After months of uncertainty, and more than a month with its front doors chained shut, the future of the Red Dog Inn here appears to be stabilizing with a new owner poised to take possession of the property. The new owner, Don Lee of Sioux Lookout, has not finalized every […]
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Head coach Bob Swing promised the Muskie ‘A’ football squad would be better this season. Other than on the scoreboard, consider it a promise kept. “I know the score doesn’t show it but if you were there, you would have known that we should have won that game,” Swing said […]
Kevin Webb was pretty special, but special teams proved to be the Borderland Thunder’s undoing here Friday night. Webb had a highlight-reel goal and added an assist, but the OCN Blizzard used a shorthanded goal and a power-play marker in the third period to fight their way past the Thunder […]
The local Ministry of Natural Resources office reported today that three forest fires which started east and northeast of town over the last five days are all under control. MNR fire supervisor Gary Harland said all three were minor in nature and posed no threat. “Two of the fires are […]
After having to cancel it last year, the local Business Improvement Association is planning to resurrect the “Harvest Festival” on Saturday, Sept. 27—and looking to get as many participants as possible. “It’s in the planning stages right now,” said BIA co-ordinator Harlene Lowey. “It looks like we’re going to have […]
It wasn’t a dazzling debut, but the Muskie ‘B’ football squad left their coaches with a favourable impression on opening day. While at first blush the 22-0 score in favour of the visiting Warroad Warriors yesterday wasn’t overly complimentary to the Muskies, head coach Lou Gauthier wasn’t short on praise […]
For anyone who hasn’t made the trek across the border to take in an event at the Citizens for Backus/ AB facility in International Falls, this weekend is your perfect chance. It was a year ago this week that the group took over ownership of two old schools in an […]
The Fort Frances Fire Department responded to a blaze at the Walleye Trailer Court around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, making for the second trailer fire this week. Fire Chief Steve Richardson said the damage—totalling $25,000— was contained to the middle part of the trailer while the rest of it sustained […]
Eleven local “celebrities” have been lined up to take part in the Canadian Diabetes Association’s annual challenge, which runs Sept. 13-19. This year’s celebrities include Dawn Booth, co-ordinator of the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis Club president Mark Jones (also of Holmlund Financial), Capt. Angel Sandoval of the Fort […]
As annual maintenance and repairs continue at the kraft mill, local mill manager John Harrison said things have been going smoothly so far. “We’re on schedule,” he noted this morning. “We should be starting back up on Sept. 11.”^The kraft mill was shut down last Friday for its annual late-summer […]
A barbecue to raise funds for the Terry Fox Foundation, and the search for a cure for cancer, will be held tomorrow in advance of the annual Terry Fox Run coming up Sunday, Sept. 14. Tomorrow’s fundraiser will run from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the lot beside Pharmasave (the event’s […]
Plans for tonight’s championship final in the Fort Frances adult slopitch league have landed foul. League co-ordinator Megan Ross said this morning that the scheduled final between the league’s ‘A’ bracket champion Rural Reps and ‘B’ bracket titleists Little Rascals would not go ahead—and that there would be no overall […]
