Staff After not having done so for almost a decade, the SIJHL once again will pit its best players against each other. And this time, a border battle element will be attached. The league yesterday announced it will hold its fifth-ever all-star game–but first since 2008–on Wednesday, Nov. 29 in […]
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Joey Payeur Some well-known faces from hockey’s past will take to the ice here this fall on what promises to be a full day of activities and excitement. The “Slap Shots & Boot Stompin’ Tour,” put on by Legends All-Stars Hockey Events, makes it way to Fort Frances on Thursday, […]
Joey Payeur Laurie Pentney wanted to pay tribute to her late husband by taking the fight to the disease that robbed her of him. She found she had a legion of supporters willing to take up the cause with her, and hopes to have even more join the battle this […]
Staff For a sixth year, Tess Coish of Tess’ Kitchen here is opening her home to cyclists making the cross-Canada Sears National Kids Cancer Ride. But as something new this year, Coish wants to raise some money for their cause by offering a perogies and meatballs take-out dinner next week. […]
Press Release Local musicians Seth Lauzon and Piper Lidkea entered this year’s “Casting Call” just for fun. “We weren’t expecting to win anything,” Lidkea said of the singing contest, which was held Thursday night at Smokey Bear Park in conjunction with the annual International Falls Bass Championship. “We just wanted […]
Joey Payeur Having players move to a community without having anywhere for them to live is far from ideal. It also doesn’t send the message Fort Frances Lakers’ executives were hoping to get from the community. The pressure is on for local residents to step up to be billets for […]
Falls JournalInternationalWhitney JacksonEmily Gedde and Three hours before having to check in at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Scott Dingwall and Jeff Gustafson stopped fishing because they figured they had enough fish to win the 2017 International Falls Bass Championship. And they did. The team from Keewatin, Ont. and Kenora, Ont. […]
Staff The ball sailed through the fading remnants of daylight and over the left-field fence, taking with it the last hopes of the Dawson Tigers. Brett Mann’s three-run homer in the top of the seventh was the final nail in the coffin for the Tigers, who went from regular-season kingpins […]
Joey Payeur Come next spring, Marissa Kerry gladly will take advice from Shelby Nosan about mastering the mound. Last Wednesday, though, it was the new coach getting one-upped by her future player. In an all-Minnesota matchup on the rubber, International Falls resident Kerry got the better of Baudette’s Nosan as […]
Joey Payeur For the last three years, the Fort Frances Lakers have entered training camp as the hunted. Now they are the hunter gunning for those who would aim to block their return to the head of the SIJHL class. The Lakers went from three-time defending league champs to fifth-place […]
Staff It just kept raining but they just kept pushing on, choosing to laugh at the conditions than languish in them. The International Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Club battled through torrential downpours at times to capture a hard-fought silver medal in the Competitive Final at the Lake Superior Dragon Boat […]
Staff It looked for much of the day as though it would be a repeat of last year. As it turned out, it was–but for two division winners, not the weather gods. The Borderland Racing Association managed to avoid losing its regular-season finale at the Emo Speedway for the second-straight […]
