Hosting a fearsome, and in many ways superior, Fort William North Stars squad, the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres earned a split in a pair of hard fought 6-4 games over the weekend. “We’ll take a split,” said Sabres’ head coach Wayne Strachan. “Coming into the weekend, we sure wanted a […]
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Whether the citizens of Fort Frances choose Todd Hamilton or Ken Perry to fill the vacant seat on town council will be decided tonight after the ballots are counted once the polls close at 8 p.m. A total of 2,541 ballots had come in as of the end of the […]
The visiting Eveleth Golden Bears proved to be too much for the Muskie girls’ team, with Eveleth handily winning an exhibition game 3-1 on Saturday afternoon. While the Muskies looked every bit the Bears’ physical equal in a surprisingly rough showdown, they looked unprepared and played some of their worst […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team returned from Winnipeg just short of winning the Hill Abra Dewar International Tournament of Champions, falling 3-0 to the St. Paul’s Crusaders in the final yesterday afternoon. The loss followed a stellar run at the tournament, which the Muskies opened Thursday evening with a 6-2 […]
Portage Avenue, from Sinclair Street to Church Street, and Sinclair from Victoria Avenue to Portage Avenue, were closed to all public use and parking as of last Thursday due to construction at the biomass boiler site. Only mill deliveries will be permitted to use this portion of the roadway on […]
David Novak kept his eye on the puck above but rarely saw much of it as he made just four saves on seven shots in the Sabres’ 6-4 loss Friday night.
Making a stop on Fifth Street East, Kayne Shaw of the Fort Frances Fire Brigade tossed a tree into a trailer, as Leo Arrigo and Dan DeGagne looked on, during the bridge’s annual pick-up on Saturday. Residents who had their trees collected are encouraged to give a donation to the […]
With 20 great prizes up for grabs, and proceeds going to a community institution, it’s not too late to buy tickets for the “Building for the Future” elimination raffle. “Building for the Future” campaign chairman Mark Kowalchuk said about half the tickets for the raffle have been sold so far, […]
With news earlier this week the town will be giving the water tower a $550,000 makeover in 2008, one idea to help pay for it could be selling ad space on it. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said yesterday that while the town is applying for a provincial grant […]
The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres have their playoff roster in place after dealing away defenceman JP Boucha while acquiring blueliner Rod Bouchard at the final trade deadline. The Sabres acquired Bouchard from the Chase Chiefs of the KIJHL (B.C.) for future considerations, and received future considerations from the Schreiber Diesels […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team’s excursion to Winnipeg got off on the right foot yesterday as they beat the Oak Park Raiders 6-2 in their opening game of the Hill Dewar Vincent International Tournament of Champions. Zach McCool and Taylor Jorgenson led the Muskie attack with a pair of goals […]
The Lake of the Woods Bears once again were unable to stop the Muskie girls’ hockey team as the black-and-gold battled back for a 5-4 victory in an exhibition game yesterday in Rainy River. The Bears opened the scoring and led 4-2 after the second period before the Muskies took […]
