Staff The Fort Frances Lakers and Sioux Lookout Flyers had nothing to play for, standings-wise, in their regular-season finale there Friday night. But each team still had some fairly concrete motivations heading into the game. The fifth-place Lakers (14-33-5) were looking to halt a four-game losing streak before the post-season […]
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Staff Judy LaBelle has gotten off to a perfect start at the senior women’s provincial playdowns in Blind River. LaBelle and her Fort Frances rink of third Mary Beth Tkachuk, second Maureen Thomson, and lead Trudy Badiuk downed Marion Clark (Port Arthur) 7-4 this morning to improve to 2-0. The […]
Dan Falloon Don’t tell the Muskie boys’ hockey team that they roundly defeated the Red Lake Rams by a combined score of 35-2 in their four meetings during the regular season. Rather, the black-and-gold (9-1-2) are taking a more cautious approach to their first-round opponent in the NorWOSSA playoffs, especially […]
Dan Falloon The Fort Frances Lakers opened their home-and-home series with the Dryden Ice Dogs with a little extra motivation to make off with a win. The second-place Ice Dogs (36-8-5) were the only team the Lakers (14-32-5) hadn’t beaten entering the final week of the regular season. But the […]
Dan Falloon It didn’t seem like the most promising way to break a three-game losing streak. But the Muskie girls’ hockey team gladly will take Tuesday night’s decisive 5-2 win over the first-place Dryden Eagles here as a momentum-builder entering the playoffs. “Our confidence is hopefully going to be a […]
Press Release This Sunday (Feb. 28), more than a dozen former NHL and Olympic hockey players, managers, and coaches will gather at the Thunderbird Lodge on Rainy Lake for the first-ever event of its kind in Minnesota. The Minnesota Hockey Legends “meet-and-greet” will begin at noon and is open to […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER—Canada’s Olympic team take note: the second man to walk on the moon says you don’t always need to be first to be successful. Buzz Aldrin, one of many celebrities who has come to Vancouver to take in the Olympics, says too much emphasis is placed on […]
Press Release A Winnipeg man was fined $3,250 for purchasing Ontario resident licences to hunt moose. Albert Taylor pleaded guilty to making a false statement in a document to obtain a licence and to hunting moose without a licence. Court heard that in September, 2007, Taylor moved from Ontario to […]
Press Release A Toronto man has been fined $3,500 for charges related to illegal deer hunting. Curzio Fabrizi was convicted under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act of two counts of unlawfully hunting deer and two counts of abandoning flesh suitable for human consumption. He was fined $2,000 and $1,500, […]
Staff Three Sunset Country Squash Club juniors made the trip to Winnipeg to compete in the Manitoba Junior Open. Anniss Seid, the U17 boys’ rep, won four of five matches to capture first place in the top competitive division. Anika Alexander, the U15 girls’ rep, had a solid tourney with […]
Staff Jodi Judd’s rink successfully defended its crown at the annual Fort Francees ladies’ bonspiel over the weekend. Judd downed Mary Beth Tkachuk 7-4 in Sunday’s final for her second-straight title. Judd’s road to the championship included wins over Kris Sinclair, Roz Broman, Sylvia Smeeth, and Tirzah Keffer. Tkachuk, meanwhile, […]
Staff The last time Boston Pizza lost a game in the local Monday night men’s basketball league, Santa Claus hadn’t even written his “naughty or nice” list yet. BP won its 10th-consecutive game this past Monday to improve to 10-1 on the season after holding off the Rendez-Vous 69-60. The […]
