Both Muskie girls’ basketball teams beat the Atikokan Voyageurs here last Thursday afternoon. The senior team had to battle a stubborn Atikokan squad in the early going before pulling away with a 44-22 victory. “The senior team had a slow, tough start but they caught on,” noted Mike Busch, who […]
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For Erin McIvor, a former Fort Frances resident, hockey isn’t everything but it is a big part of her life–and she doesn’t want to see it end anytime soon. “I would love to go all the way to the Olympics but, realistically, that is not going to happen for me,” […]
The Muskies will be gunning for another NorWOSSA title here this Saturday when they square off against the Kenora Broncos in the league final. Kick-off tentatively is slated for 2 p.m. at Westfort field. “We are going to do quite well. They have proved all year that they are winners,” […]
Both matches went to the fifth and deciding game here last Thursday afternoon but unfortunately for the Muskies, the end result was not the same. The senior boys’ volleyball team pulled out an exciting 3-2 win over the visiting Atikokan Voyageurs, icing the seesaw battle with a 15-11 win in […]
The local Sunset Country Ford Mustangs Atom ‘AA’ shellacked Kenora 10-4 here last weekend. The Mustangs jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Brian Glavish and Kevin Bobczynski (assisted by Andrew Easton). Then in the second, Ben Drazenovich (assisted by Tyler Harris) made it […]
The Fort Frances Bantam ‘AA’ rep team thumped visiting Dryden in a physical battle at the ‘Ice for Kids’ arena here last weekend. Scott Bridgeman, assisted by Andrew George, put the Fort squad up 1-0 in the first. But after Ian Lockman (assisted by Cody Mosbeck and Eric Mosbeck) gave […]
Not all kids are couch potatoes, according to a survey conducted by the Fort Frances Times last Friday. Roughly 80 percent of grade five-eight students at Robert Moore and St. Francis schools who returned surveys said they participate in at least some form of physical activity for some time after […]
Susie Grynol of Devlin is getting a firsthand look at the workings of the federal government as she walks the halls of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa as a page. But she also had the opportunity to witness the outpouring of emotion Canadians openly expressed when news of Pierre Elliot […]
At the tender age of 10, Karli McKinnon of Fort Frances has become a published writer, with her first poem appearing in the newly-released “Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul.” “I read an article about the book and I wrote them a letter,” McKinnon said. “I didn’t think I was […]
Although only 22, local singer Alyson Booth has a number of years of experience under her belt as far as performing goes. And while she’s placed in several “Quest for the Best” competitions here, including once in first place, she and Emo pianist Michelle Sommerfield hit the jackpot last weekend […]
Exceeding its preliminary total of $1,500, a more recent tally shows he Fort High senior band raised more than $3,000 towards its trip to Germany and Austria next March Break at an Oktoberfest dinner and silent auction last Thursday evening at the Legion here. “It’s been a month in the […]
It was almost Hallowe’en so it seemed like a good time to look at a haunted school. A tour of abandoned Fort Frances High School should prove scary enough by now, all right. You really can’t expect to find vampires over there, even if bats and rats should be plentiful. […]
