Staff An aptly-named competition, entitled “Fort Frances Freeze–Super Series,” took place here Friday and Saturday. The local Border Skating Club hosted skaters from seven other clubs at the province-wide meet, which is a qualifying event for the Ontario Provincial Championship slated for March 7-10 in Mississauga. Even though it was […]
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Jamie Mountain The recent cold snap has made things difficult across Northwestern Ontario–and the Fort Frances Lakers experienced some of that over the weekend. Bus issues for both teams forced the postponement of the Lakers’ home-and-home series against the Dryden GM Ice Dogs that had been scheduled for Friday and […]
Staff A seven-goal outburst in the third period helped the Fort Frances Atom ‘AA’ Canadians to storm all the way back and claim the gold medal with an 11-5 win over the Dryden Paper Kings in the final of their annual home tournament Sunday afternoon at “The Duke” (Couchiching Arena). […]
Staff Five local bowlers now know how they’ll be spending the week of Easter: competing at the provincial Open five-pin bowling championships in Sudbury. Jeff Watts once again topped the 19-bowler men’s field, finishing the 20-game zone roll-offs held Saturday and Sunday in Dryden with a 5,262 total (262 average). […]
Jamie Mountain The new year has brought with it some new opportunities for the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club. It applied for a grant through the Ontario Trillium Foundation, which recently was approved. “The club is so grateful for this Ontario Trillium Foundation grant money,” club president JoAnne Formanek Gustafson […]
Staff Legion Br. #29 here will host a mixed team darts tournament in honour of Arlan Scott this Saturday (Feb. 2). Register by 1 p.m. and play will begin once organized. The focus of the tournament is fun and to encourage players of all levels–even those who have not ever […]
Staff The Fort Frances Age Friendly Committee is hoping to create drop-off areas in downtown Fort Frances where older adults can be dropped off and picked up safely. Following up on its 2017-2020 action plan, the committee has reviewed the issue and is recommending to town council that two drop-off […]
Staff Bus issues for both teams forced the postponement of the Lakers’ home-and-home series against the Dryden GM Ice Dogs that had been scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights. Make-up dates for each will be announced by the SIJHL once they are finalized. The fifth-place Lakers (12-21-1-1) resume action tomorrow […]
Staff It was another interesting and intense night in Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League action Tuesday at Fort High as some games had lots of drama while the other had almost none. The first game of the night saw the Muskies taking on Arctic Cat. This game was pretty low-key […]
Staff Alec Severson’s goal with three-and-a-half minutes to go in the second period proved to be the game-winner as the Thief River Falls Norskies edged the visiting Fort Frances Lakers 2-1 last night. The third-place Norskies (20-12-3-1) opened the scoring just under eight minutes into the first when Bryce Johnson […]
Jamie Mountain After a tough 71-70 loss to the host Kenora Broncos in their NorWOSSA regular season-opener back on Dec. 4, the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team has been stellar in rattling off six-straight win to clinch top spot in the three-team standings. After a pair of victories over the […]
Jamie Mountain The Muskie junior boys’ basketball team has faced a steady learning curve all season and will continue to face opportunities to get better. After splitting a pair of games last week against the visiting Dryden Eagles and Kenora Broncos that dropped their NorWOSSA record to 2-5, the black-and-gold […]
