swap of services, Municipal Affairs and Housing minister Al Leach pledged last week. But others are calling that statement false, accusing the government of merely “passing the buck” to municipalities. Terry […]