Staff Another race led to another excellent showing by the Muskie cross-country team. The black-and-gold represented Fort High well at the annual “Turkey Trot” races in Dryden on Thursday. Trent Wilson wound up first for the fourth race in a row in topping the 49-runner field with a time of […]
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Staff The Fort Frances Lakers played a pair of close games over the weekend but came out on the wrong side of the scoresheet in both. Ryan Green’s goal just under five minutes into the second period proved to be the winner as the expansion Wisconsin Lumberjacks blanked the Lakers […]
Ken Kellar Singer Ken Lavigne graced the stage at the Townshend Theatre on Thursday evening as part of the 2019-2020 Tour de Fort season. Lavigne is touring his “Three Knights with a Tenor” show, featuring the music of Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, and […]
Jamie Mountain Reece Hopfner (14) and Michael Chapman teamed up to take the puck away from Wisconsin Lumberjacks’ forward Nicholas Solema during the second period of the Fort Frances Lakers’ 6-5 overtime loss on Friday night at the Ice For Kids Arena. It was the first SIJHL win in franchise […]
Jamie Mountain Charlotte Bazylewski lent some of her expertise as she taught a youngster how to curl last Thursday evening at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Former Muskie standout Hailey Beaudry also was on hand to give sweeping tips and lessons to anyone who was interested in improving their game.
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More foliage could be coming to a park near you. At tonight’s meeting, council will receive a recommendation to endorse the application of CN EcoConnexions or New Gold Community Investment Program for a large-scale tree planting program at the Phair Avenue and Lillie Avenue Park in 2020. Approval of the […]
The Canadian Press WINNIPEG–Families forced to flee the Lake Manitoba First Nation are expressing frustration around evacuation efforts following a recent snowstorm that’s left thousands of people in the province without electricity for days. Babies and seniors alike were crowded into a Winnipeg hotel lobby yesterday waiting for buses in […]
The Canadian PressBob Weber The road should have been frozen solid, but it was anything but. When drivers tried to travel the Mackenzie Valley winter road in the Northwest Territories last March, it was an unpassable highway of muck well before its usual closure date. Four communities were left without […]
The Canadian PressBill Graveland Vivian York recalls that the debris was still flying when she drove up to an intersection where the Humboldt Broncos hockey bus and a semi-truck carrying peat moss had just collided. The nurse was coming home from a haircut and was the first person at the […]
The Canadian PressJoan Bryden OTTAWA–Andrew Scheer is raising the spectre of a reckless, tax-and-spend Liberal-NDP coalition government to urge Canadians to hand the Conservatives a majority on Oct. 21. The Conservative leader warned yesterday that such a coalition would lead to out-of-control spending, “massive” new taxes and “endless deficits” that […]
The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif.–California will ban the sale and manufacture of new fur products starting in 2023. Legislation signed Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom makes California the first state to enact such a ban. It doesn’t apply to used fur products or fur used for religious or tribal purposes. […]
Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a rain or snow shower in spots and a low of one C (34 F). Tomorrow will have low clouds with a high of six (43) and low of zero (32). Thursday will be partly sunny in the day with partial cloud coverage at […]
