Season passports for the 2022-23 Tour de Fort Concert Series are 50% sold out, with just under a month to go before The Trews Acoustic Trio kick off the season at Townshend Theatre on Friday, October 14th. A Tour de Fort Passport is the ONLY way to guarantee a spot […]
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The Muskies Football team took a 15-0 loss to the Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute Maroons in Winnipeg last Friday. Above, Fletcher Klug holds off an opponent after catching the ball. Right, #1 Hayden Beckett makes a dash for the end zone, but was unable to secure a touchdown. Muskie Seamus […]
Fort Frances High School Muskies went through hockey tryouts last week. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams had four on-ice sessions. The teams will take to the ice later in the fall with the hopes of making it back to all-Ontario championships after they have been cancelled due to COVID […]
By Olivia Seguin
4-H Press reporter
4-H Press reporter
On September 11, 2022 we held our Explorers 2.0 4-H meeting at our leader Krista Olson’s house. The meeting was about bread making. When we were all there we took attendance, Jessica Teeple, Landon Teeple, Sydney Romyn, Emily Romyn, Georgia Romyn, Rihanna Morrison, Olivia Seguin, Hailey Wilson, Melania Olson and […]
Many children, and even a percentage of adults, have never had fresh pasta. All they know is that pasta comes dry in a box or bag. Not only is the texture of cooked fresh pasta superior to dry, the process of making it can be quite liberating. Making a well […]
While most of the bass tournaments across the region happen on the bigger waterbodies, like Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods, there are a few that happen each year on smaller lakes. This past weekend, the annual Crow Lake Classic was put on again out of Hanson’ Hideaway Lodge […]
When the current big-league baseball season ends, no longer will you see pitchers indefinitely throwing to hold runners at first base, as they often do. No more wondering why the second-baseman is playing right field while the shortstop is on the wrong side of second base. Forget about going to […]
Friday and Saturday marked the return of the Rainy River Walleye Tournament in the west end town, and the public had plenty on offer to take part in while waiting for the fishing teams to return, from food trucks and craft vendors to pull-tabs and a books sale put on […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Bell tolls, moments of silence and brief pauses in transit services were observed Monday afternoon across Ontario in memory of Queen Elizabeth II as her official state funeral concluded. Canada and Ontario declared Monday a Day of Mourning to coincide with the funeral, and Premier Doug Ford encouraged people to […]
By Liam Casey
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Public-sector workers’ constitutional bargaining rights are not infringed by Ontario’s wage-cap law, the province told court Monday. Groups representing hundreds of thousands of public sector employees are challenging the constitutionality of Bill 124, a law passed in 2019 that limits wage increases at one per cent per year for Ontario […]
By Sam Laskaris
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Windspeaker.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Windspeaker.com
Nipissing First Nation Chief Scott McLeod has plenty of praise for Ontario Northland Railway officials. That’s because the provincial transportation company has rolled out a locomotive that is painted orange and has the phrase Every Child Matters emblazoned on it. The unveiling comes just before the National Day of Truth […]
