The Borderland Thunder have forced a Game 7 in Dryden tomorrow night after beating the Ice Dogs 5-1 here last night to even their SIJHL semi-final series at 3-3. The Thunder had trailed the series 3-1, splitting the first two games in Dryden but then losing the next two here […]

The Muskie boys’ hockey team failed to advance to the quarter-finals of the all-Ontarios in London, losing 7-0 to the fifth-seeded Our Lady of Mount Carmel Crusaders on Thursday night to finish in fourth place in Pool ‘D’ with a 1-2-1 record. After a tie and loss on the first […]

David Leskowski will win the Conservative party’s nomination for the new Thunder Bay-Rainy River riding by acclamation after Christine Hogarth, treasurer of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party, withdrew from the race. “Just a few days ago, she [Hogarth] advised our nomination committee that she would be stepping aside,” noted riding […]

It looks like town residents will be paying $1 a bag to have their garbage picked up starting later this spring after council agreed to include it as part of the 2004 budget during a special meeting last night. While the bylaw to implement “bag tags” effective May 31 has […]

Fort Frances residents now may be facing a 15.25 percent property tax increase for 2004, not 18-20 percent as previously believed, as the town continues to crunch numbers. Treasurer Peggy Dupuis noted during a special committee of the whole meeting last night that as the budget currently stands, residential, multi-residential, […]

It looks like town residents will be paying $1 a bag to have their garbage picked up starting later this spring after council agreed to include it as part of the 2004 budget during a special meeting Wednesday night. While the bylaw to implement “bag tags” effective May 31 has […]

Fort Frances residents now may be facing a 15.25 percent property tax increase for 2004, not 18-20 percent as previously believed, as the town continues to crunch numbers. Treasurer Peggy Dupuis noted during a special committee of the whole meeting Wednesday night that as the budget currently stands, residential, multi-residential, […]

There was singing in the hallways at the Memorial Sports Centre as the Borderland Thunder returned from their must-win game in Dryden on Tuesday night full of confidence. The Thunder pulled out a 2-0 victory to trail their best-of-seven semi-final series 3-2, with Game 6 tonight at 7:30 p.m. at […]

The Muskie boys’ hockey team faces a pair of must-win games today if they are to have any chance of advancing to the quarterfinals of the all-Ontarios in London. Fort High faced the 20th-ranked Fr. John Redmond Redhawks this afternoon (the outcome was not known by press time), then will […]

The Muskie boys’ hockey team faces a pair of must-win games today if they are to have any chance of advancing to the quarter-finals of the all-Ontarios in London. Fort High faced the 20th-ranked Fr. John Redmond Redhawks this afternoon (the outcome was not known by press time), then will […]

There was singing in the hallways at the Memorial Sports Centre as the Borderland Thunder returned from their must-win game in Dryden on Tuesday night full of confidence. The Thunder pulled out a 2-0 victory to trail their best-of-seven semi-final series 3-2, with Game 6 tonight at 7:30 p.m. at […]

The local Gillons’ Sharks Atom ‘A’ team headed east last weekend to play in the 23rd-annual Neebing Hockey Classic in Thunder Bay—their last tournament of the season. The team went undefeated in the round-robin and then won their quarter-final matchup. But they lost the semi-final as well as the ‘B’ […]