Staff Good thing Al Christiansen doesn’t smoke so that he won’t miss all the cigars he didn’t receive for coming close twice. The Fort Frances resident pulled down a pair of second-place finishes at a tennis tournament this past weekend held as part of Sioux Lookout’s Blueberry Festival. In the […]
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Staff Pharmasave held the shoreline for as long as it could. But the Centra Pipelines waves eventually washed over them. Jeff Hyatt scored twice as Centra lived up to its regular-season championship hype with a 4-0 shutout of fourth-place Pharmasave in the first match of the two-leg semifinals in the […]
Staff The first half was about as good as La Place Rendez-Vous/Taggs could have hoped for. It was the second they could have done without, for it almost wiped away all their previous good work. An 8-2 first-half lead nearly evaporated completely in the face of a post-halftime charge by […]
Staff By the high standards of the Sight & Sound Wolves, it wasn’t a stellar regular season. But they’re used to bringing their best when the real shooting starts. John Desaulniers pitched a complete-game victory and the No. 3-ranked Wolves made their next step towards defending their championship with a […]
Staff Jamie Davis was back, but his competition can be forgiven if they got all choked up about it for different reasons than normally attached to a homecoming. The Devlin native and Fort Frances resident won his division-leading sixth feature race of the season in the WISSOTA Modifieds class after […]
Joey Payeur Being away from home for an extended period for the first time and the mountain of commitments attached to being a university freshman was enough to detour Claire Hyatt’s soccer-playing desires. Her improved confidence level in regards to handling post-secondary life and her unquenchable flame to push herself […]
Joey Payeur Glenn Witherspoon isn’t trying to put on any brave face–he’s just trying to be realistic about the speech he has to make this weekend. “Hopefully I can hold it together,” said the former mayor of Fort Frances from 1991-2003, who will join his late father, Jim Witherspoon, in […]
From the MNRF A Red Lake man has been fined $4,500 for hunting at night. Kenneth Burgess was found guilty at trial and fined $4,500 for unlawfully hunting at night. He also received a two-year hunting suspension. Court heard that on Dec. 3, 2015, conservation officers were patrolling Highway 105, […]
Staff It was an equine extravaganza in Emo over the weekend. The Borderland Quarter Horse Association held its annual show at the Rainy River Valley Agricultural Society fairgrounds, with numerous riders hailing from as far away as Manitoba and places in Minnesota and North Dakota taking part. Below is the […]
Staff That’s how to get the party started. Team Ontario’s 18U women’s volleyball team, with Fort Frances resident Amy Wilson-Hands serving as an apprentice coach, began its march at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg yesterday with a pair of convincing sweeps. In its opener, Ontario rolled over the Northwest […]
Staff With the roof threatening to cave in on her and her team, Mykenzie Borger strolled off the mound and looked her shortstop in the eye. “She said to me, ‘I’ve got this,’” grinned Erin Oltsher, who watched the teen right-hander become a young woman of her word. Borger put […]
Joey Payeur There’s no rest for the weary, they say, but Amy Wilson-Hands is too pumped with excitement to be fatigued. Fresh off of coaching Ontario’s 16U girls’ volleyball team at the North American Indigenous Games from July 16-23 in Toronto, the Fort Frances resident now is headed to Winnipeg […]
