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 […]
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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 […]
Staff Three holdovers, two former members of the Kings, and a masked Muskie who is moving on. That summarizes the six Rainy River District players who made the roster of the Kenora Thistles for the coming season in the Manitoba Midget ‘AAA’ Hockey League. The returning veterans with local connections […]
Staff Plenty of pin action is about to return to Plaza Lanes here. The Fort Frances Bowling Club will kick off its 2017-18 season next week, with the Tuesday night league starting Sept. 5 and the Thursday night one on Sept. 7. Club president Mike Behan once again is inviting […]
Staff Joe Basaraba will need to get his mail forwarded several thousand miles to the southeast. The 25-year-old Fort Frances native was dealt to the Greenville (S.C.) Swamp Rabbits from the Idaho Steelheads in an ECHL transaction last week. Basaraba spent the last two seasons with the Steelheads, notching 46 […]
Staff It was good times for “Gussy” and his partner just across the border. Keewatin’s Jeff Gustafson and Scott Dingwall of Kenora routed the rest of the 60-team field at the 2017 International Falls Bass Championship over the weekend, winning by almost five pounds with a two-day catch of 43 […]
