Dan Falloon It didn’t seem like the most promising way to break a three-game losing streak. But the Muskie girls’ hockey team gladly will take Tuesday night’s decisive 5-2 win over the first-place Dryden Eagles here as a momentum-builder entering the playoffs. “Our confidence is hopefully going to be a […]
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Staff The annual “Community Chest” benefit dinner is coming up Sunday, March 7 and with only 30-40 tickets still available, those wanting to attend and support the cause had better get them before it’s too late. “If anybody’s interested, they had best buy them soon,” warned Linda Hamilton, a member […]
Press Release The St. Mary’s Youth Group will host its annual “Development and Peace” soup and bun fundraiser on Saturday, March 6 at 6 p.m. and again Sunday, March 7 at noon. Bread baked by the youth group, under the watchful eye of Helen and Ray Cousineau, as well as […]
Press Release This Sunday (Feb. 28), more than a dozen former NHL and Olympic hockey players, managers, and coaches will gather at the Thunderbird Lodge on Rainy Lake for the first-ever event of its kind in Minnesota. The Minnesota Hockey Legends “meet-and-greet” will begin at noon and is open to […]
Staff Chuck McPherson will be returning for another term as chief following Couchiching First Nation’s election Feb. 18. Also in the running for chief were Allan Yerxa and Bill Perrault. Meanwhile, out of the 20 candidates running for council, voters elected Dan Mainville, Christine Jourdain, Dick Bird, Eugene McPherson, Ed […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER—Canada’s Olympic team take note: the second man to walk on the moon says you don’t always need to be first to be successful. Buzz Aldrin, one of many celebrities who has come to Vancouver to take in the Olympics, says too much emphasis is placed on […]
Robin McCormick The students and staff at Crossroads School are organizing a number of events throughout the next few weeks to help the Pressenger family who lost their home to a fire over the weekend. Any community members who wish to make a monetary donation to help the family may […]
Press Release Ladies of the Br. #29 Legion Ladies Auxiliary met on Wednesday, Feb 10 with 32 members present. Reports were heard from the committees. Sergeant-at-Arms Yvonne Chambers reported the colour party attended funerals for two members. Our local Legion auxiliary has been asked to march in the colours at […]
Press Release NDP energy critic Peter Tabuns is welcoming a new report from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance that shows the McGuinty government could shut down the province’s coal plants today without compromising electricity supply, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preventing hundreds of pollution-related deaths a year. “This report […]
Press Release A Winnipeg man was fined $3,250 for purchasing Ontario resident licences to hunt moose. Albert Taylor pleaded guilty to making a false statement in a document to obtain a licence and to hunting moose without a licence. Court heard that in September, 2007, Taylor moved from Ontario to […]
Editor’s note: The following was written by Miss Violet Stewart in June, 1943. It was submitted by the Rainy River District Women’s Institute Museum in Emo in conjunction with Heritage Week 2010. This year’s theme was “Our Changing Landscape.” Alberton Municipality, of which Crozier is part, held its first council […]
Staff The provincial government is touting the extension of municipal services to Emo’s industrial park, including more funding for the project. The $69,171 from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. comes in addition to the previously-announced $121,900 for bringing municipal services to the industrial park. “It’s very crucial to the […]
