Mitch Calvert On a night when the stars of the Rainy River District Fastball League took to the field at VanJura Ball Park here last night, Bill Copenace shown the brightest with a pair of home runs to pace Team One to a 10-3 victory. Team Two actually jumped out […]
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Mitch Calvert If you were born with a disability, the world of sports was something you viewed solely as an outsider. Sure, you could cheer for a brother or sister from the stands, but you certainly wouldn’t have your own jersey or teammates to call your own. Until now, that […]
Mitch Calvert Steve Arpin made a good first impression as a member of Venturini Motorsports on Saturday en route to a fourth-place finish at the Pennsylvania 200 from Pocono Raceway. It was the Fort Frances native’s best finish on the ARCA RE/MAX Series since a fifth-place showing at the Tim […]
Staff The Muskie football team will soon be making a return to the gridiron for training camp, tentatively scheduled to start Aug. 24. “[A later start] should help us get more guys into training camp,” offensive coordinator Andrew George conceded. The camp will run Monday-Thursday evenings beginning at 6 p.m. […]
Mitch Calvert A plan to bring a senior ‘A’ men’s hockey team to the area is still very much alive. “We’re still putting a budget together,” organizer Dean Bruyere said. “Having a hard time getting ice-time here in Fort Frances, but I’m sitting on my hands waiting with how the […]
Mitch Calvert With the all-star game commencing last night (see front section for results) and the playoffs just around the corner (beginning Aug. 11), the local Rainy River District Fastball League is officially heating up. A few make-up games are still to be played, but there won’t be much jockeying […]
Heather Latter Gage Mitchell, who is almost two-years-old, stopped by the Fort Frances Museum with his dad yesterday morning to check out some of the exhibits there. The upstairs features permanent displays focussing on the Rainy River District, while the downstairs level is currently featuring an exhibit called “At the […]
Heather Latter Sydney Kellar, centre, seen here with her dad, Donald Kellar, was the first-place winner of Beta Sigma Phi-Alpha Upsilon chapter’s “Bass Baby” contest. The second-place winner was Khadim Lawson, left, with mom, Jennifer Lawson, while the third-place baby was Shayna Shute, with her mom, Randi Fulford. They received […]
Dave Ogilvie Logan Teeple, far right, won the popular watermelon eating contest for contestants five and under during the Chapple Heritage Days celebration at the Both farm on Saturday. Each participant in this category was given one piece of juicy watermelon and the winner was the person who finished their […]
Mitch Calvert Justin Bujold of International Travel Services drove one that eventually found the back of the net against the Rendez-Vous Voyageurs in men’s Borderland Soccer league action at the St. Francis Sportsfields last Thursday night. The game was halted midway through the first-half due to weather and is scheduled […]
Staff So far, so good for Steve Arpin with Venturini Motorsports. The Fort Frances native switched over to the driver development program for NASCAR’s Joe Gibbs Racing from Eddie Sharp Racing prior to this past Saturday’s Pennsylvania 200 from Pocono Raceway—and sped to his best finish on tour with a […]
the OPP Around 8 p.m. on Saturday, an employee of a Minnesota houseboat company overheard a “may-day” call on Marine Channel #68. The may day call indicated there was a stranded vessel in Bleak Bay, Rainy Lake for the past two days. The employee of the American houseboat company immediately […]
