Lucas Punkari After falling one game short a year ago, Judy LaBelle is hoping to use a little home-ice advantage at this year’s senior provincial women’s playdowns, which get underway tomorrow at the Fort Frances Curling Club. LaBelle’s rink made it to the final last year in Blind River, where […]
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Lucas Punkari With the Wisconsin Wilderness having locked up the top seed for the SIJHL post-season, the rest of the five-team loop still is jostling for the other playoff spots. And the Fort Frances Lakers, currently in second place with 69 points, are in the thick of things. The Lakers […]
Staff Donovan Taylor made history at the Speedo Eastern National Championships in London, Ont. over the weekend, becoming the first local swimmer to earn a national medal. The Fort Frances Aquanaut captured gold in the 200m I.M. event in the 16-and-under age division on Sunday with a time of 2:05.87, […]
Staff After being postponed Friday due to poor travelling conditions, the NorWOSSA playoffs got underway this morning in Kenora, with all four Muskie teams vying for gold. Both Muskie girls’ volleyball teams were involved in semi-final action this morning, with the junior girls facing the host Broncos at 10 a.m. […]
Staff The top two teams in the local men’s basketball league squared off on Wednesday night at Fort High, with Taggs edging out Boston Pizza by a score of 64-59. Jacob Mackintosh led the way for Taggs, who moved into a tie with Boston Pizza for the league lead with […]
Staff The Fort Frances Muskies boys basketball and girls volleyball teams will have to wait a little while longer to battle it out for NorWOSSA court supremacy, as today’s scheduled “AA” championship games in Kenora were postponed due to poor weather conditions. According to a statement posted on the Beaver […]
Lucas Punkari In a game that both sides called their biggest of the season up to this point, the Fort Frances Lakers made a huge statement towards trying to lock up the second overall seed for the SIJHL playoffs last night and defeated the Thunder Bay North Stars by a […]
Lucas Punkari The race for second place in the SIJHL standings got even more tight yesterday evening, as the Fort Frances Lakers were edged out on the road by a score of 4-3 to the Dryden Ice Dogs. With the loss, the Lakers are now only three points ahead of […]
Lucas Punkari For the second time in a span of a week, and for the third time this season, the Fort Frances Muskies were knocked off by the Kenora Broncos in NorWOSSA boys hockey action on Tuesday night at the Ice for Kids Arena here, with their latest setback coming […]
Staff The Fort Frances Curling Club will be hosting their annual ladies’s bonspiel this weekend, with action getting underway on Friday with two draws at 5:30 and 7:45 p.m. This year’s field, which stood at 22 teams earlier this week although club manager Rick Grenda was hoping to add a […]
the MNR An Ontario resident has been fined for shooting at a deer from a roadway. Donna Parise of Terrace Bay pleaded guilty to shooting from a roadway and was fined $1,000. Court heard that on Oct. 23, conservation officers received a call that a high-powered rifle had been discharged […]
VNP The weather gets brutally cold here this time of year. How do the animals survive without houses, heaters, and coats? Join ranger naturalist Megan Wilkins to learn how some of our wild neighbours make it through the winter. You may be surprised how similar they are to us after […]
