Staff Jordan Larson will get one more shot at a storybook ending. The Fort Frances native and the rest of the Carleton Place Canadians will head to Lloydminster, Alta./Sask. later this week after qualifying for the RBC Cup by capturing the Eastern Canadian regional title yesterday in Woodstock, N.B. Larson, […]
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SubmittedBetty Grynol Submitted by Betty Grynol Local Grand Knight Dino Morelli is pleased to have his Council #2766 support the local Special Olympics participants. Two local Olympians—Gerald Carrier and Ray Bedard—will be travelling to Guelph, Ont. for the provincial games May 26-29. They will be competing in five-pin bowling. In […]
Staff Aaron Bujold can’t afford any more mistakes—and played like it earlier today. The Muskies’ lone representative at the OFSAA badminton championships in North Bay eliminated Aaron Trowhill of the Woodstock Red Devils in the first round of ‘C’ Flight action this morning. Bujold then took on Augusta Li of […]
Staff Jordan Larson and the Carleton Place Canadians control their own destiny. The CCHL champion Canadians are tied for first with QJHL champion College Francais de Longeuil after Day 2 of the Fred Page Cup Eastern Canada Junior ‘A’ hockey championship in Woodstock, N.B. It comes down to a battle […]
Staff The story of the first two days of the Dudley Hewitt Cup was lots of offence and not much defence from the Fort Frances Lakers. They flipped the script in their final outing—but couldn’t change the outcome. The Lakers’ potent offence dried up in a 3-0 loss to the […]
Press Release The dragon boats will be hitting the water, and kick-starting a busy summer season for the local club, this Sunday (May 8) at 10 a.m. This not only will mark the start of the International Boundary Waters Dragon Boat team boating season, but also community practices, its youth […]
Staff Father-son runners Lorne and Rick Ricard hit the streets at the Winnipeg Police Service half-marathon on Sunday. The elder Ricard showed he still can run at a solid pace—clocking in at 1:36.38 over the 21-km course to place second in the male age 60-65 category. He was 73rd overall […]
Staff Ryan Faragher is back in the AHL after being called up by the San Diego Gulls late last Friday. The 23-year-old Fort Frances-based goalie had just finished getting shelled for three goals on six shots before being pulled just 3:23 into Game 1 of the Utah Grizzlies’ 6-4 loss […]
Staff Once they shook off the rust, it was all systems go. The Muskie girls’ and boys’ soccer teams opened the NorWOSSA regular season here yesterday with a pair of wins apiece achieved in similar fashion. The girls needed a goal in the 70th minute from Maggie Jean to edge […]
Staff Aaron Bujold will rejoin his Muskie boys’ soccer teammates next week. He has a little “birdie” business to attend to first. Bujold opened play this morning in the senior boys’ singles division at the OFSAA badminton championships in North Bay. After an opening-round bye in the 40-player field, Bujold […]
Staff When the cards were on the table, Brayton Levesque came up aces. The Fort Frances goalie backstopped the Windigo Ice Hawks to a 5-4 victory over the Nipigon Caribou in a shootout to capture first place in the Atom division of the 28th-annual All-Native Goodwill Hockey Tournament in Thunder […]
Staff Third periods in the Dudley Hewitt Cup this week resembled sulfuric acid to the Fort Frances Lakers. They were burned badly in both of the ones they played and now their hopes at making it to the national stage have been dashed—courtesy once again of the Soo Thunderbirds. Zach […]
