Jamie Mountain The Rainy River Owl junior boys’ volleyball team accomplished its goal of making the playoffs and is hoping to end the regular season strong this week. The Owls were strong on Monday afternoon as they dispatched the visiting Ignace Falcons 3-0 to see their NorWOSSA ‘A’ record improve […]
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Jamie Mountain The coaching staff for the Muskie boys’ hockey team looks vastly different as the black-and-gold prepares to head into a new NorWOSSA season. After spending last year at the helm of the Muskie girls’ squad, Chris Sinclair will be taking the reins from Jordan Sinclair to lead the […]
Jamie Mountain For the second year in a row the Muskie girls’ hockey team will have a new head coach. Chris Sinclair has moved over to head the Muskie boys’ squad, giving Nicole Clarke the opportunity to step into the role for the girls. Clarke will be joined behind the […]
Jamie Mountain They were determined to get the win and did everything in their power to secure it. The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team held the visiting Dryden Eagles to just four points in the fourth quarter en route to a convincing 53-35 win last Wednesday afternoon at Fort High. […]
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A Fort Frances man has been killed in a motor vehicle-pedestrian collision on Hwy. 11/17, west of Fraser Road in Thunder Bay At approximately 5:21 a.m. Monday, officers from the Thunder Bay detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), as well as Superior North Emergency Medical Service (EMS) responded to […]
In last week’s Cheers and Jeers, a Cheer went out to Canada Border Services (CBS) officers for wearing orange stripes on their shoulders. The writer of the Cheer believed that the vests signified CBS officers in training. In fact, the orange epaulettes do not identify new recruits; rather, they are […]
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The clock is ticking. The Town of Fort Frances announced at the beginning of the month that it had 90 days to begin a purchase process with a buyer for the idle mill here. Mayor June Caul said two companies are still interested in trying to make a deal and […]
The Associated Press The number of young Americans watching online videos every day has more than doubled, according to survey findings released today. They’re glued to them for nearly an hour a day, twice as long as they were four years ago. And often, the survey found, they’re seeing the […]
Ken Kellar Diane Maxey ran through some of the house rules for rehearsals for the Christmas choraliers during a practice last night at the New Beginnings Fellowship church. According to Maxey, so far she’s had more than 70 people sign up to take part in the choraliers this year, who […]
Jamie Mountain Issy Taylor attempted to put a backhander home while on a breakaway during the third period of the Muskie girls’ hockey team’s 5-4 win in exhibition action last night at “The Duke” (Couchiching Arena). Taylor scored twice to help pace the Muskies’ offence. Fort High next will be […]
The Canadian PressJoanna Smith OTTAWA–Canada will be years past celebrating its tricentennial before the country can close the economic gap between men and women if things keep improving at the glacial pace they are now, a new report says. “Years of effort to remove entrenched economic, cultural and social barriers […]
The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO–People in Ontario will likely soon be able to drink around the clock in airport bars, take their dogs onto patios and into breweries, and bring home as much booze as they want from other provinces. The proposed loosened alcohol restrictions were among dozens of measures […]
