Jamie Mountain The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team got off to a great start last Thursday afternoon in their NorWOSSA regular-season opener against the visiting Dryden Eagles. The offence was clicking and the defence was holding firm as the black-and-gold built a 17-0 lead about midway through the second quarter. […]

Jamie Mountain It’s been a tale of two different seasons so far for the Muskie junior and senior boys’ volleyball teams. The juniors have roared out of the gate, winning their NorWOSSA season-opener 3-2 (25-15, 20-25, 25-19, 22-25, and 15-12) against the visiting Dryden Eagles last Thursday afternoon before claiming […]

Staff It was a week of mixed results for former Muskie Chelsea Kabatay and the rest of the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs women’s volleyball team. The squad split its four games, winning both matches last Wednesday before dropping both on Saturday. RRCC (4-6) started with a sweep of Gogebic […]

Jamie Mountain The day really could not have gone any better for a number of athletes on the Muskie cross-country team at the SSSAA Time Trials last Wednesday at the Kamview Ski Trails in Thunder Bay. In the first meet of the NorWOSSA season, the junior girls’ squad–comprised of Ashlyn […]

Staff You can’t say they’re not consistent. The Muskie golf team nabbed a second-straight fourth-place finish in the boys’ division at the second tournament of the NorWOSSA season Thursday at the Beauty Bay course in Kenora. The black-and-gold had two boys’ squads compete in Kenora, with the first totalling a […]

Staff It’s been quite the start to the season for the Muskie junior boys’ volleyball and girls’ basketball teams. The junior spikers claimed the title at the Kenora Invitational Tournament over the weekend, downing the Sioux North Warriors in Saturday’s final. The black-and-gold had opened tourney play Friday with a […]

Staff It seems the Muskie football team has some early-season momentum. A week after routing the host Tec Voc Hornets 42-0, the Muskies (2-1) had to dig down deep defensively in grinding out a 14-8 win over the previously undefeated Elmwood Giants (2-1) in their WHSFL home-opener Friday afternoon. After […]

Staff Talk about a picture perfect start. The Fort Frances Lakers (2-0-0-0) kicked off the SIJHL regular season in style with a pair of road wins over the weekend. Kirk Coppock scored in overtime Friday night to help Fort Frances pull out a 4-3 win over the two-time defending champion […]

Staff Dallas Mosbeck and Wayne Howard seem to have Crow Lake all figured out. Mosbeck, of Emo, and Howard, from Fort Frances, defended their Crow Lake Classic Bass Tournament title over the weekend in Nestor Falls with a two-day haul of 26.1 pounds. The duo led wire-to-wire in earning their […]

From the MNRF A Winnipeg man has been fined for a fishing violation. Stuart Fengler pleaded guilty and was fined $1,200 for possessing five walleye over his legal limit. Court heard that on July 12, conservation officers from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry conducted a fisheries inspection of […]

Jamie Mountain The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team showed they are going to be a force this season–even if their record at a tournament at Lakehead University over the weekend wasn’t quite what they wanted. Fort High went 1-2 at the tourney, showing exactly what they can bring in two […]

Here are the sunrise and sunset times for Sept. 20-26: •Sept. 20-6:58 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. •Sept. 21–6:59 a.m. and 7:13 p.m. •Sept. 22–7:01 a.m. and 7:10 p.m. •Sept. 23–7:02 a.m. and 7:08 p.m. •Sept. 24–7:04 a.m. and 7:06 p.m. •Sept. 25–7:05 a.m. and 7:04 p.m. •Sept. 26–7:07 a.m. and […]