Dave Ogilvie Emo Youth Soccer will be holding registration for the upcoming season next Tuesday to Thursday (March 8-10) from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Emo arena The program is for boys and girls in JK-Grade 8, and runs from 6:30-7:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday for all divisions. Registration costs […]
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Staff With their seasons on the line last night, the two Muskie hockey teams had different outcomes. The Muskie boys advanced to the NorWOSSA final after downing the visiting Red Lake Rams 6-2 in the third-and-deciding game of their semi-final series. Nick Jourdain led the way with two goals and […]
Lucas Punkari Having already won tournaments in Emo and Dryden earlier this season, the local Lakewood Tire Eagles PeeWee girls’ hockey team was looking to complete a trifecta of first-place finishes this past weekend on home ice. But after a quick start, the Eagles ran into a brick wall in […]
Joey Payeur A plan to deliver some payback turned out to be as good as gold for the St. Francis Sentinels girls’ basketball team. The Sentinels downed the Riverview Royals (Rainy River) 17-12 in the final of the Rainy River District Athletic Association Grade 8 girls’ regional basketball championship Saturday […]
Joey Payeur And the Academy Award for best performance in a cliffhanger is . . . Well, the voters probably could call it a tie. But the St. Francis Sentinels were far less concerned about winning an Oscar than defending a championship. Showing a little true grit of their own, […]
Staff The Fort Frances Thunderhawks were in Kenora on the weekend to take on the host Thistles in a pair of games as both teams gear up for this year’s Allan Cup there next month. Unfortunately for the T’hawks, they came out on the losing end in both contests—falling 5-1 […]
Staff Fort Frances Aquanauts Donovan Taylor and Adam Stromberg came away with medals around their necks at the 2011 Short Course Provincial Championships last weekend in Nepean (near Ottawa). Participating in his first-ever provincial swim meet, Stromberg earned silver in the boy’s 12-and-under 50m freestyle event. He also nabbed bronze […]
Staff A Stanley Cup champion will be vying for a different trophy here this summer. Atlanta Thrashers’ defenceman Dustin Byfuglien, who won Lord Stanley’s mug last season as a member of the Chicago Blackhawks, this week entered the annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship coming up in July. Born in […]
Staff A Stanley Cup champion will be vying for a different trophy here this summer. Atlanta Thrashers’ defenceman Dustin Byfuglien, who won Lord Stanley’s mug last season as a member of the Chicago Blackhawks, this week entered the annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship coming up in July. Born in […]
Peggy Revell By a 4-2 vote last night, the Rainy River District School Board found newly-elected trustee David Kircher had breached confidentiality, but current trustees remain outraged over the outgoing school board’s actions to amend senior administration contracts at its final meeting. “Bottom line, if I’m sanctioned, I certainly think […]
Duane Hicks Starting in 2008, the province began uploading various programs it previously had downloaded to the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board, reducing some of the DSSAB’s program costs and, theoretically, the levy amount district municipalities should have to pay. But the Town of Fort Frances feels it […]
Lucas Punkari It wasn’t the results they wanted but the experience of vying for a provincial crown on home ice was something Judy LaBelle and Roz Broman certainly will remember. Competing in the 2011 Cameco senior provincial playdowns at the Fort Frances Curling Club last week, Broman missed out on […]
