Dan Falloon Dave Black, a member of Rich Peri’s rink, was smooth out of the hack Sunday as the annual Fort Frances men’s bonspiel wrapped up. Peri eventually fell 5-2 to Adam Bolen in the ‘C’ final. Ken McKinnon took the ‘A’ final 6-3 over Tom Mayer while Ron Silver […]
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Duane Hicks Due to the very dry conditions this spring, the Fort Frances Fire & Rescue Service and all other municipal fire departments in Rainy River District have declared a ban on all open-air burning until conditions improve. Fort Frances Fire Chief Gerry Armstrong, who also is the district fire […]
A less-known effect of the so-called “great recession” that began last year is the major shift in Canadian consumers’ buying habits. They have switched some of their purchases from brand-name items to private-label goods. Consumer goods once were believed to be as recession-proof as any industry can be. Shoppers might […]
Dan Falloon The Borderland Soccer Association is staring at a number of issues heading into the upcoming season, and league president Tristan Hutton is encouraging members to pitch solutions. At the forefront is a referee shortage which Hutton feels, if unaddressed, could grind the men’s and women’s leagues to a […]
Staff A Five-Mile Dock Road residence was destroyed in an early-morning fire yesterday. “Nobody was in the house at the time, it was unoccupied, so we had a full force of 12 of our firefighters and three of our fire trucks go and respond,” noted Couchiching deputy fire chief Christine […]
the OPP Members of the Fort Frances OPP detachment, along with members of the Northwest Region Crime Unit and Community Drug Action Team, seized a substantial amount of Oxycontin pills from a local man last Tuesday (March 23). As a result of the investigation, police seized 200 80 mg Oxycontin […]
Duane Hicks Charred remains are all that’s left of a Five-Mile Dock Road residence that was consumed by fire early yesterday morning.
Dan Falloon Mark Lussier of the Rendez-Vous went up for a shot against Boston Pizza in the championship game of the local Monday night men’s league at Fort High. Lussier scored 29 points but the Vous were denied a third-straight title as BP emerged 66-59 in overtime. Taggs beat the […]
Duane Hicks Harrison switching positions There will be a new manager at the local AbitibiBowater paper mill in the near future after general manager John Harrison last week took a position elsewhere in the company. Jean-Philippe Cote, director of Public Affairs and Government Relations for AbitibiBowater, said Harrison announced internally […]
Staff Lorne Jackson was on the wrong side of revenge at the Northern Ontario mixed provincial curling championships in Kenora over the weekend. Jackson and his rink of third Kathie Jackson, second Todd Moxham, and lead Christine Sinclair had dropped Robbie Gordon (Idylwylde) to the brink of elimination with an […]
Staff The semi-final that few expected finally gave way to a championship series nearly everyone saw coming. The Fort Frances Lakers saw their yeoman-like post-season run come to an end here Friday night with a 3-1 loss to the Dryden Ice Dogs. The Ice Dogs took the series 4-2 and […]
Staff Tirzah Keffer’s luck ran out in the quarter-finals at the all-Ontarios in Toronto. The first Muskie girls’ rink to make it to OFSAA, which also included third Samantha Mueller, second Carley Busch, and lead Taylor Hartlin, were bounced 7-2 on Friday afternoon by Timiskaming, the eventual bronze medallists. Keffer […]
