Muskie Aiden Wielinga made this par putt during the NWOSSAA championship held Oct. 2 at Kitchen Creek here. Unfortunately, neither he nor teammate Mikel Ward would up qualifying for OFSAA.
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The Associated PressBarry Wilner While the Kansas City Chiefs, New Orleans Saints, and L.A. Rams were mesmerizing pro football fans with their outlandish offensive onslaughts, something else might have gone unnoticed. More teams that failed to make the playoffs in 2017 are in this season than there are repeaters. Yep, […]
Staff Want to start off 2019 with a splash? The Voyageur Lions Club of Fort Frances is going ahead with its “Polar Plunge” tomorrow. The annual fundraiser once again will be held at 1 p.m. on the ice behind La Place Rendez-Vous here. Registration opens at 11 a.m., with the […]
It will be partly cloudy tonight, with an overnight low of minus-26 C (15 below zero F) and north-northwest winds gusting up to 17 km/h. Tomorrow will be sunny but bitterly cold, with a high of just minus-18 (zero) and low plunging to minus-25 (13 below). Look for west-southwest winds […]
Staff The Muskie girls’ hockey team will look to hit the ground running this weekend following their two-week Christmas break. The black-and-gold will be in action at the annual Loop Weekend tournament in Thunder Bay set for this Friday through Sunday, where they’ll face the Midget Fury, Confederation College, and […]
The Canadian PressLori Ewing TORONTO–The Toronto Raptors overcame their worst start of the season, and an offence that moved like molasses, to beat the Chicago Bulls 95-89 last night. It wasn’t pretty but it was a win without Kyle Lowry and Jonas Valanciunas. And the injury-bitten Raptors will take it. […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–The Royal Canadian Mint is creating two commemorative coins to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The Liberal cabinet approved the design of the new toonies, one of which will have multiple colours instead of the usual two-toned coin, to commemorate a key turning point in the […]
The Canadian PressPeter Rakobowchuk MONTREAL–Frederic Pelletier is boldly predicting he and his team will get the New Horizons spacecraft exactly where it should be on New Year’s Day–1.6 billion kilometres beyond Pluto to rendez-vous with a space rock known as Ultima Thule. The goal of the NASA mission is to […]
The Canadian PressJanice Dickson OTTAWA–Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Andrew Scheer’s Conservative party is in the exact same place it was under Stephen Harper’s leadership and that’s why he and his Liberals will continue “pointing out” the similarities. The Liberal party put the Harper stamp on Scheer the day he […]
The Canadian PressMia Rabson OTTAWA–Finishing fourth in a byelection usually is not cause for celebration. But delight was in the air for Elizabeth May and the Green Party of Canada over their candidate’s fourth-place result in the recent byelection in the eastern Ontario riding of Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes. […]
Sam Odrowski Jason Kabel got ready to smack a return to Anika Alexander during their semi-final showdown in the annual Boxing Day squash tournament held at the Memorial Sports Centre here. Kabel took the best-of-five match by a 3-2 margin before falling 3-1 to Steve Boileau in the ‘A’ Open […]
The Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz.–Brandon Pirri has had a late December to remember for the Vegas Golden Knights. The journeyman forward had a goal and assist in the Golden Knights’ 5-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes last night, and has five goals as part of his seven points in the […]
