Joey Payeur Kristina Bombay of Al’s Racquet Stringing, left, and Nicole Avis of the La Place Rendez-Vous Voyageurs U18 team kept their eye on the ball during the first half of the Voyageurs’ 7-4 victory to open the Borderland Soccer League women’s division season yesterday evening.
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the MNR Two new fires were reported in the Northwest Region between June 6 and the evening of June 8. Both blazes were human-caused and both have been declared out. The first started on June 7 in Dryden District—a 0.5-hectare fire located near Sundial Lake, about 15 km north of […]
Staff Two members of last year’s SIJHL championship team will have new addresses this fall. Forward Brent Aiken and defenceman John Dora were revealed yesterday by the Fort Frances Lakers as the final pieces of two separate trade puzzles which occurred earlier last season. Aiken is off to the English […]
Staff First half, soccer game. Second half, pinball game. Hailey Beaudry booted a hat trick and Angel McCormack added a pair to lead the defending champion La Place Rendez-Vous Voyageurs U18 squad to a 7-4 triumph over Al’s Racquet Stringing in the season-opener for the women’s division of the Borderland […]
Submitted Members of the 1st Fort Frances Guides and Pathfinders, including Rya Hawrylak, left, Piper Caldwell, and Morgan Gagne, joined members of the Fort Frances Horticultural Society yesterday evening to clean and plant the courtyards at Rainycrest.
Duane Hicks The gloves are off. International Falls councillors Cynthia Jaksa and Gail Rognerud, escorted by former mayor and current city EDA director Shawn Mason, appeared before town council last night to challenge them in the Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Festival on July 1 and then in the “Peace Pull” […]
the MNR The Ministry of Natural Resources advises that due to the spring thaw and recent rain, Seine River has flooded a portion of Sapawe-Upsala Road, located 20 km east and six km north of Atikokan. The ministry closed the road yesterday between the Premier Road junction, 12 km north […]
Press Release Unifor is recommending its 1,700 members across the Kenora-Rainy River riding support incumbent NDP MPP Sarah Campbell in the June 12 provincial election. “PC candidate Randy Nickle is likeable enough but the grim reality is every vote he gets is a vote for Tim Hudak and his radical, […]
Staff The Muskie girls’ squad finished its stay at the OFSAA ‘AA’ championships in Collingwood with a 4-0 loss to the Holy Trinity Catholic High School Titans (Simcoe) on Friday. That left Fort High with a 1-3 record to put them in fourth place in the five-team Pool ‘B.’ The […]
Heather Latter Angie Redford checked out the Zenith 750 aircraft, owned by Leo Arrigo, during the 15th-annual “Fly-In, Drive-In BBQ” yesterday at the Fort Frances Airport. The event featured several planes and a number of antique cars, as well as an array of barbecued fare served up by the local […]
Staff Tbaytel will be erect a new cell tower in downtown Fort Frances this summer. Summit Telecom Services, on behalf of Tbaytel, has sent notice to the town that the public consultation process, as required by Industry Canada, has been completed for a 20-metre high tower to be located behind […]
Press Release As noted last Tuesday, recent rainfall brought very high inflow conditions throughout the basin, particularly to the southern tributaries of the Rainy River, the Vermillion River, and the Seine River. Rainy Lake also rose above its Upper Rule Curve (URC) on May 29 and now is at the […]
