Press Release The SIJHL announced last week that it will be hosting an all-star game on Wednesday, Nov. 29 at the Hippodrome in Eveleth, Mn. Featuring a “Border Battle” format, the contest will see Canadian all-stars taking on the American all-stars, with the game being played in the same town […]
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Staff One game to rule them all. That’s the scenario to decide this year’s champion of the Rainy River District Fastball League after the Fort Frances Braves and Barwick Blue Knights split the first two games of the best-of-three championship series at Couchiching. The Braves took the opener 7-2 on […]
Joey Payeur Local organizers of this year’s Terry Fox Run in Fort Frances are going retro to try and generate new levels of support. The annual event to raise money for cancer research, slated for Sunday, Sept. 17, will mark its 25th anniversary of being held here. Last year’s event […]
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 […]
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 […]
