Staff For only his first year of motorcross racing, Trevor Croswell is finishing first on an above-average basis. The Emo resident captured top spot in the MX3 Beginner division during the fourth stop in this year’s Superior Dirt Riders Northern Ontario season Saturday in Kakabeka Falls. Croswell also nabbed sixth […]
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Staff They keep falling and can’t seem to get up. These are difficult times for the top team in the Borderland Soccer League’s men’s division as Centra Pipelines has followed its 5-0 start with a third-straight loss. This time it was a 3-1 setback to CJ Contracting on Monday evening. […]
Press Release The Northern Policy Institute is pleased to announce this year’s “State of the North” conference will take place Sept. 27-28 in Timmins. “State of the North” is an annual conference that brings together members of the general public, decision-makers, community leaders, experts, and innovators to explore the state […]
Staff Stacy Patey has been warning her team all season not to take anyone for granted. Her teammates had the point illustrated in technicolour Monday night. The Fort Frances Her-icanes got all they could handle–and nearly more–from the upstart Fort Frances Angels, who fell just short of a stunning upset […]
Joey Payeur The thought of being three-time second-place finishers did not appeal in the slightest to the New Gold Nuggets. Instead, it was the Nuggets who were pure gold in defeating the defending champion Kemira Paper Dragons in the championship final of the sixth-annual International Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Festival […]
Staff It was a pitching experiment that almost blew up in the faces of the Fort Frances Braves. A last-inning rally by the Northwest Bay Chieftains turned a laugher into a nail-biter as the Braves hung on for a 15-11 victory in Rainy River District Fastball League action last Thursday […]
Staff Donovan Cousineau and Dave Chambers may have missed their calling as investment bankers. Anyone that can turn $22 into $5,000 has a firm handle on how to make a profit. The Fort Frances team topped the 52-team field at the annual “Castin’ for Cash” tournament, hosted by Lake Despair […]
Robin McCormickDevlin correspondent The Devlin slo-pitch league will hold its annual Gus Lindberg/Kingsley Downs Memorial Tournament tomorrow through Sunday (July 13-16) at the Devlin Ball Diamond. There will be plenty of auction on the diamond, as well as a full canteen and beer gardens. Come out and enjoy the action! […]
Staff Two out of three ain’t bad, but three out of four is even better. The Fort Frances Voyageurs U11 boys’ soccer team posted a 3-1 record at an exhibition showcase in Thunder Bay over the weekend, winning their last three games. The locals opened with a 5-3 loss to […]
Joey Payeur Three days is how long the tournament lasts. But the amount of time for the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship organizing committee to get everything in order on an annual basis is much larger than that. That being said, Greg Gustafson, the FFCBC’s director of angler registration and […]
Staff Sometimes, the most significant parts of life can pass by without truly appreciating what they mean at the time. Local stock car fans therefore should make the effort to savour every moment of what is turning out to be quite possibly the greatest single-season performance in Borderland Racing Association […]
Staff A Fort Frances teen will look to further his hockey dream–with the whole country able to tune in for the outcome. Former Muskie Ethan Jourdain will be in Winnipeg starting this weekend as one of 30 aboriginal youths aged 16-18 to participate in an NHL-style training camp as part […]
