I am having a mixed green salad for supper tonight. I’m not expecting your applause for my healthy meal choice nor do I think you should care about what I am eating, but I do hope you care about what I am going to tell you about the dressing I […]
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Staff The Sight & Sound Wolves had a howling good night offensively last Thursday. Sight & Sound used a pair of homeruns in the second inning as part of a four-run frame and never looked back as they cruised to a 14-3 romp over Windey’s Warriors in Rainy River District […]
Press Release
Riverside Foundation for Health Care is excited to announce the winner of this year’s Canada Day Cash Lottery early bird prize is Salem Seid of Fort Frances! The draw was at the third-annual Spring Market at the Fort Frances Curling Club on Saturday. Seid won an all-inclusive fishing trip to […]
Staff
Eight district participants took part in the Manitoba Provincial Festival this past weekend in Winnipeg. Anna Schwartz, who just wrapped up her first year attending Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg, finished first in the senior piano and J.S. Bach categories. Meanwhile, Brianna Eldridge placed second in the Intermediate Mozart […]
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Marc Stuempfle
Marc Stuempfle
The Fort Frances Fire & Rescue Service is focused on returning to the senior community homes and trying to reach out to all seniors about the impending risks of fires in their homes. Across Canada, the senior citizen population is growing, and Fort Frances is no exception to that trend. […]
Press Release
Please join over 100 people to raise awareness of autism this Saturday during the Borderland Autism Awareness Walk. While April is World Autism Awareness Month, we are having our awareness walk on Saturday, June 1, as the weather is more conducive to outdoor activities. Normally, we hold this event in […]
Staff
Libraries across Northern Ontario are working together to fight back against the province’s 50 percent funding cut to the provincially funded agency that provide them service year round. They have launched an advocacy campaign and website called SaveOLSN.ca to highlight the work that Ontario Library Service North (OLS-N) does for […]
Jamie Mountain It was a banner day for the Muskie track-and-field team at the annual Harry McMaster Classic meet held in Dryden last Thursday. The black-and-gold needed a wheelbarrow to bring home all of the hardware they earned home as the team earned a plethora of medals and smashed personal […]
Sam Odrowski
Earlier in the year, the Conservative Party selected Linda Rydholm as their candidate for the Thunder Bay-Rainy River riding in the upcoming federal election. The former Thunder Bay city councillor recently visited Fort Frances to attend the Treaty #3 National Spring Assembly a couple of weeks ago as well as […]
Jamie Mountain Another successful regular season is officially in the books and the Muskie boys’ soccer team is one step closer to their ultimate goal. The conditions were poor and they definitely didn’t play their best brand of soccer, but the black-and-gold still managed to earn a win and a […]
Press Release
Voyageurs National Park will offer a new tour for visitors this summer. The 49-passenger Voyageur tour boat will offer a “Life on the Lake Tour,” which aims to tell how various people managed to make a living on Rainy Lake. The tour will stop at the Harry Oveson Fish Camp, […]
Sam Odrowski
For the first time since its inception in 1955, the Silver Muskie Lodge is owned and operated by Canadians. Local residents Dave and Kristi Poirier purchased the 3,500-square-foot hotel-style lodge at the end of April and are gearing up for the fishing season. The Silver Muskie Lodge is about 40 […]
