Staff The local under-14 club volleyball program put up a solid fight in its first competitive tournament. The program split its girls into two teams for a tournament in Portage la Prairie, Man. over the weekend. Team #2 won six of 10 sets over the weekend while Team #1 captured […]
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Staff Donovan Taylor held his own against a contingent of swimmers in Winnipeg, including some members of the University of Manitoba swim team. The 15-year-old Aquanaut came away from the Golden Plains Invitational with five medals—a silver and four bronze—out of his nine events. Over the course of the weekend, […]
Dan Falloon A year after winning the East St. Paul Summer Soccer Classic’s ‘B’ flight in the first year of the program, the Emo under-13 boys’ squad is looking to expand its roster and gear up for another run. Tryouts for the team, coached by Martin Williams, are slated for […]
Dan Falloon The Muskie boys’ soccer team came home with a title—‘C’-side champions—at a tournament in Kenora over the weekend. But coach Shane Beckett felt his troops returned with something much more valuable—a better realization of the effort it will take to repeat as NorWOSSA champs. Fort High stonewalled a […]
Dan Falloon The opening of the 2010 season hasn’t exactly been kind to the Muskie girls’ soccer team. After five games of NorWOSSA and tournament action, the black-and-gold has yet to record a win. They were looking to change that today (May 12) as NorWOSSA regular-season action resumed in Dryden […]
Duane Hicks Library patrons had better be sure to stock up on books, DVDs, and other materials this weekend as the Fort Frances Public Library will be closed May 17-31 so staff and volunteers can make the move to the new facility adjacent to the Memorial Sports Centre. Chief librarian […]
Peggy Revell Opponents to the proposed “run-of-river” hydroelectric generating stations on the Namakan River are hoping information gathered from a nine-day observation of lake sturgeon at the High Falls site in late April will increase the level of environmental assessment required by the Ontario government before the project proceeds. As […]
Dan Falloon Three Muskie badminton players are waiting for their chance to strike. Rory Bagacki, competing in the boys’ singles division, and the girls’ doubles tandem of Chelsea Carlson and Kimika Alexander both bowed out in the ‘B’ flight at the all-Ontarios in Stratford last week. But since Bagacki and […]
Duane Hicks After going for decades without having to pay for sewer and water service, churches in Fort Frances will have start doing so starting Sept. 1. Town council approved a report from Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown here Monday evening, stating that churches will be billed as “residential […]
Peggy Revell Hope, survival, and a call to stand up against bullying and injustice everywhere was the message Holocaust survivor Eva Olsson brought with her to Fort Frances High School on Monday morning. “What I’m hoping for is [for people] to not to take things for granted, and I’m also […]
Duane Hicks “Smart meters” in Fort Frances are expected to go online later this year, but “time of use” rates won’t come into effect until sometime next year, according to the Fort Frances Power Corp. “The provincial government has legislated that all residential and small commercial electricity consumers in Ontario […]
Duane Hicks The Fort Frances Curling Club is asking for a little more time to pay the first instalment of an outstanding tax bill to the town. The club owes the town more than $30,000, and the first of five $6,100 annual payments is due July 31. The other payments […]
