If the Muskie senior girls’ basketball squad is going to win a second-straight NorWOSSA title, it will be up to the young guns to prove their merit. This year’s Muskie roster will be dramatically different from last year’s championship squad which dumped the Dryden Eagles 43-19 in the league final. […]
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Bob Swing and Jon Romu were teammates on the University of Manitoba Bisons, and shared the camaraderie most teammates do. But that’s not to say Romu, head coach of the Kelvin Clippers (1-0-1), isn’t above trying to extend the misery of Swing and the Muskies (0-2) this Friday afternoon during […]
Adrian Chapman would be happy to discuss how his Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team is going to fare this season—if he knew himself. “I don’t know,” Chapman said simply when asked about his squad’s chances at winning NorWOSSA this season after a difficult four-set semi-final loss to the Kenora Broncos […]
A Minnesota law which took effect Aug. 1 imposes new restrictions on hunters bringing deer and moose carcasses into that state. The law bans the importation of whole cervid (i.e., deer, moose, elk, and caribou) carcasses from all adjacent states, as well as Ontario, in an attempt to prevent the […]
Fort Frances OPP Cst. Mike Golding always had wondered what finishing an Ironman Triathlon would be like. Now he’s just wondering why the calendar won’t move quicker so he can take part in the next one. Competing in the men’s 30-34 age group, the local lawman pushed his body to […]
Jon Dupuis and Sandra Windego were jumping for joy. Dupuis shot an 81 to win the men’s division of this year’s Frog Creek Open at Kitchen Creek Golf Club on Sunday while Windego fired a 96 to top the ladies. The victories mean the duo now must uphold the tournament’s […]
The pieces are falling into place, but there’s still room and time for prospective curlers to throw their brooms into the ring. Monday night’s registration for the upcoming competitive season at the Fort Frances Curling Club drew a good crowd, said president Bill Gushulak, but left open the opportunity to […]
Steve Arpin’s lead-footed ways have landed him a nationwide spotlight. The Fort Frances stock car racer rebounded from a slow start to take the checkered flag in the Modified division at the WISSOTA 100 national championships in Cedar Lake, Wis. last weekend. “I couldn’t believe it,” said the 19-year-old upon […]
For a while, the doctor was definitely in. Dr. Steve Chown was on course for victory at the Golf Manitoba Club Champions Championship at the Links at the Lake course in Gimli after shooting an opening round 77 on Saturday to sit within two strokes of the lead. But the […]
They were looking for a few good boys and girls and, apparently, they found them. The Central Canada Chess League, which is holding tournaments throughout Northern Ontario in September and October, stopped at St. Francis School here, Crossroads School in Devlin, and Riverview School in Rainy River last week to […]
There are no guarantees in life— or evidently, in football, either. Muskie ‘A’ football head coach Bob Swing had vowed last week that the black-and-gold would end their lengthy WHSFL losing streak, but the River East Kodiaks had their own ideas last Friday afternoon in Winnipeg. The result was a […]
The Muskie ‘C’ football team decided to build a better Bear trap this time around—and it nearly snagged them their first win of the year. After suffering a 44-0 loss to the Baudette Bears here in their opening game of the season two weeks earlier, the Muskies brought out the […]
