The Emo Bulldogs, who sparkled in last year’s Division II NAFA World Series, won’t be making the trip there later this month due to travelling and player availability problems. Team manager Grant Swire said a major barrier was getting their core squad together to play in tournaments outside the Rainy […]
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Despite the absence of defending champions, the fifth-annual “Ball Blast” tournament, hosted by the Borderland men’s and women’s soccer leagues, still is looking to provide a fun weekend of competition. The Kenora Rangers men’s team dropped out of the tourney at the last minute while MEC, the defending women’s champs, […]
Thunder head coach Wayne Strachan was pleased with the turnout and effort at the team’s first-ever tryout camp last weekend at the Memorial Sports Centre. But he had to face the task of cutting more than half of 65 local and out-of-town hopefuls who took to the ice trying to […]
Preparations for Muskie football and hockey tryouts will be taking place all this week, with both springing into action next Monday (Aug. 13). The football coaching staff has player and family information packages available for pick up at the high school during office hours (Monday to Thursday from 8 a.m. […]
Pither’s Point beach here is still off-limits to swimmers after routine samples taken by the Northwestern Health Unit found dangerous levels of bacteria. The beach was closed for the first time last Thursday and remains closed after follow-up samples–taken Saturday–found the bacteria count was still high. “Samples that we’ve taken […]
The Fort Frances Horticultural Society is seeing who’s got the best “green thumb” when it stages its annual flower and vegetable show tomorrow. Running from 2-8 p.m. at the Robert Moore auditorium, organizers are hoping exhibitors once again will get creative since this year’s theme is “Storybook Gardens.” “The theme […]
Crews are still working around the clock to contain and remove about 2,500 gallons of diesel fuel dumped in to Rainy Lake after Wednesday night’s Rocky Inlet train accident. Yesterday morning a boom line was set out a few metres from shore to contain the spill on the surface of […]
Several northwestern Ontario communities remain cut off as roads are flooded or washed out following Tuesday’s storms. Near Morson water is running through Highway 621, what used to be the only access road to the community, and the four-foot culvert there has washed away. “We’re cut off because of the […]
Devlin has been a hubbub of activity yesterday and today as residents there literrally pick up the pieces after yesterday’s storm. As pieces of barns and houses dot fields north and south of the community residents, volunteers, contractors, hydro crews and CN Rail crews had converged on the area to […]
The Northwestern Health Unit has declared Pither’s Point unsafe for swimming for the first time this season after high bacterial counts were discovered during routine beach sampling. “At Pither’s Point it’s just the usual due to the heavy rains,” Fort Frances public health inspector Dave Coats explained this morning. “It […]
A train that went crashing off the tracks about 25 km east of Fort Frances Wednesday night may have spilled up to 2,500 gallons of diesel into Rainy Lake. “Last night, it happened around 9 p.m., we had a spill of diesel fuel and some of went into the lake,” […]
Held in conjunction for its second time with the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, “Quest for the Best” proved to be an hit yet again, seeing a slew of local talent entertain a sold-out crowd of 1,200-plus. “We’re very, very pleased with the success,” enthused organizer Dawn Booth. “I think, […]
