The Muskies got back on the winning track yesterday afternoon in Dryden, grounding the host Eagles 49-28 in NorWOSSA action. “They did really well. It wasn’t that close,” coach Greg Allan noted last night after the team returned home to Fort Frances. Scott Witherspoon led the black-and-gold with three touchdowns […]
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Unseasonably mild weather last Friday made for perfect conditions for a grade seven/eight soccer tournament held at Robert Moore and St. Francis here.
The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team strutted their stuff during their first tournament of the season last weekend, coming home from Thunder Bay with a 2-1 record. “The girls stepped up,” noted head coach Mike Busch. “In all the games, they played well.” Actually, their first game against St. Ignatius […]
The local KC PeeWee rep team got their season off on a winning note here Sunday afternoon with a 6-3 victory over the Atikokan Flyers. Josh Sigurdson, assisted by Cody Dittaro, opened up the scoring with 15:16 left in the first period. Then, with just over five minutes left, Jared […]
The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team showed they could hold their own during a tournament last weekend in Thunder Bay, winning two of three games there. “We did quite well. The girls played well,” head coach Paul Noonan enthused. The team started things off on a good note, dumping St. […]
Transportation and special education funding are topics that will be brought up by both the local public and Catholic school boards here Thursday when they meet with deputy education minister Suzanne Herbert. Both boards have been spending more than their budgets in the area of transportation for several years as […]
After three years of not doing any serious painting, Connie Cuthbertson has made her way back into the art scene with a bang. “I was accepted to exhibit in a show–the 75th Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour,” the Fort Frances woman enthused. Although Cuthbertson, who also owns Northwoods Gallery […]
While raising children can be demanding under normal circumstances, raising physically or developmentally disabled children can take quite a toll on parents. For 10 years, the Family Relief Program here has been sending out qualified family relief workers to offer those parents periods of respite. “We have about 54 families […]
It has been almost a year since the first elk were released at Cameron Lake by the Northwestern Ontario Elk Restoration Committee and so far it’s been a great success, said co-chair Mike Solomon. “The elk are alive and well,” Solomon said last week. “With the exception of four or […]
The odds of bumping into Thivagaran Pillay, Thulani Thompson, Johannes Cornelius Botha, or Malcolm Leon Booysens in downtown Fort Frances are now pretty slim. But for four days last week, the South African delegation was in town to learn what makes a small Canadian community tick. The delegation, from the […]
Fort Frances Little Theatre will be back on stage with its production of “Beauty and the Beast” on Nov. 2-4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Townshend Theatre here. A matinee also is slated for Sunday, Nov. 5 at 2 p.m. This version–written and directed by Wendy Judson of Emo–promises to […]
In grief, in celebration, in struggle, in fleeting moments of peace: we gather forever, not as a people helpless and afraid, not as a people victorious and proud, but as a people, pulled by the Spirit to live lives of love and compassion. “Tonight is not a fundraiser. It’s a […]
