Staff While the weather was a lot nicer last week, the turnout still was a bit low in Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League action last Tuesday night at Fort High. Thankfully, the games were good and those who came out enjoyed some exercise and intense hoops action. The first game […]
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Staff A short-handed goal in the third period proved to be the difference as the Muskie boys’ hockey team lost 5-4 to the host Sioux Lookout Warriors yesterday afternoon. The Muskies (11-3) started off well, opening the scoring early in the first period. After winning a face-off in the Muskies’ […]
From the OPP Over the past several days, the Rainy River District OPP has been alerted to several traffic complaints around J.W. Walker School located on the 400 block of Keating Avenue South. For everyone’s safety, the OPP and the Fort Frances By-Law Department are urging parents to utilize the […]
It will be overcast tonight, with an overnight low of minus-15 C (five F) and west-northwest winds gusting up to 17 km/h. Tomorrow will see occasional light snow during the day, then a possible additional accumulation of five-10 cm (two-four hours) in the overnight hours. Look for a high of […]
From the OPP In the morning of Feb. 10, members of the Fort Frances OPP responded to a request for service after a local business had been broken into. An OPP Scenes of Crime Officer attended and gathered physical evidence while members of the Fort Frances OPP followed other investigative […]
From the OPP The Kenora OPP is asking for the public’s assistance in locating two stolen snowmachines and a trailer. On Saturday around 7 p.m., police were notified of a theft that occurred at a business on Railway Street in Kenora. It is unknown when the theft occurred. The stolen […]
The Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has told Louisiana’s governor there was an error in the officiating that helped the Los Angeles Rams go to the Super Bowl instead of the New Orleans Saints, but there’s nothing he can do about it. Goodell wrote to […]
By Kate Brumback The Associated Press ATLANTA — A historian who has spent years looking into the unsolved lynching of two black couples in rural Georgia more than 70 years ago hopes some answers may finally be within his grasp. A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a lower court […]
By Isabel Debre The Associated Press JERUSALEM — The traditional brightly embroidered dress of Palestinian women known as the “thobe” was not the type of garment one would expect to become a pop political symbol. Now it’s gaining prominence as a softer expression of Palestinian nationalism, competing even with the […]
By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK — Cigarette smoking rates have stopped falling among U.S. kids, and health officials believe youth vaping is responsible. For decades, the percentage of high school and middle school students who smoked cigarettes had been declining fairly steadily. For the past three years, […]
By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press We love pound cake and we love chocolate, but the combination is often a disappointment. That’s because most recipes simply add chocolate to a standard pound cake recipe, which mars its finely tuned texture and usually produces lacklustre chocolate flavour. We wanted to […]
By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press Vegetable curries are a great hearty choice for a vegetarian meal. Filled with bold flavours and a good variety of vegetables, they can be healthy, satisfying, and delicious—as long as the vegetables are well cooked and the flavours are balanced. To nail the […]
