Local News from Across the Rainy River District
The Emo and District Hospital Auxiliary’s annual fall tea and bake sale was a great success Friday afternoon, with many people attending. The beautiful log bird feeder was won by Linda Kreger. A big “thank you” to all who came out from Emo and the surrounding communities to help support […]
From the MNRF A Thunder Bay man has been fined $2,000 for deer-hunting offences. Aiden L. Svane pleaded guilty and was fined $2,000 for trespassing for the purpose of hunting. He also received a one-year hunting suspension. Court heard that a landowner complained someone shot a deer on his rural […]
Staff The Muskie football team still has one game remaining in its regular-season schedule. But the black-and-gold will have a playoff mentality when they face the St. John’s Tigers this Friday in Winnipeg. “Our mindset going into this finale is that [the] playoffs start now,” head coach Mike Cuzzolino said […]
Staff Head coach Wayne Strachan saw progression as he assessed the Fort Frances Lakers’ recent three-game road trip in which the team went 1-1-1. After opening with a 6-2 loss to the Dryden GM Ice Dogs back on Oct. 7, the Lakers suffered a 4-3 overtime loss to the Thunder […]
Duane Hicks Gillons’ Insurance staff Christina Dowty, left, and Shannon Venerus-Brown got ready to enjoy a delicious meal during the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s gala, “Making Magic for District Health Care,” on Saturday night at La Place Rendez-Vous. The sold-out gala, which marked the Foundation’s 20th anniversary, raised $36,000 […]
Duane Hicks Liam Coats, left, and his brother, Graeme, pulled out dried corn stalks yesterday evening during the season-end clean-up at the Fort Frances Community Garden. The garden, located at Lillie Avenue North, has “grown” to be very popular; not only were all of the plots adopted this year but […]
The Canadian PressSteve Lambert WINNIPEG–Family members of missing and murdered indigenous women sobbed, fought back tears, and expressed anger yesterday as they recounted what happened to their loved ones. They also recalled running up against what they said was indifference from police and people in general. “What was she to […]
The Canadian Press KAMLOOPS, B.C.–A British Columbia man who recently lost his mother is fighting for his own life after a bureaucratic mix-up declared him dead. Bryan Kupiak, who is 65 and from Kamloops, is healthy but says somehow his social insurance number was substituted for his mother’s after she […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Classes were cancelled for about half-a-million students in Ontario yesterday as faculty at the province’s colleges went on strike. The labour dispute involving more than 12,000 professors, instructors, counsellors, and librarians began late Sunday after the two sides couldn’t resolve their differences by a deadline of 12:01 […]
The Associated Press NASHVILLE–Marcus Mariota shuffled around the pocket, carefully protecting a strained left hamstring that already cost him one game this season. So the quarterback known for his legs showed off his arm. Mariota threw a 53-yard touchdown pass to Taywan Taylor with 5:29 left as the Tennessee Titans […]
The Associated Press DETROIT–Nikita Kucherov is in the middle of one of those stretches when the puck seems to do whatever he wants. The dynamic forward scored twice last night to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings. Kucherov barely touched the puck […]
The Associated PressRonald Blum NEW YORK–Back in the Bronx, the big guys delivered. Greeted by an array of “All Rise” signs in a ballpark that fits their style, Aaron Judge hit a three-run homer and made a pair of sparkling catches, leading CC Sabathia and the N.Y. Yankees over the […]
