Joey Payeur With just 75 spectators looking on and only one penalty called in the game, one could forgive the Fort Frances Lakers and host Duluth Clydesdales if they believed they were in the middle of some meaningless pre-season scrimmage on Sunday. With the only atmosphere coming from the odd […]
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Peggy Revell Love watching YouTube? Downloading the latest songs from iTunes? Watching news reports from around the world? Videoconferencing with relatives thousands of miles away? Have you signed up for Netflix? Avid Internet users in the district could be paying a lot more for access starting March 1 thanks to […]
Duane Hicks The Town of Fort Frances is keeping up its battle against the mountains of snow that have accumulated here since the holidays—and fast on its way to spending more than it budgeted for. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said yesterday that the town is now in Week […]
Peggy Revell Rainy River cattle have landed in Kazakhstan. Ten Herefords originally from Cornell Farms in La Vallee were among the 400 cattle in a first shipment to the former Soviet republic at the end of December as Eastern European countries look to regenerate herds depleted since the fall of […]
Ken Johnston Members of the Rainy River District Municipal Association should be pleased to know they will be paying less this year to the Northwestern Health Unit. “Our board has decided to leave the per capita [levy] at $54.33 again this year,” said health unit CAO Mark Perrault. However, the […]
Duane Hicks With an eye to look at energy cost-savings, as well as possibly generating revenue from solar energy, the Town of Fort Frances is developing a community sustainability plan. Heading up the development of that plan will be sustainability co-ordinator intern Travis Rob, who was hired two weeks ago. […]
Ken Johnston There were some big top questions on Saturday about the future of the district’s giant events tent. Purchased more than a decade ago by the Rainy River Future Development Corp. and recently refurbished at a cost of $70,000, the future of the tent now is in limbo. RRFDC […]
Joey Payeur The brass ring was in reach for Jenna Enge, but she and her rinkmates weren’t quite able to reach up and grab it. Enge, a former Muskie curler who hails from Devlin, played second for Tracy Horgan’s rink from the Idylwylde Golf and Country Club in Sudbury at […]
Joey Payeur The ’52 Canadians Arena has been home to many thrilling hockey moments—and another one took place Sunday. Sadly for the home crowd, it was the visiting team experiencing the thrills when the dust had settled. Luke Krause scored the title clincher at 4:53 of overtime to give the […]
Joey Payeur Never mind duelling banjos; time for duelling hat tricks. The Muskie girls’ hockey team carried the game early but the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) were on fire when it counted, wiping out a 3-1 third-period deficit en route to a 4-3 overtime victory in the bronze-medal game […]
Lucas Punkari As the NorWOSSA regular-season enters its final weeks of play, the Muskie boys’ hockey team was looking to fine-tune a few things in an exhibition showdown with the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) on Sunday afternoon in Emo. Skating away with a decisive 12-2 drubbing, it certainly seems […]
Peggy Revell As part of “Family Literacy Day,” Isabelle Tanguay practised her letters and asked Calleigh Councillor for card during a game of “Go Fish” with Amelia Tanguay and Zaagi-idiwin Aboriginal Head Start program teacher Charity McMahon last Wednesday. The annual day (Jan. 27) was celebrated locally at schools and […]
