Staff Town council is being recommended to endorse guidelines for usage of the Rainy Lake Square at its regular meeting tonight. The guidelines include allowing bar and restaurant businesses with catering endorsements to sell alcohol at events at the Rainy Lake Square, as well as the prohibition of smoking in […]
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Staff How I Set Your Mother, Take A Hit, and Bump It Up all garnered the maximum six points in Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action Thursday night. The Volley Llamas, Gillons’, Let’s Talk About Sets, Kiss My Pass, and Safe Sets each nabbed three points. Scared Hitless snared two […]
Staff It was a great showing for the Muskie girls’ hockey team last week at the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ championships in Timmins. Seeded third for the 16-team tournament, the squad fell short of their goal of a provincial title with a 3-0 loss to second-ranked St. Anne’s CSS in Friday morning’s […]
Jamie Mountain Talk about going out with a bang. The Muskie boys’ curling rink, comprised of Grade 12 players Chris Silver, Jason Bazylewski, and Daniel Vandenbrand, along with Owen Riches and Ben Olson, won OFSAA gold with a 6-3 win over Widdifield (North Bay) in Saturday afternoon’s boys’ final at […]
Staff Fort Frances native Ian Tookenay scored just 1:21 into overtime to lift the host Fort Frances Lakers to a 2-1 victory over the English River Miners on Saturday night in Game 3 of their best-of-five quarter-final playoff series. The Lakers now lead the series 2-1 and have English River […]
Jamie Mountain English River Miners’ goalie Michael Lenko kicked a shot aside while defenceman Terix Fischer-Kobes tried to knock Fort Frances Lakers’ forward Jack Bernie out of the way during the squad’s 2-1 overtime loss in Game 3 of the best-of-five quarter-final playoff series Saturday night at the Ice For […]
Jamie Mountain The Muskie boys’ curling rink capped an excellent season by claiming OFSAA gold with a 6-3 win over Widdifield (North Bay) in the final Saturday afternoon at the Fort Frances Curling Club. The squad is comprised of skip Chris Silver, left, Daniel Vandenbrand, Jason Bazylewski, Owen Riches, and […]
The Canadian PressJoan Bryden OTTAWA–After more than two years riding the brakes on a raft of promised reforms to election laws, the Trudeau government is preparing to put the pedal to the metal to get them in place in time for the next federal election in 2019. With Elections Canada […]
The Canadian PressShawn Jeffords TORONTO–For the third-straight day, Ontario’s Liberal government, which is facing an election in about two months, pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on health care–promising Thursday to tackle overcrowding and long waits in the province’s hospitals. Premier Kathleen Wynne, whose Liberals are down in […]
By Aaron Beard The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Welcome to a Final Four filled with past national champions just the way the NCAA selection committee drew it up, right? OK, maybe not. Sure, there’s plenty of the expected with 1-seed Villanova making it to San Antonio in pursuit of […]
By Janie McCauley The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Todd Helton now regularly drives his two daughters to school or other activities back home in Tennessee, a huge life change for Colorado’s former All-Star first baseman. He had no idea retirement would be such a daunting and overwhelming adjustment at […]
By Nataliya Vasilyeva The Associated Press MOSCOW — With the fire alarms silent and staff reportedly nowhere to be seen, a fire at a shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school recess killed 64 people in Russia’s Siberia. The fire at the […]
