Summer reporterStephanie Hagenaars The seventh-annual International Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Festival will hit the water here on Saturday, June 30–but with a twist this year. Unlike previous years, the boats will be launched from both Fort Frances and International Falls. Each side also will stage their own festival, with the […]
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Jamie Mountain The NorWOSSA boys’ soccer landscape has been painted black-and-gold for the better part of the last decade. A 2-0 win over the visiting Kenora Broncos last Wednesday afternoon gave the Muskies their eighth-straight league title and yet another trip to the all-Ontarios that kick off tomorrow and run […]
Staff Fort Frances resident Jeff Watts fell short in his bid to win a medal at the Canadian Open championships held last week in Gatineau, Que. Representing Northern Ontario in the men’s singles competition, the Sunset Country bowler missed advancing to Saturday’s “stepladder” playoff round by a mere 55 pins […]
Jamie Mountain The better part of the Muskie track-and-field team is young with not much experience, but they’ve proven their skill time and time again this season. But perhaps their most impressive accomplishment came last week at the NWOSSAA championships in Thunder Bay, where the junior athletes claimed their first-ever […]
Staff It’s early in the Borderland Soccer League season but it would appear Manitou Forest Products is the team to beat in the men’s division. A 1-0 win over Centra Pipelines (0-2) on Monday night improved their league-best record to 2-0. After a back-and-forth first half in which both teams […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers have announced that captain Julian Uhryniuk has committed to play for the Trinity Western University Spartans next season. The Langley, B.C.-based program is coming off a BCIHL championship this past year. Uhryniuk will join defenceman Dustin Deugau, a fellow Lakers’ alumnus and his roommate from […]
Staff Laurie Nuttall and Bonnie Hughes of Fort Frances were among the $40 winners in the Alzheimer Society of Kenora/Rainy River Districts’ cash calendar draw for June. Other district winners included Ronald Ogier (Devlin) and Chris and Pam Edwards (Nestor Falls). Also winning $40 were Carol Markham, Jackie Dufault, Don […]
Jamie Mountain They gave a valiant effort all season but it just wasn’t to be in the end. A 2-1 loss to the reigning NorWOSSA champion Dryden Eagles in last Wednesday’s league final here put the wraps on the 2018 season for the Muskie girls’ soccer team. As one that […]
Staff Local runner Priscilla Miller aced her age division at the annual June Classic 5K in Thunder Bay over the weekend. Of the 43 female racers, Miller finished second overall, clocking in at 19:33:60 in the chip-timed event. Miller averaged 6:18 per mile while passing most of the men who […]
Staff The Fort Frances Mud Dogs pushed their winning streak to five games with an 18-3 rout of the Manitou T-Birdies in Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League action Monday night. Shelby Tymkin smacked a homer to pace the offence. Rachelle Yeo earned the pitching win while Summer Leonard suffered […]
Staff The Dawson Tigers ran their record to 4-0 following a 20-5 thrashing of the Manitou Thunderbirds in Rainy River District Men’s Fastball League action Thursday night. Carl Big George Jr. earned the pitching win while Charlie Debungee was saddled with the loss. Morgan Desserre had the lone homer in […]
From the OPP On June 3 around 11:20 a.m., officers from the Thunder Bay OPP responded to a report of a missing male. The male had ventured out on a Sea-Doo personal watercraft on Dog Lake and had not returned. Officers from the North West Region Emergency Response Team, Thunder […]
