Jamie Mountain It’s been a dream start to the NorWOSSA season for both the Muskie senior and junior girls’ volleyball teams. The juniors made quick work of the host Dryden Eagles (0-4) back on Dec. 20 with a 3-0 win to head into the Christmas break in first place with […]
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Jamie Mountain The Muskie senior and junior boys’ basketball teams battled hard in the first half of the NorWOSSA season and are looking to continue that trend over the latter part of the schedule. The seniors went into the Christmas break fresh off an impressive 74-52 win over the host […]
Staff The Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association’s PeeWee Leafs travelled to Fargo, N.D. to play in the SCHEELS Girls’ International Hockey Tournament over the weekend, where they wound up finishing in fifth place in the 12U ‘B’ division. As a result of injuries and a short bench, the squad picked […]
Jamie Mountain The Muskie boys’ hockey team has been able to withstand a plethora of injuries and are more than ready to embrace what the second half of the season might bring. The black-and-gold finished the first half of the NorWOSSA season with a 5-2 record and headed into the […]
Jamie Mountain Sean Cameron had his mind made up heading into the weekend that he wasn’t going to be denied. With former champs Anniss Seid and Peter Russell opting not to compete this time around, the door was wide open and Cameron took full advantage–showing off some fantastic skills in […]
Staff Landon Okell and Benjamin Norlock each scored twice to pace the Red Lake Gladiators to a 7-1 romp over the Lake of the Woods Bears here Sunday afternoon to claim the title of the Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association’s annual Bantam ‘A’ tournament. After a mostly back-and-forth first period, […]
Jamie Mountain The Muskie girls’ hockey team’s fitness level is going to be put to the test over the next couple of weeks. The black-and-gold kicked off a busy stint by playing in the annual Loop Weekend tournament in Thunder Bay over the weekend, where they compiled a 1-2-1 record. […]
Jamie Mountain It may be a new year but the same old problems are plaguing the Fort Frances Lakers. A rough first period ultimately proved too much to overcome as the Dryden GM Ice Dogs rolled to a 6-1 victory over the visiting Lakers on Saturday night in both teams’ […]
Staff The PeeWee ‘AAA’ Paper Kings represented Northwestern Ontario–and Canada–at the Paul Bunyan International PeeWee Hockey Tournament held Dec. 28-30 in Bemidji, Mn. The team features local players Teagan Wrolstad, Royce Allan, Dakato Cooper, and Hayden Beckett, and is coached by Rooke Pitura of Kenora along with Corrie Trist and […]
The Canadian PressMia Rabson OTTAWA–A decade-old goal to get at least half-a-million electric cars on Canada’s roads by the end of 2018 appears to have missed the mark by more than 400,000. The 2009 Electric Vehicle Technology Road Map for Canada, produced by a panel of experts in part for […]
Duane Hicks Bingo caller Sarah Clouston, left, and library CEO Caroline Goulding checked which numbers had been called during a game yesterday afternoon at the Fort Frances Public Library. The game was played during the weekly “Tween Club” which has resumed now that the Christmas break is over. Youths aged […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER–The Court of Appeal of British Columbia has given the federal government more time to fix its solitary confinement law after a lower court declared indefinite prisoner segregation unconstitutional. The B.C. Supreme Court ruling last January gave Ottawa a year to enact replacement legislation but the Appeal […]
