As the season for game birds officially opens here today, the local Ministry of Natural Resources office is predicting another good season for hunters. “Basically, from a population perspective, the grouse [partridge] are on a 10-year cycle and there should be lots of them,” MNR biologist John Van den Broeck […]
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What a difference a year makes. Last year, the Muskie ‘B’ football team struggled to keep their games against American opponents from turning into blowouts. To them, scoring a touchdown was a moral victory. But this year, under a new football program which created a Muskie ‘C’ team, head coach […]
In what is considered to be an unprecedented move in Canada, Rainy River has voted to merge its minor hockey association with the one in Baudette, Mn. across the bridge. A vote of 23-7 sealed the deal for the two associations, which have been embroiled in a debate over Canadian […]
Greg Ward put the finishing touches on a banner year on the golf course, firing a two-day total of 143 to win this year’s Kitchen Creek club championship by a whopping 10 strokes over Snake Krawchuk. Ward certainly was hot Saturday, firing a three-under par 69, then followed that up […]
Norm Lindsay and his 17-year-old partner, Jess Swenson, reeled in top spot in the third-annual “Bassin’ for Bucks” fishing tournament in Sioux Narrows on Sunday. Their three-day haul totalled 47.58 pounds–good enough to take the $4,000 first prize in the 101-team tournament by a mere .90 pounds. Lindsay/Swenson weighed in […]
Considered a power forward, Andrew George is a hockey player who likes to finish his checks. And next April, he will get a chance to do just that during an international exhibition in the Czech Republic as a member of a Minneapolis-based all-star team. It should be quite an experience […]
If you had told Muskie head coach Bob Swing that his team would be on the receiving end of seven International Falls Bronco fumbles in their game there Friday night, he’d have worn a smile as big as Rainy Lake. Unfortunately, the black-and-gold failed to capitalize on any of those […]
With the NorWOSSA football season cancelled last year, the Muskies were the only team to play a full slate of games–albeit exhibition ones. That left Kenora and Dryden all but losing a full year, which could have been used to develop young talent. And that makes it very difficult to […]
If you had told Muskie head coach Bob Swing that his team would be on the receiving end of seven International Falls Bronco fumbles in their game there Friday night, he’d have worn a smile as big as Rainy Lake. Unfortunately, the black-and-gold failed to capitalize on any of those […]
Last year, John Desaulniers led a team from Fargo, N.D. to a second-place finish at the ‘AA’ World Series, losing 2-0 to a powerhouse team from Madison, Wis. Along the way, he was named as one of the two selections as first-team, all-world pitcher. But this year was a different […]
The Muskie “Bee” football team ran Jock Gemmell left. They ran him up the middle. And they also ran him to the right. And in the end, Gemmell ran the ball into the end zone from one yard out to pull the Muskies into a 6-6 tie with the Roseau […]
When the Thunder Bay Thunder Cats of the United Hockey League elected to move the team to Rockford, Ill. for the upcoming season, there were no guarantees as to what players would make the move with them. But the team did manage to bring back eight from last year’s lineup–including […]
