Lucas Punkari The Muskie boys’ hockey team outclassed their opponents yesterday afternoon at the Emo-La Vallee Community Centre, cruising to a 12-2 romp over the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) in exhibition action. “We kind of knew what we were getting into here,” Muskie head coach Shawn Jourdain after the […]
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Joey Payeur If Mike Badiuk doesn’t want to fall short on his bold predictions, he and his curling mates need to start rocking the house in a big hurry. The Devlin resident is playing third for skip Cody Johnston’s rink at the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors curling championships, which […]
Joey Payeur One shot away from a gold medal, the Fort Frances Snipers ended up absorbing the last bullet. Luke Krause stunned the home crowd with the game-winner at 4:53 of overtime to give the Baudette Bears a 3-2 victory over the host Snipers in the gold-medal game of a […]
Joey Payeur Three games, three nights, three losses? There was nothing charming about that concept to the Fort Frances Lakers. Coming off a pair of bitter losses to the league-leading Wisconsin Wilderness the previous two night, the Lakers hit early and often to subdue the host Duluth Clydesdales 4-2 in […]
Staff The Town of Fort Frances has rallied district support for the concept of having the municipal airport here deemed a regional one. At the annual meeting of the Rainy River District Municipal Association on Saturday in Stratton, membership approved a resolution put forth by the Town of Fort Frances, […]
Joey Payeur In many annals of sports strategy, logic holds that to be the man, you have to beat the man—or woman, as the case may be. That proved to be too much for ask for the Tracy Horgan rink from the Idylwylde Golf and Country Club in Sudbury, which […]
Duane Hicks With the nomination deadline for the 15th-annual Bell Business Awards having closed Wednesday, a selection committee now faces the task of choosing the winners in 11 categories. Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce manager Anthony Mason said he’s received 68 nominations and now is in the process contacting those […]
There were more winners in the Rainy River District Mutual Aid Association’s weekly cash calendar draw. Winning $30 for Jan. 9-15 were Darren Angus and Andrea Hayes (Emo), Brenda Roy (Atikokan), Fred Houlden (Winnipeg), Mike Menard (Englehart, Ont.), Roland and Beulah Larocque (Emo), Terry Lee (Stratton), and Curtis Jourdain (Fort […]
the OPP The Fort Frances Community Drug Action Team, in conjunction with Rainy River District OPP detachment officers, conducted a vehicle stop on Highway 11 in Emo on Tuesday. As a result of the police investigation, the vehicle’s driver and passenger were arrested and found in possession of 2,380 grams […]
Peggy Revell St. Michael’s student Kennedi Gosselin stretched out some icky, sticky slimy “toxic goo” that pupils made by reading a recipe as part of the nation-wide “Family Literacy Day” yesterday. Families dropped by the school for the day—established to encourage families learning and reading together—to join in with students […]
Submitted Stevie-Lee Langford of the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs fought for the puck against a University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs player during action last weekend at Bronco Arena in International Falls. The Voyageurs swept the two-game set, winning 6-2 on Saturday and then 5-3 on Sunday. Ranked #1 with […]
Duane Hicks The City of International Falls is hoping to get U.S. President Barack Obama to visit Borderland this July 2 for the international tug-of-war and dedication of the new James Oberstar Riverfront Complex, which is located across from the Sorting Gap Marina here. In an interview yesterday, International Falls […]
