Lucas Punkari With a mile-wide grin on his face, it was easy to figure out the thoughts of Grade 10 junior boys’ volleyball player Jacob Bolzan on the eve of another NorWOSSA court sport campaign. “I’m pretty pumped up about getting things started,” he enthused. “We’ve been learning our positions […]
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Staff Local female soccer players will have a chance to get their “footy” fix indoors this winter as the Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer League holds registration tonight at 7 p.m. at the Fort Frances High School atrium. The league, which will get run every Wednesday from 7-10 p.m. starting Oct. […]
Arguably the most anticipated game of the boys’ high school hockey season, the annual battle between the Muskies and International Falls Broncos has been put on the backburner for this coming season. While Fort High athletic director Shane Beckett did say there will be a discussion about having both teams […]
Ted Brockie When it comes to breaking clay skeet targets, no one likes to leave them whole. Just as certainly, Len Noonan, soon to turn 76, can’t stand to leave a target in any other way but a thousand pieces. Consequently, Noonan has dominated the annual fall classic shoot-off at […]
Lucas Punkari With a season-opening game Oct. 12 against the visiting Ohio State Buckeyes edging ever closer, University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs’ forward Joe Basaraba is chomping at the bit to get his third NCAA hockey campaign underway. “Thing have really been starting to get rolling here lately,” Basaraba said. “We’ve […]
Lucas Punkari Although they know the chances of qualifying for the all-Ontarios are quite slim, with only the top two individual scores moving on, three members of the Muskie golf team are excited to be competing at the NWOSSAA championship tomorrow at the Beauty Bay Golf Course in Kenora. “The […]
Lucas Punkari One of the biggest factors that helps make the top race drivers become the very best in their level is the amount of seat time they get during a season. So when the Emo Speedway wraps up its schedule in early September, a number of locals head out […]
Lucas Punkari After watching the six other SIJHL teams begin the 2012/13 campaign last Friday night, the Fort Frances Lakers will get their regular-season slate underway tonight in Hoyt Lakes versus the Minnesota Iron Rangers. With training camp and the exhibition schedule behind them, both new and returning players alike […]
It will be partly cloudy tonight, with an overnight low of minus-one C (31 F) and northwest winds at five m.p.h., becoming calm. Tomorrow will be sunny and mild, with a high of 15 (59) and low around one (33). Expect mostly sunny skies again Thursday, with a high of […]
Staff The first-annual “Sticks & Stones” bonspiel, a combined event between the Fort Frances Curling Club and Kitchen Creek Golf Club slated for this weekend, has been cancelled. An issue with the circuit board in the ice plant at the curling club is the reason for the cancellation. The problem, […]
the OPP The OPP’s Underwater Search and Recovery Unit yesterday located the body of a 24-year-old Winnipeg man reported missing Saturday. The man was a passenger in a 14’ Lund boat on Gun Lake, south of Minaki, when it ran into waves and he was ejected. The operator of the […]
Duane Hicks The town will move forward with the next step in its budget process after council received requests to include funds for the International Tug-of-War and Fort Frances Meals on Wheels in its 2013 budget. Coun. Rick Wiedenhoeft said he would like to see council put aside funds in […]
