Joey Payeur Tara Allaire had plenty to give thanks for this past weekend, but even moreso four years ago. The 27-year-old Emo resident, in her first competitive race at this distance, finished the 35th-annual Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Sunday in a time of 3:33.21 to make […]
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Joey Payeur Billy Gorn won’t forget his first official game as a Fort Frances Laker. Neither will his head coach and general manager going forward when it comes to solving his goaltending puzzle. Gorn turned aside 36 shots in his season debut to backstop the three-time defending SIJHL champs to […]
Staff The black-and-gold were left black and blue. The Muskie football team came up empty on offence for the second-straight game in a 37-0 loss to the Daniel McIntyre Maroons in WHSFL action Friday in Winnipeg. “Guys aren’t showing up to practice and guys don’t know what they’re doing on […]
Staff A sigh of relief could be heard throughout “Laker Nation” on Saturday. Jack Bernie had two goals and an assist, including the game-winner on the power play with 1:06 left in regulation time, as the Fort Frances Lakers earned their first win of the SIJHL regular season by doubling […]
Staff The Muskies dished out payback in a big way here yesterday. Nine days after losing three of four matches in Dryden, the black-and-gold swept all four versus the visiting Eagles in NorWOSSA play. The match of the day came in junior boys’ volleyball, where the third-place Muskies (1-3) notched […]
Staff With St. Michael’s School unavailable last night, a quartet of teams in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League also were left on the sidelines. Defending champion How I Set Your Mother, One Hit Wonders, Bump It Up, and Arm & Hammer will make up the two matches they missed […]
Staff The future is now for the Muskie cross-country running team. Fort High put four runners in the top 10 to easily capture the Grade 7-8 girls’ team title at the annual “Turkey Trot” yesterday in Dryden. Ashlyn Beck was the fastest of the Muskies in the 3K event, coming […]
Staff It took a fourth-quarter push to get the Muskie junior girls’ basketball squad over the hump in their previous game against the Kenora Broncos. This time, Gord McCabe’s crew decided to extinguish any notion of suspense. Fort High jumped out to a 20-7 lead after one quarter, then coasted […]
Staff It took a fourth-quarter push to get the Muskie junior girls’ basketball squad over the hump in their previous game against the Kenora Broncos. This time, Gord McCabe’s crew decided to extinguish any notion of suspense. Fort High jumped out to a 20-7 lead after one quarter, then coasted […]
Joey Payeur The Genie Bouchard and Milos Raonic wanna-bes here will have to hold their horses—and their serves—until the spring. Work continued this week on the multi-use tennis court facility being built on the fenceline separating Fort Frances High School and St. Francis School. But Jason Kabel, the town’s manager […]
Joey Payeur After 15 years away, Fort Frances will have a hand in the festivities for Canada’s annual on-air hockey celebration. It was announced yesterday that the Fort Frances Lakers will take on the English River Miners at the Kenora Recreation Centre on Feb. 18 as part of “Hockey Day […]
Joey Payeur Early last month, Tyson Morrisseau wasn’t even sure he wanted to take his clubs out of the bag in a competitive vein anymore. Now he’ll be packing that bag for a trip to the all-Ontario championships. Morrisseau is heading back to the OFSAA boys’ golf championship after earning […]
