Staff The Rainy River District Fastball League is set to resume its post-season tonight (weather permitting), with the playoff lives of four teams hanging in the balance. In the bottom half of the double-elimination playoff bracket, fifth-place Barwick is set to take on ninth-place Manitou. The other game sees eighth-place […]
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Staff Town council awarded the tender for the building of a wildlife control fence at the local airport during its regular meeting last night. The tender was awarded to Wilco Contractors Superior Inc. at an estimated cost of $381,743.38, which includes HST, a contingency allowance of $20,000, and with provisional […]
Zoey Duncan Light rain just before 8 p.m. yesterday led to a full double rainbow forming over the upper Rainy River looking east. The sun continued to shine throughout the showers and the rainbow lasted about 20 minutes, prompting some motorists on Front Street to slow down for a better […]
Zoey Duncan The Borderland Soccer League playoffs got off to a tumultuous start with a pair of semi-final upsets last night. Taggs Source for Sports, above, shocked first-place Boston Pizza 8-2 thanks to three goals apiece from Stephanie Mattson and Blaire Harnett while Courtney Roach netted the other two. In […]
Staff Town council will vote tonight on a bylaw to authorize the sale of municipal lands in the industrial park to K.J.’s Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Inc. The property in question—currently a vacant lot fronting on the north side of Sixth Street West—was set out by council for surplus, sale, […]
Staff More names are being thrown in the Kenora-Rainy River riding ring for this fall’s provincial election. Kenora Coun. Rod McKay has announced his intentions to run for the Progressive Conservatives—the only person who has sought the party’s nomination so far. Meanwhile, Jo Jo Holiday once again will be running […]
Staff Post-season play in the Borderland Soccer League is set to kick off tonight with a pair of games at St. Francis Field. On the men’s side, first-place Pharmasave (11-3-2) will square off against the last-place Rendez-Vous Voyageurs (2-14). In ladies’ action, top-seeded Boston Pizza (14-1-1) will battle fourth-ranked Taggs […]
the MNR Lightning caused most of the 36 new fires in the province Friday, including five reported in Fort Frances District, nine in Kenora District, and three in Dryden District. As of this morning, only one of those five new fires in the Fort Frances District continued to burn “under […]
Staff Four local atheletes took part in the 25th-annual Brewhouse Triathlon in Duluth over the weekend, with two besting their previous times and two trying the triathlon for the first time. Lori Green swam, ran, and biked her way to a 2:13:47 finish, shaving two full minutes off her first […]
Peggy Revell Onigaming First Nation youth Megan Bob and elder/band councillor Fred Kelly chatted as the new pontoon boat which the community has invested in sped out onto Crow Lake on Friday morning for its inaugural trip, where tobacco was offered at different sites along the lake. The new boat […]
Zoey Duncan Joe Ball avoided being tagged by Ben Whitburn as Braeden Webb, background, readied himself for a possible pass during a game of touch football yesterday. Members of last year’s Muskie football team will be playing Sunday afternoons starting at noon to work on fundamentals of the game, with […]
Peggy Revell Fort Frances Horticultural Society president Nadia Felix, left, and Vicky Wishart examined the beautiful flower arrangements that had been entered in this year’s flower and vegetable show Saturday at the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market here. Wishart actually took home two trophies—one for most points and the other for […]
