Duane Hicks Move over “Highway Thru Hell.” Todd, Roj, “Grizz,” Jimmy, Matt, and Mikey of the Shotgun Exploration crew will be back for Season 2 of “Fool’s Gold” starting with back-to-back episodes on Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. on the Discovery Channel. “Fool’s Gold” hit ratings paydirt in its […]
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Staff The “Open Streets” event held in Emo last Thursday has been deemed a success by organizers. “I think for the first year it was quite successful,” enthused Allison Cox, rec director/community development co-ordinator for the Township of Emo. “We were really happy with the turnout—there were tons of kids, […]
Joey Payeur Cowbells, airhorns, and spectator shouts split the chilly late-summer night air at various times. Those sounds changed to the explosion of celebratory fireworks and the joyful cheers of new champions. The third-ranked Northwest Bay Beavers captured their first Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League title with a 21-17 […]
Duane Hicks Mark “Grizz” Fairnington, left, and Jimmy “Big E” Easton fed rocks into a hammer mill, which grinds them down to powder and releases the gold, if any, from the rocks.
Cameron Penney Young Teagan McKinnon, along with her grandfather, Jim McKinnon, enjoyed dinner at the Watten Volunteer Fire Department’s annual fish fry Friday at Sunny Cove. More than 350 people came out to enjoy the meal, with entertainment provided by local duo “Entirely Mac” (Danette and Wayne McIntyre).
Lindsay Campbell Emo Fair Queen Caitlin Anderson, left, along with Second Princess Kassidy Strachan and friends Riley Redford and Kennedy Latimer, gave their best shot at outdoor zumba last Thursday during “Open Streets” festivities in Emo. A variety of other activities were offered along Front Street from noon-3 p.m. to […]
Joey Payeur Lane Hyatt of Emo opted to take the sky-high road as he sailed over this jump during the first moto (heat) in the Schoolboy division at the Northern Ontario Superior Dirt Riders event Saturday at the Emo motocross track. Hyatt finished seventh in this moto but was third […]
The Associated PressJill Lawless LONDON — Don’t set your watch by Big Ben. Officials say the famous clock at Britain’s Parliament — used by Londoners for decades to check the time — has recently been slow by as much as six seconds. The 156-year-old clock chimes every 15 minutes and […]
The Canadian Press CAMPBELLTON, N.B. — A senior official with New Brunswick’s liquor corporation is defending a law that limits anyone in the province from having more than 12 pints of beer that weren’t sold by a provincially licensed liquor outlet. Richard Smith, senior vice-president with the NB Liquor Corp., […]
The Associated PressMaria Cheng GOTHENBURG, Sweden — For one family in Sweden, a pioneering procedure has led to a baby being born from the same womb that nurtured his mother, uniting three generations. The new mother, who lost her own uterus to cancer in her 20s, said it was “unimaginable” […]
The Associated PressJ.M. Hirsch Want to build a better salad? Think thin. This summer, I fell in love with my mandoline, that paddle-shaped kitchen gadget that with back-and-forth swipes lets you easily and quickly render produce to paper-thin slices. Why for salads? Because tender wafers of carrot and ribbons of […]
The Canadian Press KLEMTU, B.C.—A Japanese fisherman is to be reunited with his boat more than four years after a powerful tsunami hit his country and carried the craft to the shores of British Columbia. Kou Sasaki arrived in Vancouver yesterday and later this week will be heading to the […]
