The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team made it two-straight over the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints, winning 31-26 up there last Thursday to go along with a victory here earlier this month. “It was a tough game to win. Everybody played great,” enthused coach Mike Busch. “I took five rookies and […]
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After being trampled by the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints in the season-opener here earlier this month, the Muskies boys’ volleyball teams were hoping to shut them down up there last Thursday afternoon. But they didn’t. “We lost both [matches],” noted Adrian Chapman, head coach for both the junior and senior […]
Local pool players are unpacking their cues and gearing up for another season with the Fort Frances mixed pool league. “I hope this is another successful season,” said organizer Heather Gunderson. “We are hoping more people will be motivated to be involved.” The league, which had its first meeting of […]
The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team faced the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) for the second time this season only it was a different outcome up there this time around. “It didn’t go as well as I hoped,” noted head coach Paul Noonan. “It was a well-played game . . […]
Warm, sunny weather may have been the root of a lower-than-expected turnout Friday and Saturday for the annual Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce trade show but its future isn’t any dimmer.
On Monday morning, local vehicles stopped one by one at the new toll booth on the U.S. side of the international bridge here as the employee manning the booth instructed them on how to use their new swipe card.
A new season of Border Concerts was launched last Monday (Sept. 25) when Westwind Brass appeared at Backus Auditorium in International Falls. Hailing from San Diego, Calif., this brass quintet has achieved critical acclaim and won several international brass competitions. Monday’s concert was titled, “Americana,” and featured a diverse set […]
Matt Mutz of Devlin plays chess well. That was confirmed last Thursday during the sixth-annual Corel’s Northwestern Ontario Schools’ Chess Championships at St. Francis School here, where the nine-year-old topped his age division and garnered the only perfect score of the day. The tournament attracted 33 youngsters, with Mutz and […]
Adding a pharmacy to the Canada Safeway store here will mean the end of tobacco sales there by the end of next month. Instead, those sales instead be made through Safeway’s new gas bar, which is currently under construction on the corner of Armit Avenue and Church Street. “Provincial legislation […]
If you ask Rebecca Spencer about her thoughts on the fifth-annual Great Chili Cook-off, be prepared for an enthusiastic reply. Spencer, an investment advisor with Holmlund Financial Services here, not only is a die-hard fan of the event–slated for Friday, Oct. 6 in the parking lot of the Times–but is […]
A preliminary report recommending which schools should be renovated, closed, or amalgamated will be presented to the Rainy River District School Board during its regular meeting next Tuesday. The report comes after several meetings of the Fort Frances Elementary Facilities Review Committee since May. And while the committee is working […]
Local commuters crossing the bridge between Fort Frances and International Falls will face new rates, a one-way toll, and swipe cards beginning this Sunday (Oct. 1). The bridge tickets currently used by commuters no longer will be accepted after Saturday. And in fact, the new swipe cards already are being […]
