Nicholas Donaldson The completion date for the merger of St. Michael’s and St. Francis schools here is being delayed for one year. The merger into a single JK-Grade 8 school–to be located at the current site of St. Francis–originally was planned to open for the 2018-19 school. But after consultation […]
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Submitted byJeremy Mann “Mighty Mustangs” wrestling is back at it for a new season in International Falls. Our youth wrestling has been around for about eight years. After a few years of losing kids, due to the Boise/Cascade paper mill cutting 300 jobs, our program is back on track. We […]
Staff Parting the Red Sea worked so well once for the Armstrong Crushers, they decided to play Moses twice. Parker Sisco and Landen Hanson scored almost carbon-copy goals 1:40 apart late in the third period to carry the Crushers past the red-clad Fine Foods Fury 5-4 in the final of […]
Joey Payeur Layton Hanson of the Armstrong Crushers was in fourth gear–and climbing–as he charged up ice against the Fine Foods Fury during his team’s 5-4 in Sunday’s gold-medal game of the Emo-Devlin-Barwick Minor Hockey Association’s Novice tournament at the Emo-La Vallee Arena.
Duane Hicks Lynette Smith put tickets in at one of the penny tables at the “Forget Me Not” dinner Saturday night at La Place Rendez-Vous. The event also featured a silent auction.
The Freeman and Kivimaki families, as has been the norm during many a winter evening for many a year, headed to Everett Freeman’s favourite restaurant a week ago Saturday. After dinner (again, like normal), the group headed in the direction of the Memorial Sports Centre for the evening’s scheduled hockey […]
I was dumbfounded when I read that both Canadian Tire and Walmart were going to receive back taxes from the Town of Fort Frances after a hearing by the Municipal Property Assessment Corp. Where was the province and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario in opposing the reductions in taxes? […]
For the past five years around this time in late January, it’s become a tradition for me to hook up my truck and boat and head south. I’m very fortunate to be able to chase a dream that I’ve had since I was a youngster of making a living as […]
If you had to name one–and only one–moment in your life that was your “very best,” what would it be? Could you honestly do that? I thought I could. I even picked “that one time when . . .” and gave it due credence. But then right in behind it, […]
There hasn’t been many columns that I haven’t started off with my view on the weather. And once again, this weather is terrible. I planned to move my cattle into the calving yard but it is a giant swimming hole right now. I don’t believe this weather is healthy for […]
I listened to an oral essay the other day on the purpose of illness, and if not the purpose, then the positive by-product thereof. We learn valuable lessons from our discomfort of illness, and as our body coughs and wheezes and suffers with fever, it is telling us something and […]
The Canadian PressLauren Krugel CALGARY–Federal Labour minister Patty Hajdu said it’s possible to forge a strong relationship with the new U.S. government while standing up for values that may be at odds with those of the Trump administration. The abrupt turnaround in Canada-U.S. relations is dominating discussions as Prime Minister […]
