Dan Falloon Sight & Sound first baseman Derek McKinnon lunged towards the base to retire Vaughan Wilson of Barwick during the Rainy River District Fastball League final last Thursday evening at VanJura Park here. The host Wolves won 4-3 for their second-straight league crown over the Knights.
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Duane Hicks The public will be able to drop off recyclables 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at the recycle transfer station here later this year after town council approved a tender for an upgrades project there at a special meeting yesterday afternoon. Council awarded the tender to […]
Staff It appears Fort Frances’ attempt to be crowned the World Fishing Network’s “Ultimate Fishing Town” will meet a bitter end tomorrow afternoon. After nearly two weeks of public voting, the first round of the contest will wrap up tomorrow (Sept. 1) at 4 p.m. local time. As of press […]
Staff A man died yesterday while working at the Boise mill in International Falls. Emergency personnel were called to the mill shortly before 11 a.m. for a medical emergency after a man was found unresponsive. They arrived to find a man had died in an industrial accident. The man is […]
Press Release Kenora OPP officers, with the assistance of Kenora ambulance personnel, attended a Railway Street residence Sunday evening after receiving a report of an unresponsive male. Upon arriving at the residence, emergency personnel determined the male was deceased and notified the regional coroner’s office. Kenora OPP, with the assistance […]
Peggy Revell Bailey Jones and Cooper Witherspoon searched for their names on the class lists posted up at the new Robert Moore School this morning as students from across the district were ushered back into the classroom for the start of the new school year.
Duane Hicks Grade 1 student Tatum Glowasky eased into a desk in her new classroom during her first day back at school this morning at St. Michael’s. Kids across Rainy River District returned to school today.
Dan Falloon Heather Brosdahl of Cass Lake, Mn. showed off a bass during Friday’s weigh-in of the sixth-annual International Falls Bass Championship at Smokey Bear Park as partner Brian Brosdahl looked on. The duo finished the two-day event in 20th spot with a total of 20.16 pounds. Kenora’s Jeff Gustafson […]
Staff The fire hazard is sitting at “high” for the whole region, with “extreme” hazards in the southern portions of the Fort Frances and Dryden districts, Quetico Provincial Park, Thunder Bay and Nipigon districts, and north towards Geraldton and Nakina, the Ministry of Natural Resources reports. One new fire was […]
Peggy Revell Dana Kosowick took aim with her putter on the 18th hole at Kitchen Creek during yesterday’s third-annual golf scramble organized by the Muskie Sports Association, which was won by the foursome of Kevin Jackson, Brandon Sinclair, Alex Bruyere, and Ian Lockman with a score of 15-under. The event, […]
Duane Hicks Bill VanDrunen kick-started his 1990 Harley-Davidson Softail Springer before heading out on the highway Saturday morning for the local Alzheimer Society’s eighth-annual “Ride for Memories.” This year’s ride, which ended in Kenora that evening, saw a total of 140 riders raising $27,000—$7,000 of which was brought in by […]
Peggy Revell Amy Spicer, left, Cynthia Donald and Kari-Lynn Beckett were three of the many teachers busy Friday afternoon unpacking and getting classrooms in the new Robert Moore set up for the first day of school tomorrow. While workers will be coming in to complete the final construction at night […]
