Joey Payeur It wasn’t the preferred path into the quarter-finals but the Muskie girls’ hockey team will take it. The 11th-seeded Muskies lost 6-0 to the top-ranked and two-time defending champion St. Michael Warriors this morning in their final Pool ‘A’ game at the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ championship in Stratford. But […]
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Staff Lisa Penner and her Northern Ontario rink need to take their rock-throwing skills to the next level immediately. Skip Peggy Taylor’s Kenora-based team, featuring Penner at third, were in a three-way tie for second place in the championship pool entering play today at the 2017 Everest senior women’s curling […]
Staff After winning a mother of a tie-breaker, Hailey Beaudry of Fort Frances and Erin Tomalty from Nestor Falls almost became children of destiny. The two former Muskie curlers, playing skip and lead, respectively, for the Lakehead University Thunderwolves, wound up with the silver medal following a 7-4 loss to […]
Staff It may be all over but the crying for the Muskie boys’ hockey team. Power-play goals by Matthew Mines in the second period and Saul Van Der Zalm in the third lifted the seventh-ranked Holy Cross Raiders (St. Catharines) to a 2-0 victory this morning over top-seeded and defending […]
Nicholas Donaldson The Fort Frances Sportsmen’s Club held its annual general meeting Monday night at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre, which drew about 30 members and guests. Henry Miller gave the Zone ‘A’ report and also updated everyone on the elk herd reintroduction project in Northwestern Ontario. The […]
Staff Montana Plasky and Greta Fedoruk got airborne in Port Colborne against some of the best skaters in their age group in the province. The two Border Skating Club members took part in the 2017 Skate Ontario Championships there last week, with varying degrees of success. Plasky battled to sixth […]
Joey Payeur A snub before the semi-finals fired up an already ambitious group of Canadians to the point where they left the rest of the tournament field red, white, and very blue. The Lakehead Thunderwolves, including Fort Frances resident Katie Sinclair, restored national pride–and made history–in defeating the North Dakota […]
Joey Payeur Grace Petsnick wasn’t going to the West Edmonton Mall just for the shopping, but she came home with some most impressive jewellery nonetheless. One of four Borderland Judo Club members competing at the Edmonton International Judo Championships from March 7-9, Petsnick went 4-for-4 in her bouts to claim […]
Joey Payeur It doesn’t take Kate Forget long to respond to the query of what she’ll miss most now that her three-year stint as head coach of the Rainy River Figure Skating Club likely has come to an end. “My fondest memory? Just the skaters,” the Ingersoll native and current […]
Press Release The new “Guide to Eating Ontario Fish” has been published and provides easy-to-use information about the types and amounts of fish that are safe to eat from more than 2,400 fishing locations across Ontario. While fish can be an important part of a balanced diet, they also can […]
Joey Payeur Wayne Strachan can hear the nay-sayers loud and clear. Now it’s up to his troops to silence them. The head coach and general manager of the three-time defending SIJHL champion Fort Frances Lakers knows his team isn’t exactly the betting favourite in its best-of-five first-round “Survivor Series” playoff […]
From the MNRF An Ignace man has been fined a total of $5,000 for an illegal moose hunt. Roy Parker pleaded guilty and was fined $3,500 for hunting a cow moose without the proper licence and $1,500 for trespassing for the purpose of hunting. Parker also was issued a one-year […]
