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 […]
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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 […]
Staff Death, taxes, and the Muskie boys’ soccer team winning the championship. Those seemingly are the only certainties in life. The Muskies netted a pair of goals in the second half as they nabbed their eighth-straight league title with a 2-0 shutout of the visiting Kenora Broncos in the NorWOSSA […]
Staff The Muskie track-and-field team claimed its first-ever junior title at the NWOSSAA championships that ran Tuesday and Wednesday in Thunder Bay. Eleven different Muskies also qualified for the all-Ontarios set for June 7-9 in Toronto, the most Fort High has ever sent. Tori Toriseva won the junior girls’ 300m […]
Staff The Rainy River District Fastball League season is now in full swing although Mother Nature had other ideas on Thursday night. All but one of the night’s six games were postponed due to inclement weather. The lone contest that was played saw Windy’s Warriors eke out an 8-7 win […]
Jamie Mountain At the beginning of the season, Rainy River Owls girls’ soccer team head coach Rebecca Tolen believed it would be a rebuilding year for her squad. She was happy to be proven wrong on that assumption. After finishing the regular season in second place with a 4-1-1 record, […]
