Staff How I Set Your Mother garnered the maximum six points in Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action last night. The Volley Llamas, Take A Hit, No Diggity, and Kiss My Pass all took five points. Gillons’ nabbed four points while Scared Hitless took three. Bump It Up managed to […]
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From the OPP A Kenora man is facing drug-related charges following an ongoing investigation into drug-trafficking there. On Wednesday around 9:45 a.m., as a result of an ongoing investigation, police arrested a male in the north end of Kenora. A brief foot chase ensued before the male was taken into […]
Jamie Mountain A monster performance by senior Muskie Kobi Ward highlighted Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League action Tuesday night at the Fort High gym. In an intense–and at times testy–game, Ward scored 31 points to lead the Muskies to a 74-56 victory over the BDO Ballerz. The black-and-gold jumped out […]
Staff All four Muskie court sports teams will be in action this weekend. The junior and senior girls’ volleyball teams headed to Kenora for an exhibition tournament that begins today and wraps up tomorrow. The junior and senior boys’ basketball teams, meanwhile, will participate in the annual Falcon Invitational tournament […]
Submitted Moms and their babies were at the Fort Frances Public Library yesterday morning for the start of the winter session of “Baby Time.” The program runs every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Register online at ffpltc.ca/node/891 but drop-ins also welcome. Pictured here are Raylene and Beckham, Chayla and Kingston, Lindsay […]
Duane Hicks The town’s trackless sidewalk plow cleared a path along King’s Highway yesterday after a dump of snow fell on Borderland the previous night. The white stuff has been followed up with bitterly cold temperatures, with the wind chill value near minus-40 C this morning. Unfortunately, more frigid nights […]
The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO–Ontario’s largest and recently-privatized electricity utility has spent $9 million to redesign its bills–and is proposing to spend an additional $6 million on the project. Hydro One has come under fire for spending since the Liberal government sold more than half of the company, notably for […]
The Canadian PressKristy Kirkup OTTAWA–NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says he personally has discussed the issue of sexual misconduct with his caucus members, and that his party has a zero-tolerance policy for such behaviour. It’s vital for someone in a leadership role to send a strong message about unacceptable behaviour, Singh […]
The Canadian Press INGLIS, Man.–What does a Manitoba man do when nature coats a rural highway with a thick coat of pristine ice in the middle of winter? For Wade Eftoda the answer was obvious: put on hockey skates and use the road as a makeshift rink. Eftoda and his […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–The inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls has lost another executive director. The federally-funded commission–plagued by many staffing changes throughout its tenure–says Debbie Reid has left the commission as executive director but it will not comment further, calling it a personnel matter. In a […]
The Associated Press LUBEC, Maine — A fishing-industry building on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places is half-submerged in waters near a Canadian island, and conservationists fear it could disintegrate before legal tangles are resolved. The Jan. 4 blizzard tore the brine shed from its mooring at McCurdy’s Smokehouse […]
The Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The U.S. Army has filed a challenge opposing the application of the NHL’s newest franchise to register the trademark “Vegas Golden Knights.” In a claim filed Wednesday with the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in suburban Washington, the Army claims it will be […]
