Staff The third time was the charm for Dan and Josh Pollard over the weekend. After back-to-back years of finishing second to Baudette’s Les Morrison and Morson’s Oliver Gibbins, the Emo natives captured the 18th-annual Emo Walleye Classic with a two-day haul of 15.69 pounds and dethroned the reigning champs. […]
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Staff The Muskie girls’ soccer team was unable to come away with a win on the rain-soaked final day of the regular season but still clinched a first-place bye to next Wednesday’s (May 29) NorWOSSA final in Dryden. Fort High dropped both of its matches against the host Kenora Broncos […]
Staff It’s been a great start to the Rainy River District Fastball League season for the two-time defending champion Fort Frances Braves. Cole Tymkin smacked another homer to pace the Braves to a 17-1 rout of the Manitou Thunderbirds on Tuesday night to improve their record to a perfect 3-0. […]
Press Release The Fort Frances Curling Club, Curl Moncton, and the Sydney Curling Club in Sydney, N.S., were each recipients of low-interest $25,000 loans from Curling Canada to improve their respective facilities. The revamped Curling Assistance Program, which was launched this past summer, offers low-interest loans, to a maximum of […]
Staff A great night of racing led to Tanner Williamson’s first-ever feature win at the Borderland Racing Association’s season-opener Saturday at the Emo Speedway. The Fort Frances native had four top-five and six top-10 finishes to his credit last season in the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds division but was unable to […]
Jamie Mountain Anything can happen in the playoffs and both the Rainy River Owls’ girls’ and boys’ soccer teams hope things will land in their favour this week. The girls’ squad ended the NorWOSSA ‘A’ regular season with a loss and a draw to the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) […]
Staff All signs are indicating that the Fort Frances Braves will be the ones to beat yet again this season. In an all-out blitz of power, the two-time defending champions slugged six homeruns en route to a 16-2 thrashing of Windey’s Warriors in Rainy River District Fastball League action last […]
Jamie Mountain Steady improvement and a desire to succeed is what any coach hopes to see from their team over the course of the season. The Muskie track-and-field team has done that in spades so far this season and took another giant leap in their development at the Last Chance […]
Staff You could say the Big Grassy Lynx bit a chunk out of the Fort Frances Mud Dogs. The Lynx jumped all over Mud Dogs’ starter Jodie Hood en-route to a 12-run first inning and never looked back in a 21-12 romp in Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League action […]
Jamie Mountain The Muskie boys’ soccer team set two goals for themselves heading into this season. The first was to clinch a first-place bye to the NorWOSSA final and the second was to advance to OFSAA. Fort High has already accomplished the former, dispatching both the Kenora Broncos and host […]
Staff Another meet led to another plethora of excellent finishes for the Muskie track-and-field team last week. The black-and-gold competed hard and made its mark at the Last Chance Invite varsity meet held in Baudette, Mn. on Thursday. The Muskies finished 1-2 in the boys’ 100m dash, with Carson Noga […]
Staff It was another near perfect day for the Muskie boys’ and girls’ soccer team at the second slate of NorWOSSA games in Dryden yesterday. The boys’ squad won both of their games against the Kenora Broncos and host Eagles to improve their league-best record to 4-0. The Muskies have […]
