Jamie Mountain You couldn’t ask for a better start to the season. The defending NorWOSSA champion Muskie senior girls’ basketball team made an emphatic early statement as they cruised to a 52-17 rout of the Broncos in the season-opener last Tuesday in Kenora. Muskie coach Gord McCabe said that the […]

Jamie Mountain Todd Moxham, left, Justin Lewtas, Brent Adamson, Lorne Jackson, Lloyd Stansell, and Ron Silver all were hard at work getting the ice prepared for an exciting curling season ahead at the Fort Frances Curling Club and posed for a photo on Monday morning. Stansell has been an ice […]

Jamie Mountain Boston Pizza here has come on as a sponsor for the Fort Frances Curling Club this season and had their logo painted onto one of the rings at the rink recently.

One of the Rainycrest residents attending dinner at La Place Rendez-Vous was incorrectly named in a photo on page A6 of last week’s Fort Frances Times. The woman identified as Greta Eide instead should have been identified as Mary Kolynchuk. The Times apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Jamie Mountain With the return of fall comes the return of the high school cross-country running season. This year’s edition of the Muskies has been hard work in preparation for the NorWOSSA season, which officially kicks off today with the SSSAA Time Trials in Thunder Bay. Members of the black-and-gold […]

Press Release

Riverside Foundation for Health Care received a welcome donation in the amount of $5,859 from the Emo Thrift Shop and Food Bank to purchase a new chair for the chemotherapy department at La Verendrye General Hospital. The new chair, which gives patients the freedom to independently adjust it, is fitted […]

Submitted Pictured here with the new chair are Riverside Foundation director Allison Cox, left, Emo Thrift Shop & Food Bank board of directors Nancy Flook, Eileen Bragg, Victor Gustafson, Charlene McTavish, Lincoln Dunn and Carol Hyatt, along with chemotherapy patient Cheryl Foster.

Do you remember Woody Woodpecker? He came to life in 1940, created by Walter Lantz and his studio after a sleepless night in the California woods on his honeymoon where a woodpecker insisted on hammering away on the cabin’s roof for most of the night. The next night a heavy […]

After a long season that started way back in February, the final Bassmaster Elite Series regular season event took place this past weekend in Oklahoma on Tenkiller Lake and it was the toughest test that anglers faced all year. We were supposed to fish Oklahoma’s Fort Gibson Lake back in […]

Tonight will have a shower or thunderstorm along with a low of eight C (46 F). Tomorrow will have partial sunshine with some clouds at night. Expect a high of 15 (59) and low of three (27). Thursday will be mostly cloudy, with a shower in the area during the […]