Dan Falloon The Fort Frances Thunderhawks can’t seem to wake up and smell the coffee wafting through the air. Perhaps an industrial strength fan blasting the aroma of caffeine into their dressing room would do the trick. The T’hawks have been plagued by slow starts in their three games so […]
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Staff Things haven’t been looking up for the most part for the Fort Frances Lakers this season. But that isn’t preventing their head coach from looking up in the standings. “We have a goal to finish third in the league,” Wayne Strachan said in a press release. “We have a […]
Staff Local bowlers Carolyn Stamarski and Jeanie Townson both advanced to the provincial round of the annual “Pins Over Average” tournament following the zone roll-offs held Saturday and Sunday at Plaza Lanes here. Stamarski topped the women by finishing 193 pins over her 166 average—rolling games of 232, 155, 210, […]
Dan Falloon Skating onto a clean sheet of ice with the home fans cheering over top of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” the Fort Frances Thunderhawks were primed to be rip-roaring and ready to go. But not even inspiration from the Australian rockers could help the T’hawks avoid a pair of slow starts […]
Staff The Dryden Ice Dogs sent the Fort Frances Lakers home with their tails between their legs. Kevin Burton had a goal and two assists, and eight different Ice Dogs lit the lamp, in an 8-2 victory for Dryden on Friday night. The second-place Ice Dogs (21-3-2) won their ninth […]
Staff One journey was a quick drive across the bridge. The other was a lengthy haul up Highway 502. Unfortunately, neither yielded much in the way of good feelings for the Muskie girls’ hockey team over the weekend. Fort High dropped a pair of one-goal decisions—falling 3-2 in an exhibition […]
Staff If undefeated seasons were easy to achieve, everybody would pull off the feat. After starting the season on an 18-0 run, the Muskie boys’ hockey team finally met their match a couple of different times over the weekend at the 19th-annual Genesis Hospitality tournament in Brandon, Man. After blanking […]
Staff Almost 55 minutes of hard work by the Fort Frances Lakers last night was erased in just 53 seconds. That’s how long it took the Sioux Lookout Flyers to score three times, the last two by Dwight Lee, and turn a 3-2 deficit into a 5-3 victory over the […]
Staff Girls set to play twice Brett McMahon did his best Brett Hull imitation yesterday. McMahon played the part of sharpshooter with a pair of third-period goals to lead the Muskie boys’ hockey team to a 6-0 victory over the Sanford Collegiate Sabres in their opening game of a tournament […]
Staff Fort Frances’ lone representative in the NHL is about to make the Windy City his hockey home for a very long time. The Chicago Blackhawks were scheduled to hold a press conference today where it was expected they’ll announce contract extensions for three players, including defenceman Duncan Keith, who […]
Press Release Winter is just around the corner, and many Canadians are gearing up for the start of another skiing and snowboarding season. As such, the Canadian Physiotherapy Association is strongly encouraging Canadians of all ages to wear helmets when downhill skiing or snowboarding. The death of actress Natasha Richardson, […]
the MNR A Minnesota angler has been fined $3,025 for possessing more than his limit of walleye. James Merton Neilson, of Andover, was convicted of possessing 11 walleye over his legal possession limit of four and fined $275 for each over-limit fish. Court heard that on Sept. 6, Ministry of […]
