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 […]
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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 […]
Staff Tyson Morrisseau is heading back to the all-Ontarios. The Muskie golfer carded a 79 on Friday at the NWOSSAA finals in Geraldton to place second overall in the individual competition behind only Jacob Lugli of the Dryden Eagles. Both earned berths at the OFSAA championships Oct. 11-13 in Port […]
Staff There were plenty of comebacks but no wins to show for all the hard work. The Fort Frances Lakers nabbed their first point of the regular season but remain winless after dropping a pair of weekend games to the visiting Thunder Bay North Stars. The North Stars held on […]
Staff They’re ba-ack. Defending champion How I Set Your Mother nabbed the maximum six points for the first time this season in Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action last night at Fort High and St. Michael’s School. The squad now has 14 points in all, which puts them into a […]
Jeff Gustafson This past weekend was a busy one across Sunset Country for anglers competing in fishing tournaments as four were taking place. LaBelle’s Birch Point Camp on Rainy Lake hosted a one-day bass tournament on Saturday, and there was a two-day musky tournament in Nestor Falls, a two-day bass […]
Staff Big ‘D’ was a big downer for the Muskie court teams. Fort High left Dryden with just one win in four matches against the host Eagles in its second NorWOSSA outing of the season Tuesday. That sole triumph belonged to the junior girls’ basketball squad, which went from a […]
Submitted Scott Dingwall and Jay Samsal displayed part of their winning catch over the weekend at Shoal Lake.
Joey Payeur Trevor Pereverzoff (8) of the English River Miners fired away at Fort Frances Lakers’ goalie Ryan Wagner in the second period of the visitors’ 5-2 victory in SIJHL action Tuesday night at the Ice For Kids Arena.
Joey Payeur Most nights last season, the post-game scene in the Fort Frances Lakers’ home dressing room was one of loud music and merriment. So far this year, the pulsing beats and hearty laughter have been non-existent. Rather, it was the English Miners raising the roof here Tuesday night after […]
Joey Payeur Jonny Lundon was less a golf coach and more a NASCAR crew chief. But his team went ahead and made history without him, anyway. The Muskie boys’ golf team bagged its first-ever NorWOSSA title by winning the final league tournament of the season last Wednesday at Beauty Bay […]
