Jamie Mountain It was a dominant weekend for the Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team as they won the Kenora Invitational “Winter Blast” tournament without dropping a single set. The squad went 10-0 in round-robin play, defeating the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora), Kenora Broncos, Westgate Tigers (Thunder Bay), St. Ignatius […]
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Staff How I Set Your Mother garnered the maximum six points in Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action last night. The Volley Llamas, Take A Hit, No Diggity, and Kiss My Pass all took five points. Gillons’ nabbed four points while Scared Hitless took three. Bump It Up managed to […]
Jamie Mountain A monster performance by senior Muskie Kobi Ward highlighted Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League action Tuesday night at the Fort High gym. In an intense–and at times testy–game, Ward scored 31 points to lead the Muskies to a 74-56 victory over the BDO Ballerz. The black-and-gold jumped out […]
Staff All four Muskie court sports teams will be in action this weekend. The junior and senior girls’ volleyball teams headed to Kenora for an exhibition tournament that begins today and wraps up tomorrow. The junior and senior boys’ basketball teams, meanwhile, will participate in the annual Falcon Invitational tournament […]
Jamie Mountain New year, same Muskie dominance. Both the girls’ and boys’ hockey teams took care of business yesterday–earning shutout victories over the Dryden Eagles in NorWOSSA action at “The Duke” (Couchiching Arena). Annalise (CC) Hayes scored the game-winning goal with just over 10 minutes to go to lead the […]
Jamie Mountain It was a long time coming for the Fort Frances Lakers. Exactly two months to the day of their last triumph, a 5-3 decision over the Minnesota Iron Rangers back on Nov. 10, the Lakers finally tasted victory again last night with a 5-3 win over the host […]
Robin McCormickDevlin correspondent Congratulations to the Dylan Johnston rink that has qualified for the Northern Ontario provincial playdowns which start Feb. 7 in Little Current. The rink features former district curlers Mike Badiuk at third and Travis Showalter at lead, along with Cody Johnston (second) and Chris Baird (fifth). The […]
Jamie Mountain Losing is hard. That’s especially true when you’re a hockey team that hasn’t won in a game in nearly two months, as is currently the case with the Fort Frances Lakers, who head into tonight’s game against the host Thunder Bay North Stars mired in a 13-game losing […]
Jamie Mountain It probably wasn’t the ending they had envisioned. But after topping Pool ‘B’ with two wins and a tie, you can forgive the Fort Frances Wu Warriors for feeling a little confident Sunday heading into the gold-medal final of the Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association’s annual Bantam ‘A’ […]
One of the biggest influences of my career, and what I enjoy the most, is the inspiration and interaction of people. To put it simply, we all have taste buds and eat food every day, so we have a common denominator; we can connect and relate. For me, however, it […]
From the MNRF Three men have been fined a total of $1,500 for leaving litter behind at their moose hunting camp. Kevin Gibbons of Woodlawn, Jody Watts of Nepean, and William Vyse of Ottawa all pleaded guilty and each were fined $500 for depositing litter in a provincial park. Court […]
Jamie Mountain If Borderland Snowmobile Club president John Homer had his way, all the area trails would be open by now. But that’s not the case so far this season, mainly due to a lack of volunteer help. Homer stressed volunteers are needed to ensure more trails across the district […]
