Jamie Mountain You’ll find Noah Loveday’s name on the scoresheet more often than not so far this SIJHL season. The Fort Frances native is in the midst of a career year for the Fort Frances Lakers, racking up a league-best nine goals to go along with four assists for 13 […]
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Staff The tough times unfortunately continued for the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs women’s volleyball team last week. The Voyageurs, which includes former Muskies Hailee Barnard and Alex Spuzak, dropped their seventh straight match with a 3-0 decision to the host Central Lakes Raiders last Tuesday. The set scores were […]
Jamie Mountain Even a day filled with miserable field conditions could not stop the roll the Muskie football team is currently on. The Muskies scored a pair of touchdowns in the third quarter en route to blanking the Neelin Spartans 20-0 for their fourth straight win in Winnipeg High School […]
Jamie Mountain With the NorWOSSA playoffs just around the corner, the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team faced probably the closest thing to a playoff-type struggle last Wednesday in Kenora. A determined Broncos team played the black-and-gold tough before Fort High finally pulled away in the fourth quarter to nab a […]
Jamie Mountain Sometimes it is hard to know what to expect from players at the junior level, but so far so good for the Rainy River Owl girls’ basketball team this season. The Owls played well and cruised to a 38-22 win over the Red Lake Rams in their NorWOSSA […]
Jamie Mountain The goal each match is to get better and so far both the Rainy River Owl junior and senior boys’ volleyball teams have been able to do that. The juniors defeated the Red Lake Rams 3-0 last Thursday afternoon in their NorWOSSA ‘A’ home-opener at RRHS to see […]
Jamie Mountain The defence has been solid all season and Gord McCabe is hopeful that trend will continue for the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team as it winds down the NorWOSSA regular season over the next few weeks. The Muskies improved their league record to 6-1 with a 44-19 win […]
Nathan Sawatzky, John and Diane Mattson, and Norm Wood of Fort Frances were among the $40 winners in Alzheimer Society for Kenora-Rainy River Districts’ cash calendar draw for October. They were joined by Steve Warren and Aldam Moir (Dryden), Brett Mathieu (Almonte); JP Gagne (Red Lake); Joanne Cottam (Nestor Falls); […]
From the MNRF
Conservation officers with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry want to remind hunters that allowing game meat to spoil after an animal has been hunted is illegal and can result in significant fines and hunting licence suspensions. A Dryden man has been fined a total of $5,300 for offences […]
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Rainy River First Nations (RRFN) held their election on Friday and a new chief and council has been decided by band members. Incumbent chief Robin McGinnis was re-elected, beating out Kimberly Detweiler (Bombay), who also ran for the position. Meanwhile, incumbent councillors Willie McGinnis and Gary Medicine won the popular […]
From the MNRF
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry wants to remind all hunters that concealing big game harvested without a tag is illegal. On Oct. 22, 2017, conservation officers received a tip concerning a group of hunters exhibiting strange behaviour and blocking access to a road. A member of the public […]
Jamie Mountain Jayden Mrakic of the Thunder Bay North Stars and Ben Hoefler of the Fort Frances Lakers were determined to get the better of each other in a faceoff battle during the hosts’ 6-5 overtime win on Friday night at the Ice For Kids Arena.
