The future looks bright for the proposed Borderland Thunder booster club after group reps received a vote of confidence Monday night from the Couchiching band council. Booster club spokesman Eugene McPherson confirmed Tuesday morning that the band council gave organizers permission to use the team’s name and logo in their […]
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It was a summer to remember, but for Chrissy Thomson, it’s time to start making new memories. The Fort Frances native is knee deep into her second NCAA women’s golf season with the St. John’s University Red Storm, based out of Jamaica, N.Y. And her squad is off to another […]
Four local runners took the scenic tour of Minnesota’s largest metropolitan area during the 22nd-annual Twin Cities Marathon on Sunday. Connee Badiuk, Bob Tkachuk, and Cathy Kowal-Golding participated in the full marathon, which wound through St. Paul before ending up in the Minneapolis portion of the area. Char Bliss, meanwhile, […]
The pain in Ty Griffith’s ankle is only surpassed by the one in his stomach—and he says he’s not alone. “All the guys here are sick of saying, ‘Next week, next week,’” the Grade 11 linebacker/backup quarterback said of the Muskie ‘A’ football team’s present 0-5 regular-season mark—and 16-game losing […]
Lou Gauthier was having a hard time trying to recall when he had witnessed so much misfortune befall one team. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” a shell-shocked Gauthier said about the swarm of injuries that reduced his Muskie ‘B’ football squad to having just two available substitutes for the […]
A schedule switch put the Muskies senior girls’ basketball team in a foul mood—and the Kenora Broncos felt the full brunt of their frustration. Tournament all-star Carley McCormick had 12 points, and Stephanie “Mouse” Mattson added 10, as Fort High crushed their NorWOSSA rivals 42-8 to clinch fifth place at […]
For two sets, Greg Ste. Croix was experiencing a depressing case of déja vu. Then his troops gave him something new to look at. The Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team erased a 2-0 deficit to take a 3-2 decision over the host Kenora Broncos in NorWOSSA action last Thursday for […]
It was 16 minutes of some of the best basketball the Muskie junior girls’ squad had played all season. Now, about that first 16 . . . “Everything they shot was going in and everything we shot didn’t,” summarized first-year guard Mackenzie Caul after the Muskies’ 54-29 loss to the […]
Take 309 public school students from across the district, turn them loose in the fields and bush around Devlin, and what do you get? Sometimes some remarkable achievements. That certainly was the case when the Rainy River District Athletic Association held its annual cross-country championships at Crossroads School last Thursday. […]
Some 160 anxious anglers will be hoping Lady Luck is on their side tonight when the random draw for the final 40 berths in the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship next July is held at La Place Rendez-Vous. That’s a record number of entrants in the draw—smashing the previous […]
Camille Villeneuve never met a curling rink he didn’t like. The 75-year-old Chicoutimi, Que. resident will bring his road show to the Fort Frances Curling Club this Saturday (Oct. 11) at 2 p.m. for an exhibition match against local curlers as he brushes his way towards a spot in the […]
It was a moment that would have made any mother teary-eyed. Joan Allison was more than glad to accept on behalf of her son, Mike, when the Fort Frances native and 11-year NHL veteran formally was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in Thunder Bay on Sept. […]
