The Associated PressBen Nuckols WASHINGTON–As he slogged through a season at Triple-A Syracuse that didn’t appear to be leading anywhere, Tommy Milone started rediscovering the control that made him a reliable starter in the majors. Now, the 31-year-old left-hander is pitching meaningful games for a team trying to get back […]
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Staff Another SIJHL season is almost upon us. The Fort Frances Lakers yesterday announced its four-game pre-season schedule for the 2018-19 season. Fort Frances will do battle in a pair of home-and-home series–the first coming against the Minnesota Iron Rangers The Lakers will travel to Hoyt Lakes on Sept. 8 […]
The Canadian PressDan Ralph TORONTO–Trumaine Washington’s patience has been rewarded. The rookie cornerback will make his first CFL start tonight when the Toronto Argonauts host the Ottawa Redblacks. Washington was impressive during training camp but started the season on the practice roster. Washington cracked the active roster in Toronto’s 38-20 […]
Staff Duane Carlson wasn’t going to let his squad’s season come to an end. Carlson crushed a walk-off homer in the bottom of the eighth to lift the second-seeded Sight & Sound Wolves into the Rainy River District Fastball League’s East Division final with a thrilling 6-5 win over the […]
Jamie Mountain It was an all-out race up the pitch during the first half of Al’s Racquet Stringing’s 6-1 win over La Place Rendez-Vous in Borderland Soccer League women’s division action Tuesday evening at the St. Francis Sports Field. The two squads are slated to face each other again tonight […]
The Canadian PressAdina Bresge Experts say a recent Statistics Canada report on gender disparities in unpaid labour paints a dim yet familiar picture about the burdens women face at home and in the workforce. The report, published Monday, found that men and women aged 25-54 work roughly the same number […]
The Canadian PressPaola Loriggio TORONTO–Doug Ford is bringing the same kind of chaos that defined his tenure at Toronto city hall to the Ontario legislature, the province’s opposition parties suggested Tuesday as flaring tensions derailed debate over a controversial government proposal. Discussions over a government bill that would slash Toronto […]
Staff Al’s Racquet Stringing wasn’t going to lose three games in a row–not if Natalie Desjardins could help it. Desjardins scored four times, including a natural hat trick in the second half, to pace Al’s to a 6-1 romp over a short-handed La Place Rendez-Vous squad in Borderland Soccer League […]
“Bob Wepruk & the Northern Jammers” will hold a free concert tonight (Aug. 2) from 6-8 p.m. at the Rainy Lake Square. Their country and bluegrass tunes will be sure to get you dancing. Also be sure to bring a lawn chair. The Halkirk fire protection team will hold its […]
The Canadian PressPaola Loriggio TORONTO–As anti-poverty advocates denounced the Ontario government’s decision to scrap a basic income pilot project, the province defended the move yesterday by suggesting the program discouraged participants from finding work. Although the Progressive Conservatives had promised to preserve the pilot project, Social Services minister Lisa MacLeod […]
From the OPP With the first half of the year behind them, the OPP has laid 932 “Move Over” charges so far this year against drivers who failed to slow down and move over when approaching an emergency vehicle with its lights flashing. While the year-to-date number sets the stage […]
Stephanie Hagenaars Melanie Chin, an optometry summer student from the University of Waterloo working at Lidkea Optometry here, drew the August winner of the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club’s “Trip of the Month” at International Travel Services here yesterday morning while local Kiwanian Robin Wright looked on. Ron Fryer from Fort […]
