Members of the Emo Figure Skating Club showed off their skills during their annual ice show Saturday night at the Emo-La Vallee Community Centre. This year’s show’s was entitled “Viva Las Vegas.”
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Muskie goalie David Moen swallowed up a shot from the Thunder Bay ‘AAA’ Midget Kings in exhibition action here Saturday afternoon. Matt McLellan netted a second-period goal while Moen made every save as the black-and-gold earned a 1-0 win as a tune-up for their fifth-straight trip to the all-Ontarios in […]
Local youths will have no excuse to stay indoors and play video games during March Break next week as the town is offering a number of activities for them to do. Tying into its new “Passions! Threadworks 2007: Juried Exhibition of Needle Arts” exhibit, which will run until April 12, […]
The Rainy River District School Board continues to work steadily at restoring J.W. Walker to a state where it’s usable and safe for its students once again. But Education Director Jack McMaster said this morning parents should know that students will continue to go to their alternative accommodations when they […]
After 48 regular-season games, the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres and Schreiber Diesels are deadlocked in a fourth-place tie in the SIJHL. And as luck would have it, the two teams are scheduled to square off here tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. to close out the season and determine who […]
MONTREAL—Forestry and newsprint giant AbitibiBowater broke off talks with its union yesterday after workers flatly refused to agree to wage and pension concessions the company said are desperately needed to lower operating costs. The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union announced negotiations between the Montreal company and 30 CEP locals representing […]
The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with The UPS Store, is encouraging area residents to grab their cameras and capture the essence of Rainy River District with their second-annual amateur photo contest. “We introduced the contest at our Home & Leisure Show last year with great success,” said […]
Brooklyn Hayes, a member of the Border Skating Club, navigated pylons last night at the Ice for Kids Arena.
In anticipation of the “Think Green” spring art show starting in April, Jean Richards eyed up a spot on the wall for this entry by Terril Pentney yesterday at the Fine Line Art Gallery here. Also pictured is a green glass dish by Sheila Shaw. The deadline for artists to […]
Jolene Quast, left, her son, Liam, and family friend, Cassidy Fryer, searched for clues in a book during a sports scavenger hunt yesterday evening at St. Francis School here. Dozens of students and their parents came out for the event, which featured a spaghetti supper, followed by a scavenger hunt, […]
A Fort Frances man remained in critical condition at Thunder Bay Regional Hospital as of press time today following a single-vehicle accident here early Tuesday afternoon. The driver, John MacRory, was critically injured when his Dodge Caravan collided with a utility pole on the 100 block of Third Street West, […]
Classes at International Falls schools were cancelled again today after a second threat was called in declaring a bomb would be on campus at 11 a.m., according to school officials. Evidence concludes the caller was the same person who had called in a threat of violence left on an International […]
