Dan Falloon Fort High’s Justin Anderson put up a jump shot against a pair of Trojan defenders in Friday afternoon’s 48-41 win to open the best-of-three NWOSSAA final here. But the Thunder Bay champs won both games Saturday—39-35 in Game 2 and then 50-49 in Game 3—to earn a trip […]
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The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Canadians are all but certain to enjoy historically-low interest rates for at least another four months after the Bank of Canada passed up on its opportunity to signal a policy change today. The central bank acknowledged during its scheduled policy rate announcement that the economy is improving—better […]
Duane Hicks FORT FRANCES—Fort Frances native Adam Armit and fellow Fanshawe College student Joel Popoff of Schreiber are taking a shot at winning up to $250,000 after having submitted a video in the Doritos “Viralocity” online contest. And as of Tuesday, their video was sitting at first place. The contest […]
Staff Whether or not students will be attending Robert Moore School here this September—or a school by another name—is set to be decided at the Rainy River District School Board’s monthly meeting tonight. Two suggestions have been put forward by the naming committee for the school currently being built to […]
Peggy Revell In her Grade 10 Career Studies class, Sara Empey pulled up “Moodle”—one of the many computer programs which students and staff at Fort Frances High School are using to improve and expand learning. Some of the many other technological tools being used include board-wide video on demand, interactive […]
Peggy Revell To mark the start of Red Cross Month, Fort Frances Mayor Roy Avis joined Shana Hansson, district branch manager for the Dryden & District branch of the Canadian Red Cross, to raise the organization’s flag at the Civic Centre yesterday.
Dan Falloon The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team shouldn’t have any trouble remembering the Trojans. But that’s not to say the Trojans won’t have some fleeting memories of the black-and-gold, as well. Sir Winston Churchill (Thunder Bay) emerged with a thrilling 2-1 victory in the best-of-three NWOSSAA final here, including […]
Dan Falloon Girls ousted by Broncos Being able to stymie Rams is one thing. Clipping Eagles will be another. The Muskie boys’ hockey team swept the Red Lake Rams 2-0 in their best-of-three NorWOSSA semi-final to advance to the league final against the Dryden Eagles. The black-and-gold pummelled Red Lake […]
Staff There was only one opponent that Judy LaBelle couldn’t conquer at the senior women’s provincial playdowns in Blind River over the weekend. LaBelle and her rink of third Mary Beth Tkachuk, second Maureen Thomson, and lead Trudy Badiuk fell twice to Sudbury’s Vicky Barrett, including 9-2 in yesterday’s final, […]
Duane Hicks The Rainy River Future Development Corp. is gearing up for its seventh-annual customer service challenge—and district businesses can now sign up to participate. RRFDC officer manager Cynde Milette said those businesses interested in signing up can contact the RRFDC at 274-3276. The deadline to register is Friday, March […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers and Sioux Lookout Flyers had nothing to play for, standings-wise, in their regular-season finale there Friday night. But each team still had some fairly concrete motivations heading into the game. The fifth-place Lakers (14-33-5) were looking to halt a four-game losing streak before the post-season […]
Peggy Revell Getting into character as the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivellow, Fort High student Reece Brown pushed Seymour Krelborn (David Loney) back into the dentist’s chair while rehearsing a scene from “Little Shop of Horrors” yesterday at the Townshend Theatre. Muskie Theatre will be presenting the dark comedy/musical on April […]
