Peggy Revell The Northwestern Health Unit is preparing an education campaign to help in the fight against bedbugs. “Basically, we’ve been aware of the situation like everybody else at the outset,” Dr. James Arthurs, medical officer of health for the local health unit, said about rising number of reports of […]
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Dan Falloon The last time the Fort Frances Lakers made the CJHL’s top 20 rankings, things didn’t go so well for the local Junior ‘A’ hockey squad. After being listed at #17 for the week of Oct. 25, the Lakers promptly lost a pair of games—and didn’t look great doing […]
Duane Hicks The Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board, which runs the ambulance services in Rainy River District, is limiting its non-emergency ambulance transfers. As opposed to emergency transfers, such as when a person is injured in an accident and has to be rushed to hospital, non-emergency ambulance transfers […]
Duane Hicks It was an afternoon to share heartfelt appreciation and more than a few laughs. Friends, family members, volunteers, and co-workers gathered Saturday at the New Beginnings Fellowship Church here to give thanks to Teresa Hazel, director of the Riverside Foundation for Health Care and communications officer for Riverside […]
Duane Hicks The town is looking for community input on a draft of a new “blue box” recycling plan. As such, an open house has been scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 30 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Civic Centre. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said the town has received a […]
Staff The ongoing battle against substance abuse is being highlighted this week as district communities and organizations mark National Addictions Awareness Week as well as the Ontario-wide Drug Awareness Week. The week kicked off with Rainy River First Nations holding a community march Sunday afternoon, with those in attendance showing […]
Peggy Revell With Christmas drawing near, Family & Children’s Services here is hoping the community once again will help make the season brighter as its annual “Adopt an Angel” campaign gets underway. “We’re looking forward to everybody adopting an ‘angel’ and making a child’s Christmas happy,” Debra Bruyere said about […]
Dan Falloon The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team was oh-so-close to the result it had been hoping for. But a gold-medal showing on home court just wasn’t in the cards for the black-and-gold as they fell 38-36 to Dryden in the NorWOSSA final here last Wednesday. Fort High, which went […]
Dan Falloon In the end, the Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team did record another third-place finish at the NorWOSSA playoffs. And even though their semi-final loss here last Wednesday was a relatively swift sweep at the hands of the Kenora Broncos (26-24, 25-19, and 25-16), a number of positives will […]
Dan Falloon The Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team certainly used home court to its advantage at the NorWOSSA playoffs last Wednesday. The black-and-gold won six of seven sets they played, sweeping the Kenora Broncos 25-19, 25-21, and 27-25 in the morning semi-final before rebounding from a 25-20 loss in the […]
Dan Falloon The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team used its press to impress at the NorWOSSA playoffs here last Wednesday. The black-and-gold busted out the press in both the semi-final and final, first downing the Kenora Broncos 21-15 before shutting down the Dryden Eagles 36-29 to earn their second-straight NorWOSSA […]
Dan Falloon It wasn’t the start to the season that any members of the Muskie girls’ hockey team had envisioned. And yet a season-opening 3-2 loss to the Red Lake Rams became reality at the Ice For Kids Arena here Saturday night. The Muskies (0-1) fell behind early at the […]
