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 […]
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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 […]
Staff Sarah Glover wasn’t going to stop running until someone told her to. It turned out nobody did. Glover scored the game-winning run on the most unexpected of throwing errors to cap a six-run comeback and give the Fort Frances Mud Dogs a 13-12 win over the Sabaskong Tebinaak in […]
Staff Game on. The post-season began in earnest last night in the Rainy River District Fastball League with three games each in both the East and West Divisions. With the Fort Frances Braves getting the top seed and a bye in the East after finishing with a league-best 18-1 record, […]
Staff Brody Strachan was feeling a little claustrophobic so he put some breathing room between himself and Jeff Davis. Strachan nabbed his second WISSOTA Modifieds feature win of the season Saturday night as the Emo driver extended his lead over Davis in the standings in Borderland Racing Association action at […]
Joey Payeur With their energy and spirit, the youngest members of the Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Club will be firing on all cylinders before too long. Club member Sydney Chalifoux has taken the initiative–and the reins–in creating the group’s first program geared exclusively towards youths this season. “I got the […]
