Dan Falloon Tirzah Keffer and her Muskie girls’ rink said they were just happy to have made it to the all-Ontarios in Toronto last week. But looking at some of their results, it’s a little hard to believe. Keffer and her rink of third Samantha Mueller, second Carley Busch, and […]
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Dan Falloon With a roller coaster 2009-10 season just minutes behind them, all the Fort Frances Lakers could do was look back and gasp in awe at what they had accomplished. “If you’d have said a month or six weeks ago that we’d be playing in Game 6 of the […]
Peggy Revell Angel Spade and Hayden Allam were having a blast in the big pool that was brought in for the beach party at the Zaagi-idiwin Aboriginal Head Start program here last Wednesday. Besides beating the winter “blahs” with a splash in the pool, the youngsters also played frisbee, limboed, […]
Staff Melissa Mosely spoke with Brad Hogan and Wednesday Galusha of Fort Floral during Northwoods Gallery and Gifts’ annual bridal show last Wednesday night. The well-attended event provided brides with a complete range of wedding information as well as a chance to win a wide variety of special door prizes.
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 […]
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 […]
