For a team that got eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, the football Muskies are content with the season that was. “[The coaching staff] told them they played a heck of a game,” said Muskie ‘A’ head coach Bob Swing on the mood in his team’s locker room […]
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Liniment league players will suit up at the Memorial Sports Centre this weekend for the first-annual Mark Hopkins Memorial hockey tournament. Twelve teams will take to the “Ice for Kids” and “52 Canadians” arenas starting Friday at 7 p.m., with play continuing until the finals Sunday afternoon. Squads from […]
Northwestern Health Unit staff and municipal councils across the region will get the results of its much anticipated operational review starting this week. The review, done at the request of municipal governments across the northwest to determine whether the health unit has been operated efficiently, will be revealed to its […]
The Muskies’ first season in the Winnipeg High School Football League ended in the quarter-finals Friday, falling to the Churchill Bulldogs 21-14 at Canad Inns Stadium. Down 7-0 at the half, the Muskies (4-4) battled back to take the lead 14-7 early in the third quarter after running back Jock […]
The 22-year-old man charged with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of local 16-year-old male is slated to appear in court here next Monday. Joseph Francis Terriault was arrested and charged July 31, after Nathan Edward Macdonald was found severely wounded around 3 a.m. in the backyard of […]
While ghouls and ghosts will be a common sight on the streets Wednesday evening, “Operation Pumpkin” once again will be on the lookout for the real monsters—vandals and thieves—on “Gate Night.” “‘Operation Pumpkin’ is where members of the police and volunteers from the community work together to keep an eye […]
Saturday night’s aggressive and penalty-riddled contest between the Borderland Thunder and visiting Northwest Knights left something opposing head coaches Wayne Strachan and Don Babineau could agree on. They weren’t happy with the calls. “The ref tried to take the game over,” said Strachan after his team beat the Knights 5-2 […]
The local public school board still doesn’t know when the province-wide grade 10 literacy test will be re-scheduled. “We’ve not heard any news of the grade 10 literacy testing,” said Warren Hoshizaki, director of education for the Rainy River District School Board. In the interim, the board, including a literacy […]
Although the province is a step closer to establishing a medical school in Northern Ontario, it may not be enough for Northwestern Ontario, NDP leader and local MPP Howard Hampton said today. Premier Mike Harris announced yesterday that a Northern Medical School Implementation Management Committee will be established to help […]
CBC’s “Hockey Day in Canada” will be in Fort Frances in January to film segments of Saturday afternoon minor hockey games. The three-and-a-half hour show will air live across the country beginning at noon (EST) on Jan. 5, with shots of games here being shown periodically throughout the broadcast. Dave […]
Shovels, toques, and booster cables were out early this year as the first real taste of winter hit Fort Frances on Thursday morning. Police have been busy as drivers re-familiarize themselves with the annual winter conditions. “The roads right now are terrible. We are advising drivers to slow down and […]
Borderland Thunder head coach Wayne Strachan said he and his coaches will focus attention on preparing the team for this weekend’s home games rather than their debacle Wednesday night in Dryden—an 8-3 smoking at the hands of the Ice Dogs. The Thunder (5-2-2) will host the Northwest Wisconsin Knights Friday […]
