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A participant of Katie Weatherston’s annual girls’ hockey school worked her way through a drill yesterday. The camp wraps up this afternoon at the Ice for Kids Arena.
Sierra Adams soaked a crowd of bystanders watching the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship’s annual parade of boats late yesterday afternoon. Mike Adams and Vince Godbout (Team #99) decked their boat out with a Hawaiian theme for the parade.
It was a quiet day in the West Fire Region yesterday despite rising fire hazards across the northern portions of the region. No new fires were reported, but crews were busy across the region as they worked through values protection exercises, crew audits for safety and fire suppression techniques, and […]
The big tent at the Sorting Gap Marina will be rockin’ tonight through Saturday with all the nighttime entertainment lined up for the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. Legendary Canadian rockers “Trooper” will take the stage tonight and some tickets are still left. They cost $25 in advance, which are […]
With a strong southeast wind and rain clouds looming, the 14th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship got off to a roaring start from Sand Bay this morning to the approval of a hardy gathering of family and friends. Defending champs Jim Moynagh and Joe Thrun, who have won the FFCBC […]
It was a great evening to be a skeet shooter during the weekly event Tuesday evening at the Fort Frances Sportsmen’s Club range by Frog Creek. The air was still and the cloud cover reduced the glare—making for ideal conditions to fire off some high scores. Two squads of shooters, […]
The “Carrie-Ann” crewed by pirates Carrie Bragg and Cassie Westover, in vicious hand-to-hand combat, rammed and eventually sank the “Tica, Tica, Tica” (crewed by Kenny Holmes and Patrick Vogan) during the sixth-annual Great Beaver Cardboard and Duct Tape Boat Races in Rainy River on Sunday.
Summer is a time to relax, to laugh at life, to share some goodness, and to take in some great talent in our community. In the spirit of our past “Broadway on the Border” shows, which were so popular, “Summer on the Border,” slated for this Friday (July 25) at […]
Back by popular demand, the Fort Frances Public Library is hosting another teen “open mic” next Wednesday (July 30) at 6:30 p.m. This event has been part of the library’s teen programs on Wednesdays in the past, but this year we are doing something different—all proceeds from this summers teen […]
While Manitoulin Transport Inc. is undergoing some company restructuring, it will not be closing its Fort Frances location anytime soon. Contrary to a comment at the July 14 town council meeting that the local terminal of the trucking company would be closing, Manitoulin manager Tony Smith said during a phone […]
The Fort Frances OPP is looking for a male suspected of robbing the Mid-Town Motel and assaulting the owner around 7 p.m. yesterday. Police described the suspect as a First Nations male, approximately 5’9” with a slender build, and wearing a “G Unit” white over blue hooded sweatshirt. Police were […]
