The Lakers’ organization would like to announce that the 2010-11 season will be dedicated and played in honour of assistant coach Bob Mainville, who passed away unexpectedly in a boating mishap this summer. Fans will see the initials “BM” on the Lakers’ helmets and left shoulder of their jerseys. We […]
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Press Release This past Saturday (Sept. 11) featured the 15th anniversary of the Northshore Inline Marathon in Duluth. Just over 3,000 skaters took part in the combined full and half-marathon, with the route tracing the Grandma’s Marathon route. Wet, windy conditions cut time by five minutes for the pros and […]
Staff A perfect round helped Fort Frances Sportsmen’s Club member Brad Houghton capture the club’s annual skeet championship on Saturday. The competition went forward despite blustery conditions that wreaked havoc with the targets, making it difficult for the shooters to track down the orange “pigeons” in the sky. Thanks to […]
Staff A month after the Kitchen Creek Classic showed off the Arnold Palmers and Jack Nicklauses of the region, it’s time for an event for those whose game more closely resembles Happy Gilmore’s. The Frog Creek Open, designed for those with a minimum 16 handicap, will be held this Saturday […]
the MNR Grouse hunting season opened today across most of Northwestern Ontario. Ruffed grouse, spruce grouse, and sharp-tailed grouse are the most common upland game birds in the northwest. The daily limit for ruffed grouse and spruce grouse is a combined total of five. The possession limit is a combined […]
the MNR Two South Dakota men have been fined a total of $3,400 for offences related to an illegal bear hunt near Ignace John Gubbrud, of Alcester, pleaded guilty to illegally hunting a black bear and providing hunting services to a non-resident of Ontario without a licence. He was fined […]
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Local resident Luke Skaarup finished fourth at the Strongman Challenge in Dubreuilville over the weekend. The professional division, in which Skaarup competed, drew athletes from as far away as Memphis, Tenn., along with others from across Canada and the United States. The athletes competed in eight events over two days. […]
Dan Falloon They’re five nice wins that the Fort Frances Lakers would love to have in the proverbial SIJHL bank. Being five exhibition games, none of them will, of course. But the Lakers still are hoping that all that practice (their five games were more than any other SIJHL rival) […]
Dan Falloon The Muskie boys’ hockey team will have a decidedly different look this year, with numerous spots up for grabs as the squad hits the midway point of its training camp. The black-and-gold held a pair of tryout camps last week, and have two more slated for this week […]
Dan Falloon While the Muskie girls’ hockey team appears as though it’ll be business as usual up front, with several of their top scorers in camp, the back end is a different kettle of fish. With four defenders having graduated and one no longer in town, Melanie Scott is the […]
Dan Falloon Just as the name of the event—“Bordertown Shutdown”—suggested, Bordertown did get shut down at the inaugural roller derby bout here Saturday night. And in more ways than one. On the one hand, the negative one, the local “Kraft Milfs” dropped a 178-82 decision to the “Paper Milfs” of […]
Dan Falloon There’s a buzz around Nestor Falls in the World Fishing Network’s “Ultimate Fishing Town” contest. The local community sat in second place as of press time yesterday, nowgwithin 1,000 votes of leader Port Alberni, B.C. after surging past Dauphin, Man. over the weekend. Port Alberni was nearing 34,500 […]
