Staff Molly Carlson’s last recognition of her freshman diving season for the Florida State Seminoles was among her best. The Fort Frances native was one of two individual recipients, along with junior Natalie Pierce from the Seminoles’ women’s swimming and diving team, of a “Golden Nole” Award at a special […]
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Press Release Weddings are joyous occasions but planning one is not always simple. Among the endless to-do lists and countless decisions to be made, you also need to make sure your paperwork is in order and that the person you’ve asked to perform your marriage ceremony is authorized to perform […]
Joey Payeur The young and the limitless. It’s an appropriate description of the Muskie track-and-field team after it tasted action for the first time last Thursday at the Bronco Booster Track & Field Invite varsity meet at Falls High School. More than three-quarters of the squad this season are Grade […]
Press Release Fort Frances High School students in Robert Guertin’s Grade 11 and 12 Manufacturing classes, and Christine Jean’s Kinesiology class, recently learned about high-tech innovations while taking part in a knee replacement demonstration. “The purpose of the session is to connect our students to the work world, and not […]
Staff Bowlers representing Sunset Country earned medals at the 2017 Open provincial championships held April 12-15 in Dryden. Jeff Watts of Fort Frances earned the fifth and final berth in the men’s singles competition after averaging 268.3 over the 10-game preliminary roll-offs held Wednesday afternoon. Watts then won his first […]
Joey Payeur The Muskies and Rainy River Owls each have multiple representatives at the NWOSSAA badminton championships today in Wawa after finishing in the top two at the NorWOSSA finals last Wednesday in Kenora. And if any of them can repeat that placement today, it’s off to the OFSAA on […]
From the MNRF Eight men from Northwestern Ontario have been fined a total of $9,200 for moose-hunting offences. Dennis Chevalier, of Kenora, pleaded guilty and was fined $5,000 for hunting moose without a licence. Joe Chevalier, Lee Blyth, Jason Canfield, Brad Greer, Dean Laewetz, and Lorne Redden, all of Kenora, […]
Staff They were two of the three best teams all season and now they will settle the issue of who is really the best one-on-one. Defending league champion How I Set Your Mother, the top squad during the regular season this year, will lock horns with third-ranked Kiss My Pass […]
Staff The team results, as a whole, didn’t have them near the top of the charts. But plenty of individual members of the Muskie track-and-field squad established themselves as credible contenders at the season-opening Bronco Booster Track & Field Invite varsity meet Thursday at Falls High School. The black-and-gold girls’ […]
Conrad DueckSubmitted by When the Fort Frances Men’s Basketball season began back on November first, the goal was to come out, play some good basketball, get a workout, and have fun. As the season progressed and standings came out, eyes started to shift to what playoff match-ups could look like. […]
Staff A Fort Frances team, comprised of players from the local Borderland Soccer League, walked away with the Super 8 Super Cup tournament championship on Saturday in Kenora. The local squad struggled mightily at last year’s tourney but rolled to victory this time around. • • • Two Fort Frances […]
Staff The Northwestern Ontario Norskies were the lowest-ranked team in their division but still stared the biggest dog in the yard in the face and nearly got away without being bitten. Facing the top-ranked Kingston Volleyball Club, the 28th-seeded Norskies went tooth-and-nail before finally falling 2-1 (25-22, 22-25, and 15-13) […]
