Lucas Punkari Following a 4-3 shootout loss to the Dryden Ice Dogs here Jan. 30, Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan stressed the importance of his team being more consistent heading into the playoffs. After this past weekend’s home games—a 4-2 win over the Ice Dogs on Friday […]
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Lucas Punkari Looking only at their 11-0-0-1 record, it might be safe to assume the Muskie boys’ hockey team had a fairly easy time of things in NorWOSSA league play this season en route to yet another regular-season crown. However, it’s been anything but a cake-walk for the black-and-gold as […]
Lucas Punkari Only one team can say they’ve beaten the Dryden Eagles in NorWOSSA girls’ hockey play so far this season. And that’s the Fort Frances Muskies. The black-and-gold earned that honour Friday night in Dryden with a narrow 2-1 victory. “I think the shots ended up being 37-34 for […]
Duane Hicks The town again will try to get district municipalities to help pay to operate the Fort Frances Airport, but this time on a fixed contribution basis. Last year, district municipalities were asked to consider cost-sharing based on each community’s percentage of the overall population. This means they would […]
Heather Latter Couple celebrates 70 years together Gilbert Gillies wrote these words to his fiancée, Ruby, back on Nov. 17, 1941: “I love you more and more and miss you more as the days go by and my love and ours is going to last throughout the years.” And lasted […]
Lucas Punkari A year ago, Zacharia Warkentin played the role of second on Jordan Potter’s Port Arthur Curling Club rink (Thunder Bay) that went unbeaten en route to capturing the Northern Ontario Bantam boys’ title. This past weekend at the Fort Frances Curling Club, the 16-year-old was skip as he […]
Duane Hicks Public meeting slated Feb. 15 Carrying through with part of the strategic plan mayor and town council developed last year, the Sister Kennedy Centre board of management is seeking input on how to make the centre the focal point of all services for seniors. It has scheduled a […]
Duane Hicks Town council will hold off doing anything about the vacant Rainy Lake Hotel until a local task force makes its recommendation. In a report received by council at its budget meeting Monday, Chief Building Official Rick Hallam noted that while the sale, remediation, and restoration of the building […]
Duane Hicks The 2012 preliminary capital budget will be a lean one, having been cut by more than half since the last meeting. Town council received an updated preliminary capital budget Monday, which had been trimmed by $4.6 million since the Jan. 16 committee of the whole meeting. Mayor and […]
Heather Latter This year’s “Relay for Life” here will be held June 15 at Fort Frances High School, not June 29 as originally planned. The reason for the change stemmed from the last weekend in June leading into the Canada Day holiday weekend. “We were running into conflicts with volunteers […]
Lucas Punkari For seven local hockey players, the next two months will be among the most exciting times they’ve ever had. Ian Tookenay, Hunter Koles, Lauren Vold, Parker Orchard, Noah Loveday, Cole Tymkin, and Brett Hahkala will represent Fort Frances on this year’s N.W.O. All-Stars PeeWee ‘AAA’ squad, which will […]
Lucas Punkari Following a 4-3 shootout loss to the Dryden Ice Dogs here Jan. 30, Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan stressed the importance of his team being more consistent heading into the playoffs. After this past weekend’s home games—a 4-2 win over the Ice Dogs on Friday […]
