The Rendezvous Yacht Club held their longest race of the season on Saturday. Colin Hewitt won this year’s Kettle Falls Race with Kevin Peterson coming in second. Warren Wagness was third overall and the first of the Class A boats. The race started at 10 a.m. just north of Grindstone […]
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The Anishinabek Police Service, OPP Criminal Investigation Branch and North West Region Crime Unit have made an arrest in the death investigation of 19-year-old Daniel Beardy of Thunder Bay, son of Stan Beardy, Grand Chief of Nishnawbe-Aski Nation, Ontario’s biggest group of First Nations. The 23-year-old male from Greenstone, was […]
The Dryden OPP is continuing their search for a missing boater on Eagle Lake. At about 9 a.m. yesterday, three people were traveling in a boat on the lake when the occupants were thrown into the water. They were not wearing their life jackets, and after 15 minutes, other boaters […]
The provincial government has announced an increase in funding for child care in the hopes of creating 4,000 additional subsidized spaces across the province. The Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board learned earlier this week that it would be receiving an increase in annual funding, as well as some […]
The family of the late Rick Pearson has worked to turn a sad event into a positive initiative, to help raise money for kidney disease. The second-annual Rick Pearson Memorial Golf Tournament will be taking place at Kitchen Creek Golf Course this Monday (Aug. 2). The idea for the golf […]
Nearly two dozen kids came out to the Fort Frances Public Library yesterday to participate in a day of chess playing, and every one of them went home a winner. John Rutherford, also known as “The Chess Guy,” came out to play simuls with the kids, and to find qualifiers […]
Having his team’s first day weight disqualified, felt like being slapped in the face and stabbed in the back, said Joe Prichett. Prichett and his partner Hiram Archibald, both of Sioux Narrows, had their 16.08 pound bag disqualified in the first day of the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship […]
Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship volunteer Brian Hebert has an uncanny ability of guessing the weights of the angler’s baskets before they go up on stage. Frankly, it’s a little creepy. With a mere glance he makes the call—and 90 percent of the time he gets it within one or […]
They kept on slipping. Like being in quicksand, they fell lower and lower in the standings. From 21st after the first day, to 29th after the second. Guy Johnston and Doug Wright, both of Fort Frances, couldn’t explain it. They had found the fish during their pre-fishing and now they […]
The night before the final day of the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, in an overcrowded room at the Rainbow Motel, it was said and it was heard. The top two teams in John Guzej and Ted Stewner and James and Bill Lindner, were joined by the 10th place […]
Daniel and Ron Lindner (Team #128) hadn’t even begun fishing on Day One of the tournament when they hit a rock going through a narrow pass. “We hit a rock that we knew was there, bent the whole propeller, broke half the skag off. Pretty much broke the lower unit,” […]
For their first time as partners in a tournament they did okay. In journalism circles, this is what we call an understatement. Kirk and Gene Boyer, who have fished non-competitively a countless number of times together since childhood and have been in numerous tournaments with other partners, had never competed […]
