With the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market having wrapped up for the season Saturday, the consensus among vendors indicates they had a good year there. Ray and Evelyn Bragg of “Bragging Tackle” were busy selling homemade wood carvings and other trinkets from their table Saturday. But even though it was the […]
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There were two questions heading into last Friday’s showdown here between the first-place Muskies and the third-place Dryden Eagles. First, could the black-and-gold stop Dryden’s vaunted rushing attack led by star running back Byron McKenzie? And second, could the Eagles stop the Muskies? The answer was yes to the first […]
As if a fee increase for hunting and angling licences isn’t bad enough, what’s most irking some locals is that non-residents won’t face a similar jump. “I’m not happy with [the increased fees],” noted local hunter Murray DeGagne. “Why are residents being targeted and not non-residents?” Shawn O’Donnell, president of […]
With the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team uncharacteristically off to a slow start against the host Kenora Broncos last Thursday, head coach Gord McCabe elected to call a time-out. Looking sluggish and uninspired, he felt they needed a break. And it wound up being their most important time-out of the […]
The Muskie junior girls’ basketball finished third at a tournament in Thunder Bay last weekend after dumping Fort William Collegiate 35-16. It was all over practically after the opening tip-off, with the black-and-gold jumping out to a commanding 22-4 halftime lead. Carling Barton and Danielle McGee led the way with […]
Will the real Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team please stand up? Is it the talented squad that can beat you with an array of powerful hits from the power or middle positions, or the one that folds like a cheap tent? Head coach Adrian Chapman, desperately searching for answers with […]
Matthew Smith finished in second place in the boys’ three-km race at the 28th-annual Mid-Canada Legion Elementary School cross-country showdown Saturday at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. Smith, who attends Our Lady of the Way School in Stratton, crossed the finish line in a time of 12:53–just 11 seconds behind […]
The afternoon began with the Muskie senior football team smashing a pumpkin bearing the #20 on the sidelines in reference to stopping Byron McKenzie, the Dryden Eagles’ star running back. It continued with calls of “Stop the pumpkin!” by the Muskie defence before the snap of the ball throughout the […]
Local aviation artist Cher Hogan is heading south this week to accept one of three top art awards in the “Horizons of Flight Competition”–the largest aviation art contest in North America. Hogan will be presented with the “American Women in Aviation Maintenance” award for her painting entitled, “Personal Touch.” It […]
With “Gate Night” and Hallowe’en coming up this weekend, police officers and volunteers will be hitting the town streets for “Operation Pumpkin”–the annual patrol aimed at preventing vandalism. Now in its seventh year, the program has worked well to curb mischievous acts in the past and police expect this year’s […]
Jeremy Asselin is glad he has a cousin like Tyson Grinsell. Some quick thinking by Grinsell, a fourth-grader at Robert Moore School, ensured an ambulance was dispatched immediately after seeing his eight-year-old cousin get struck by a pick-up truck just before noon last Wednesday at the corner of Second Street […]
About 20 people got to talk “face to face” to four video conferencing experts from Toronto, Boston, and Calgary last Friday–all from the comfort of one conference room at the Red Dog Inn here. Just one of its seven video conferencing centres across Northwestern Ontario, Thunder Vision Inc. and Bell […]
