Dan Falloon The Muskie boys’ hockey team swept their way to St. Catharines. After brooming the Red Lake Rams in the best-of-three NorWOSSA semi-finals, the black-and-gold did the same to the Dryden Eagles in the final to advance to the all-Ontarios in St. Catharines on March 23-26. Fort High opened […]
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Duane Hicks The town will take another look at allowing wedding receptions at Sunny Cove Camp after La Place Rendez-Vous owner Paul Noonan told council Monday evening that they shouldn’t be competing with the commercial sector. Noonan said while he fully supported the town’s decision to acquire Sunny Cove Camp […]
Peggy Revell It’s no surprise that an artist would be the one to transform a simple plan for a paintball safety wall into a full blown public arts project. But that’s exactly what local artist Eric Keast is planning to do. “I want to bring art to the people, I […]
Duane Hicks Annual event tops $15,000 The annual “Community Chest” benefit dinner held here Sunday evening once again was a success, raising $15,053 to continue to aid local families who need help to cover medical costs. But none of it could have happened without the hard work of volunteers, which […]
Duane Hicks Making for some good news in what is proving to be a tough budget year, the Town of Fort Frances will continue to get federal gas tax dollars over the next four years. On Feb. 19, the town received an amending municipal funding agreement from the Association of […]
Dan Falloon The past two weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind for Mary Spencer. The 25-year-old product of Cape Croker First Nation just earned the right to represent Canada in women’s boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. Spencer, who boxes in the 75-kg division, is […]
Dan Falloon Terry McClymont can take credit for starting up a college—only without the essays and the deadlines. The Kenora native has launched a website called “Faculty of Fishing” (http://www.facultyoffishing.com), which offers two live courses (Fishing 1 and Fishing 2) so far, with four more planned. The current lessons are […]
Dan Falloon Sophie Potvin-Begin and Michael Nelson picked an opportune time to blow their previous personal best out of the water. The pair scored a 27.74 en route to capturing the juvenile pairs free skate gold medal at the Ontario Winter Games in Huntsville. Their highest previous score for the […]
Staff Team Northwestern didn’t bow down in the face of stiff competition during the squash tournament at the Ontario Winter Games in Sudbury over the weekend. The eight-member squad, comprised of five players from the local Sunset Country Squash Club, entered the competition ranked seventh of the nine teams but […]
Dan Falloon After struggling in their opener, the Isaac Keffer rink came to play at the Ontario Winter Games in Gravenhurst over the weekend. Keffer and his rink of third Cody Ossachuk, second Cody Heyens, and lead Ian Grant lost 12-3 to Jack Lindsay (St. George’s Golf and Country Club) […]
Dan Falloon The Fort Frances Lakers are keeping things in perspective. Even though the Lakers lost an excellent chance at taking a 3-1 lead over the K&A Wolverines in their first-round playoff series, head coach Wayne Strachan didn’t feel drastic changes were in order for his team. “We need to […]
Dan Falloon Theoren Fleury knows a thing or two about overcoming adversity. While the former NHL’er had a number of memorable on-ice moments throughout his 15-year career, there were several lows that began early on as a youngster growing up in Russell, Man. The 41-year-old won a Stanley Cup in […]
