Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—The White Pine Inn here is up for tax sale by the Town of Fort Frances. “Basically, it’s been abandoned by the owner so for us to try to recover the outstanding taxes, the tax sale process is one of the means, as per the Municipal Act,” […]
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Staff A first-year team is bound to have its peaks and valleys. But Arthur Van Ael ensured the Muskies wouldn’t leave Dryden empty-handed. Van Ael captured bronze in the senior boys’ 7.5-km event at the NorWOSSA Nordic ski races yesterday. He turned in a time of 36:22 to trail only […]
Joey Payeur There’s no place like home. The Muskie boys’ hockey team grabbed home-ice advantage throughout the NorWOSSA playoffs after locking up first place with an 8-1 thumping of the Sioux Lookout Warriors in their regular-season finale last night at the Ice For Kids Arena. Sioux Lookout (9-5) dropped down […]
Staff Devlin native Mike Badiuk and Travis Showalter of Nestor Falls would be perfectly fine with a lack of suspense come tomorrow. Badiuk, at third, and Showalter at lead have been on their games to help Dylan Johnston’s Thunder Bay rink to a 4-0 record and a three-way tie for […]
Joey Payeur Firmly in the underdog role, Chris Silver and his Fort Frances rink wanted to keep the game as close as they could for as long as they could. That lasted all of one end in the face of the tornado that is Tanner Horgan. The Sudbury rink scored […]
Staff The Fort Frances Power Corp. is warning of a phone scam some of its customers have reported here. The scam involves a caller posing as a utility official who threatens to cut off electricity to residents if they don’t immediately make payment through a money wire transfer or pre-paid […]
Joey Payeur Travis Enge of the Rainy Lake Highlanders led the procession of teams taking part in last night’s opening ceremonies of the 2015 Tim Hortons Bantam boys’ provincial championships being hosted by the Fort Frances Curling Club.
Staff The point of make-up games is to make up ground. Kiss My Pass followed that plan to the letter last week—getting the maximum six points available as one of only three teams in action in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League. The league’s second-place squad swept sixth-place Bump it […]
Staff One blowout plus one nail-biter equals one good start. Devlin’s Mike Badiuk and Travis Showalter from Nestor Falls played a large hand in helping Thunder Bay skip Dylan Johnston get off to a 2-0 start yesterday at the Northern Ontario men’s curling championship in Kenora. With Badiuk at third […]
Joey Payeur Muskie goalie Jordan Carlson put in his best work of the night in the third period with this one-timer save off the Kenora’s Colton Yaremko, and then the rebound stop off Logan Ginn, as part of his shutout performance in Fort High’s 9-0 win here Tuesday night.
Heather Latter Taylor McTavish, right, tried her hand at some of the activities in one of the Early Years classrooms at Robert Moore School yesterday while her older sister, Tira Prince, looked on. The three-year-old got a tour of the school during a registration open house for youngsters who will […]
