There’s nothing like a Friday night in Eveleth, Mn. to restore your shooting eye, ambush your coach with snowballs, and send a local restaurant into a frenzy. The Muskie girls’ hockey team delivered a scintillating performance Friday night at the Eveleth Hippodrome, firing 50 shots on goal en route to […]
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Entering their series against the Fort William First Nation North Stars here over the weekend, the Borderland Thunder were looking to put some doubt in the minds of the SIJHL’s top team. And after a 0-0 overtime tie on Friday night, the Thunder accomplished just that. “If we get past […]
The Lorne Jackson rink of Fort Frances failed to advance to the provincial playdowns after finishing with a 2-3 record at the Northwestern Ontario men’s showdown in Terrace Bay last week. Jackson’s rink, which included Don DeBenedet, Derek Jackson, and Mike Kjerulf, began play Thursday with an 11-3 loss to […]
Parents interested in learning more about the junior and senior kindergarten classes offered at St. Michael’s School—both in English and French Immersion—are invited to attend a meeting there tonight. Marie Brady, president of the local chapter of Canadian Parents for French, said the meeting, which runs from 7-8 p.m. in […]
Officers with the Thunder Bay Tri-Force/Kenora Joint Forces Drug Unit executed a search warrant in Kenora on Tuesday that resulted in drugs seized and two people being charged. Police executed a search warrant at a motel in Kenora and seized items including a crack pipe, digital scales containing cocaine residue, […]
After a nearly month-long investigation by the Fort Frances OPP, a Thunder Bay man has been charged in relation to issuing a forged document and obtaining goods by false pretense. On Dec. 29, Fort Frances OPP began an investigation into the use of a fraudulent document to obtain prescription medication. […]
Once again it was a junior team that prevented the Muskies from being swept. This time, the Muskie junior boys’ basketball team came away with a 49-26 victory over the Dryden Eagles in NorWOSSA action here yesterday afternoon, boosting their record to 2-4 with only two games left before the […]
The Lorne Jackson rink of Fort Frances faced a must-win situation in their draw which started at noon (EST) today in order to stay alive at the Northwestern Ontario men’s curling playdowns in Terrace Bay. They were up against Wayne Hampson of Red Lake (the outcome wasn’t known by press […]
The Fort Frances Public Library will celebrate Family Literacy Day a few days early when it hosts “Winter Fest” on Monday evening. The fun, which runs from 6:30-7:30 p.m., will include a pajama parade, a “Cocoa Club,” and bedtime stories, librarian Andrea Avis noted this morning. She added two guest […]
Organizers are hoping more people are willing to take a chance to win $100 in groceries every week for a year and buy a raffle tickets in support of local Crime Stoppers prior to the draw next Saturday afternoon (Jan. 29). “Things are going somewhat well. We’ve sold about half […]
Grade 8 students at J.W. Walker School—like the rest of the world—were deeply-troubled by the devastation caused by the tsunamis in South Asia last month, and are going the extra mile to do what they can to help. They raised $2,500 in a two-day blitz early last week, in an […]
Facing financial troubles, SAAN Stores Ltd. has gone into receivership and currently is undergoing a reorganization process that includes the liquidation of all of its stock and the closing of some of its stores. It is not known yet if the Fort Frances store will be among those closed. SAAN […]
