Mitch Calvert A stand-out Muskie basketball player has been lured across the river to play for the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs this coming season. Travis Stromness, who spent last season as a fifth-year addition with the senior boys’ team at Fort High, was recruited by RRCC at the power […]
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Elisabeth Heslop The 11th-annual RBC Charity Golf Classic is set to go this Saturday (July 11), but there’s still plenty of room for more teams. Local RBC branch manager Heather Johnson said they had 17 teams registered as of Friday. “I know there are quite a few out there [that […]
Peggy Revell After years of service within the local education system, the longtime president of the local chapter of the Elementary Teacher’s Federation of Ontario has stepped down into retirement. “It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to work with the teachers here, that is a definite,” said Sharon Preston. […]
Elisabeth Heslop For the past three years, Ralph Galusha and Pat Steele have come in second at the “Castin’ for Cash” bass fishing tournament on Lake Despair. This year, the Devlin-area duo is going to take another stab at a first-place catch in the ninth-annual event later this week. “There’s […]
Elisabeth Heslop The annual Canada Day fastball tournament in Barwick crowned a familiar champion again this year. The Sight & Sound Wolves (Fort Frances) thumped the Barwick Blue Knights’ “Young Guns” 11-2 in the ‘A’ final to capture the title for the third-straight year. Wolves’ manager Derek McKinnon said the […]
Mitch Calvert It takes a special type of teenager to strap themselves into a race car and commit every summer weekend to burning rubber on a track. But there are plenty with that mentality here in the Rainy River District—including 10 drivers on the Borderland Racing Association circuit who wheel […]
Duane Hicks Whether it’s fences or hedges, shrubs or trees, the town is reviewing which properties in Fort Frances with these features are compliant with Bylaw 13/01—the fence bylaw. The bylaw department currently is creating a list of properties with non-compliant fences, hedges, shrubs, and trees, with the focus on […]
Elisabeth Heslop A new electrical transformer station has been proposed to be built in the Township of Chapple. According to Hydro One Networks Inc., the company responsible for the transmission and distribution of electrical power in Ontario, the current transformer station in Fort Frances is reaching the end of its […]
Duane Hicks Local artist Cher Pruys continues to soar to success on the international aviation painting scene, recently winning first-place in the General Aviation Category of the American Society of Aviation Artists 2009 International Aerospace Exhibition for the second-straight year. “I am just thrilled to have won first place again […]
Elisabeth Heslop Local swimmer Donovan Taylor attended the 2009 Man./Sask. long course championships in Winnipeg over the weekend having been 15 years old for only two days. For Taylor, that proved to be a significant challenge. Instead of being the among the oldest, and thus possibly the strongest and most […]
Peggy Revell Tanner Williamson, Katelin Gurniak, Adam George, Tyson Grinsell, and Jacob Bolzan jerseyed up to “Celebrate our hockey culture” with this Canada Day parade float organized by Northern Community Development Services.
Peggy Revell Sitting on Robert J.N. Pither’s own chair, Fort Frances Musuem summer student Joelle Barron showed off some of the displays that will be up there for the summer months. The display, entitled “To the Point,” will feature objects and memories commemorating all the leisure time people have enjoyed […]
