Staff Kyle Uzelman had an impressive debut for the Fort Frances Lakers as he collected the game-winner early in overtime and dished out four assists as his new side withstood a big comeback by the expansion Wisconsin Lumberjacks to nab a wild 6-5 decision in SIJHL action on Saturday night […]
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Staff Week 4 action in the Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League saw the BDO Ballerz and Arctic Cat suffer their first losses of the season. The Muskies took on Sunset Landscaping in the early game, with each side having poor attendance with only four players dressing for their squads. But […]
The Canadian PressLauren Krugel SIKSIKA, Alta.–A more than 2,000-year-old bison skull unearthed during utility work in downtown Banff, Alta., has been returned to a southern Alberta Indigenous community. “It’s like a welcome home to the buffalo skull,” Siksika Nation councillor Eldon Weasel Child said Friday. The skull was given a […]
The Canadian PressDonna Spencer REGINA–Zach Collaros is happy to ride the whirlwind. A Winnipeg Blue Bomber for less than six weeks, the quarterback helped his new team to a 20-13 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders in yesterday’s West final and to a berth in the Grey Cup. The Bombers, who […]
Jamie Mountain Sean Huziak, left, Wyatt Richards, Brady Meeks, Aaron Scheibler, and Ayden Gushulak-Kelly were among the Muskie football team players who were nothing but smiles as they celebrated and hoisted the Canad Inns Bowl trophy as the Currie Division (‘A’) champions after a thrilling 65-49 win over the Churchill […]
Sam Odrowski Rochelle Duchnicki, left, Sandy McKinnon, and Sally Stewart enjoyed a cup of hot tea at St. Mary’s Parish yesterday afternoon for the Catholic Women’s League’s Christmas tea and bazaar. The perennially-popular event featured mini-draws, prize tables, a silent auction, Christmas table, and a variety of items for sale.
Ken Kellar Rainy River District Victim Services (RRDVSP) volunteer co-ordinator Sue Carlson, left, Riverside Health Care president and CEO Ted Scholten, RRDVSP program manager Peggy Loyie, Riverside Health Care nurse manager Lori Green, Riverside Community Counselling Services community family violence counsellor Jacquee Loerzel, Riverside Health Care director of inpatient and […]
From the OPP
Members of the Dryden Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received information of a suspicious vehicle on Railway Avenue in the Municipality of Machin last Wednesday at approximately 12 p.m. Police later located the vehicle at 7-Eleven in the City of Dryden. An officer attempted to conduct a traffic […]
From the OPP
Shortly after 11 a.m. last Wednesday (Nov. 13), members of the Rainy River District detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to the Canada Post office in Atikokan. The Atikokan Fire Department, Rainy River District Emergency Response Service (EMS) were also called to attend. Employees at the post […]
The Canadian Press WHITEHORSE–A ceramic urn in the shape of a human toe will soon hold the ashes of the founder of the legendary Sourtoe Cocktail, the whisky drink that comes with the touch of a pickled human big toe. Dick Stevenson, the former Dawson City, Yukon, bartender known by […]
Tonight will see a chance of flurries with a low of one below zero C (30 F). Tomorrow will bring a chance of flurries or rain, with flurries continuing overnight and a high of two (36) and a low of minus-five (23). Wednesday will have continued chances of flurries all […]
Staff It’s been a great start to the season for the Muskie boys’ hockey team. After dispatching the host Kenora Broncos by a 13-0 count last Tuesday, the black-and-gold followed that up by going 4-0 and snaring the title at the annual Dryden Eagles’ tournament held Friday and Saturday. The […]
