Mitch Calvert Steve Arpin made a good first impression as a member of Venturini Motorsports on Saturday en route to a fourth-place finish at the Pennsylvania 200 from Pocono Raceway. It was the Fort Frances native’s best finish on the ARCA RE/MAX Series since a fifth-place showing at the Tim […]
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Staff The Muskie football team will soon be making a return to the gridiron for training camp, tentatively scheduled to start Aug. 24. “[A later start] should help us get more guys into training camp,” offensive coordinator Andrew George conceded. The camp will run Monday-Thursday evenings beginning at 6 p.m. […]
Mitch Calvert A plan to bring a senior ‘A’ men’s hockey team to the area is still very much alive. “We’re still putting a budget together,” organizer Dean Bruyere said. “Having a hard time getting ice-time here in Fort Frances, but I’m sitting on my hands waiting with how the […]
Mitch Calvert With the all-star game commencing last night (see front section for results) and the playoffs just around the corner (beginning Aug. 11), the local Rainy River District Fastball League is officially heating up. A few make-up games are still to be played, but there won’t be much jockeying […]
Staff So far, so good for Steve Arpin with Venturini Motorsports. The Fort Frances native switched over to the driver development program for NASCAR’s Joe Gibbs Racing from Eddie Sharp Racing prior to this past Saturday’s Pennsylvania 200 from Pocono Raceway—and sped to his best finish on tour with a […]
Mitch Calvert Video footage: http://fortfrances.tv/videos/KfVkCu-WwmI Kent and Steve Ballan may not have challenged for their second Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship title over the weekend, but they accomplished something just as satisfying. The brothers, along with Kent’s wife, Michelle, and Len Bedard, saved a young moose from drowning last week […]
Mitch Calvert Steve Arpin will be part of the lineup for this Saturday’s Pennsylvania ARCA 200 at Pocono Raceway—only with a different car and race uniform. The Fort Frances native has signed on with the Venturini Motorsports Driver Development Program (affiliated with NASCAR’s Joe Gibbs Racing), and will take the […]
Mitch Calvert Fort Frances siblings Chad and Mike Hanson moved up the charts at this year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship quicker than the Hansons’ “MMMbop” song did back in 1997. But these Hansons don’t have plans of being a one-hit wonder after a fifth-place finish in just their second […]
Mitch Calvert Fort Frances native Mark Loveday will be wearing a Shattuck St. Mary’s Sabres jersey this fall. The youngster spent last season tending the pipes for the local K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ squad and his strong play landed him a spot with the Faribault, Mn.-based boarding school’s […]
Mitch Calvert It might be time to rope off Haymarsh Bay if organizers hope to have new champions crowned at next year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. The Minnesota duo of Joe Thrun and Jim Moynagh have made some serious hay in there the last two years—again stringing together three […]
Mitch Calvert Joe Thrun and Jim Moynagh cemented their claim as the best tandem in Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship history by winning their third-straight title, and fifth overall, on Saturday to conclude the 15th-annual event. It wasn’t even close this time as the Minnesota duo brought in a 20.09-pound […]
Mitch Calvert There’s a familiar team atop the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championships standings after Day 1, but they’re far from in the clear. Four-time champs Joe Thrun and Jim Moynagh brought in a 19.14-pound bag yesterday—despite a near-medical emergency—to eclipse Matt Christy and Chris Hay (Team #29) by less […]
