Staff The two local players competing at the Canadian Junior Squash Championships in Calgary both met tough competition in their opening matches yesterday (April 22). Angel McCormack, playing in the girls’ under-13 division, lost her first best-of-five match 3-0 to Calgary’s Hannah Treleaven (11-6, 11-4, and 11-6) to drop to […]
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Staff Fort Frances Power Corp. customers will see a noticeable jump in their bills starting next month, with the most recent change being a 2.5 percent increase to electricity distribution rates announced by the Ontario Energy Board on Tuesday. According to a table provided by the OEB of estimated impacts […]
Dan Falloon Fort High player Emily Drouin tried to head off the Rainy River attack in exhibition action at the St. Francis Sports Fields last night. The girls’ team won the preseason game 3-0, while the boys’ team tied Rainy River 1-1. The girls start their season on May 5 […]
Vocal Division Tuesday, April 20 •CLASS V126 First–Kennedy Latimer Second–Taylor Shouldice •CLASS V138F First–Emily Turcotte •CLASS V138M First–Nelson Bragg •CLASS V139 First—Katelyn Shortreed Second–Rebecca Sokoliuk •CLASS V108 First–Emily Turcotte Second–Nelson Bragg •CLASS V109 First–Katelyn Shortreed •CLASS V110 First–Lauren Gurski •CLASS V180 First–Lauren Gurski Second– Nelson Bragg, Emily Turcotte, and Rebecca […]
Staff Fort Frances OPP is continuing to seek public assistance in locating Fort Frances resident Caitlin Henderson. The 16-year-old was last seen at 9 p.m. on Monday (April 19) when she left her residence on her bicycle and did not return. Police determined her bicycle route included the waterfront. Henderson […]
Staff Fort High birders had a dominant day in Kenora at the NorWOSSA championships yesterday (April 21). Every local entry advanced to Monday’s NWOSSAA championships in Atikokan, where the senior players will battle for a chance to represent the region at OFSAA in Stratford from May 5-8. Rory Bagacki won […]
Peggy Revell Grade 1 students Martina Woods, Connor Dent and Abby Roach held up the environmentally-themed paper bags that they—and all students at St. Michael’s School—have decorated over the past week and which will be given out today at Einar’s Foods for Earth Day.
Staff Students with the Northwest Catholic District School Board worked together to raise more than $2,700 to help out earthquake-ravaged Haiti as part of their Lenten project. Students at St. Francis School here raised a total of $ $1,090.45. Those at St. Patrick’s (Atikokan) raised $152, with St. Joseph’s students […]
Dan Falloon Another year, another trip to the Canadian Junior Squash Championships for a pair of local players. But both Anniss Seid and Angel McCormack are looking to improve on their 2009 experience at the nationals when they were held at Niagara-on-the-Lake. This year’s showdown runs April 22-25 in Calgary. […]
Dan Falloon Joe Basaraba has seen NHL scouts milling around his games with the Shattuck-St. Mary’s Sabres this past season, but he hasn’t been letting the big-league buzz get to him. “Some teams have been showing interest. I’ve been getting phone calls and e-mails, stuff like that,” noted Basaraba, who […]
Dan Falloon Local photographer Shannon Curtis has taken a picture that leaves those who walk by taken aback. Curtis, of Curtis Denture Clinic here, snapped a shot of a buck staring straight ahead at Sleeping Giant Provincial Park near Thunder Bay last summer, and is donating it to Ducks Unlimited […]
Dan Falloon Many of the players on the Muskie badminton team have been around the block before—and now they’re looking to strut around it more confidently. The girls’ doubles pairing of Kimika Alexander and Chelsea Carlson qualified for the all-Ontarios last spring in Sudbury, as did boys’ singles player Rory […]
