Staff The Rainy River District Fastball League handed out its end-of-season awards Friday in Big Grassy. The big winner on the night was Big Island’s Jesse Tom, who tied for the home run king award with Rainy River’s Tony Armstrong (eight apiece), while also collecting the top shortstop prize and […]
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Mitch Calvert Two key cogs during last Wednesday night’s 11-0 rout of the expansion Sioux Lookout Flyers won’t be in Fort Frances Jr. Sabres uniforms for the next little while. Mitch Cain and Carson Dubchak (who combined for five goals and nine points against the Flyers) have been invited to […]
Martin Williams On Friday (Oct. 3), Crossroads School in Devlin hosted the annual district-wide chess tournament for 111 players, who crammed in 555 games in the three hours between arriving and climbing back into buses and car pools. The gym was a hive of energy from start to finish—and none […]
Mitch Calvert Border control still is a major concern for the tourism industry in Northwestern Ontario. That was the general consensus reached at the North Western Ontario Tourism Association’s annual fall meeting last Thursday in Nestor Falls—but new marketing approaches certainly are in the works to combat the downturn in […]
Mitch Calvert The start of the game looked promising, but the end result was anything but as the Muskie football team suffered a 28-16 loss to the host Tec Voc Hornets on Friday afternoon. Quarterback Dan Brunetta ran in for a first-half touchdown, and running back Matt DiPiero added the […]
Mitch Calvert FORT FRANCES—“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.” Jade Green, nine, certainly falls in the latter category of that famous Helen Keller quote. The visually-impaired Grade 4 student at Robert Moore School here certainly doesn’t let her disability get in her […]
Mitch Calvert The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres will be missing two of their best offensive weapons tonight when they host the Dryden Ice Dogs at 7:30 p.m. at the Ice for Kids Arena. The Sabres will be without forwards Mitch Cain and Carson Dubchak, who are trying out for Team […]
Staff Costly turnovers and poor special teams play spelled doom for the Muskie football team Friday in a 28-16 road defeat to Winnipeg’s Tec Voc Hornets. The Muskies jumped out to an early lead on a quarterback sneak by Dan Brunetta, but Tim Peebles of the Hornets then returned a […]
Staff Both the Muskie junior and senior girls’ basketball squads dominated the first halves of their respective home-openers last Thursday against the Kenora Broncos and then coasted to lopsided 18-point victories. The juniors improved to 2-0 in NorWOSSA play with a 35-17 win while the seniors evened their record at […]
Staff The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ soon-to-be booster club held its first informal meeting Monday night in the common room at Flinder’s Place, with club member Larry Patrick saying the response from the community was well-received. “We had an enthusiastic group of people out, and each of us is going […]
Staff Although the Muskies didn’t qualify a full team for the NWOSSAA golf tournament in Thunder Bay last week, Alex McDonald and Kevin Jackson both represented Fort High individually at the event—and certainly didn’t look out of place. McDonald shot a 77 while Jackson carded a 78, missing the individual […]
Staff Home court was not friendly for the Muskie senior and junior boys’ volleyball teams last Thursday. The seniors fell just short against the visiting Kenora Broncos, dropping the first two sets by identical 25-19 scores before roaring back to take the next two 25-21 and 25-17 to force a […]
