Have you ever been to Santa’s Village at the North Pole? Well, in case you don’t have enough Air Miles saved up to get there, Ben and Millie Lindal are the caretakers of the next best thing in Arbor Vitae. By Santa’s sleigh, it sits about 15 minutes northeast of […]
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For the second year in a row, the Muskie senior boy’s basketball team struck gold at the La Place Rendez-Vous Invitational tournament here last weekend.
Resident and non-residents alike will have to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for the first recreation fee increase here in a couple of years. The increase, which was across the board, is part of a new structure council approved at its meeting Dec. 11. They will take effect […]
They needed four games but the Muskie senior girls got the job done here last Thursday, beating the Kenora Broncos 3-1 to remain undefeated in the early going of the NorWOSSA volleyball season. “We started flat but halfway through the first game, we were back to ourselves,” head coach Adrian […]
The Muskie junior boys’ basketball team dominated the court here last Thursday en route to a 44-28 victory over the Kenora Broncos to improve their NorWOSSA record to 2-0. “I was surprised when I looked up and saw that we were up by a decent margin,” head coach Dave Ashworth […]
The black-and-gold travelled to Kenora with a depleted lineup Saturday and came home on the short end of a 5-1 decision. Tara Lloyd (unassisted) tallied the Muskies’ lone goal. “We went down there short-benched,” noted co-coach Jim McMahon, adding a team from Winnipeg was supposed to play the Broncos but […]
Not even the fourth-ranked high school hockey team in Minnesota provided much of a challenge for the Muskie boys’ hockey team. The black-and-gold doubled the Baudette Bears 6-3 in exhibition action here last night to remain undefeated so far this season–both in NorWOSSA play and against U.S. teams. The Muskies […]
Steve Arpin travelled to Minnesota on Dec. 8-9 for his first snocross race of the year and the 16-year-old Fort Frances native picked up right where he had left off last winter. Arpin placed first in all four of his events, including the Stock 440 L–Pro X 440, Stock 500 […]
Efforts are in the works to bring Junior ‘A’ hockey to Fort Frances. Shawn Jourdain, recreation director at Couchiching First Nation, recently was approached by Brent Tookenay with the idea to land a team here in the inaugural season of the Superior International Junior Hockey League (Tier II). “We put […]
A two-year dream for Branda Avis was dashed earlier this month when, while browsing on the Internet, she learned “Up With People” was shutting down due to financial problems after 35 years of operation. The Fort High student was looking forward to joining the troupe in July since she first […]
Their name may not be familiar to many around here but the “Rainycrest Rascals” have been entertaining hundreds of people for the past three decades. Originally founded in 1970 by Art DeBenedet, Joey Ossachuk, Arnie Lahti, Angelo Dittaro, and Cliff Peterson, the group has been playing a wide range of […]
The local “Friends of Animals” has begun its annual holiday appeal to raise money to help care for neglected and abused animals in the community–and organizers are hoping people will open their wallets to help. Mary Pasechko, secretary/treasurer for “Friends of Animals,” is hoping the money raised this year will […]
