Cellular phone service between Fort Frances and Atikokan should be up and running as early as June after provincial funding finally came through. And service could be extended all the way to Thunder Bay by the end of the year. After being granted $1.75 million by the Northern Ontario Heritage […]
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Some 64 students at Donald Young School in Emo took part in a poster contest with the message, “Raise Values Above Violence.” “We had a very good response,” noted Brigette Schulzki, adding the three judges from St. Patrick’s CWL had a hard time choosing the winners. “I wish we could […]
For 14 years, Doug Pearson has had five days off a week. He lives in a house he built himself, with a basement he dug by hand. He grounds his own wheat, and travels everywhere by bike. “It’s kind of like the back to the earth movement from the ’50s […]
Science isn’t something that interests me a great deal but when I walked into the first Crossroads science fair last Wednesday afternoon, I was absolutely amazed at the projects. Students in grades four-eight had entered the science fair, which meant about 125 projects that had to be viewed and judged. […]
The Muskies senior girls’ volleyball team certainly didn’t expect to face St. Ignatius for the NWOSSAA crown–and a trip to the all-Ontario showdown March 8-9 in Ottawa. But the Falcons will be coming to town Friday after they upset the Hillcrest Colts for the Thunder Bay title. “Honestly, I wanted […]
It’s not how you start a season but how you finish it. After stumbling through the regular season with a 1-7 mark, the Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team almost pulled off the upset of the day in the NorWOSSA final against favoured Dryden here last Friday. The black-and-gold took the […]
It’s a rematch they’ve waited for all season. With the memory of a 70-38 pasting at the hands of the Hammarskjold Vikings earlier this season, the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team would love nothing better than to turn the tables on their Thunder Bay rivals in the best-of-three NWOSSAA showdown […]
The Muskies expect Dryden to use a physical style of game when the two teams open the best-of-three NorWOSSA final here Friday night. But it remains to be seen whether the Eagles will have any more success than the Kenora Broncos did against the black-and-gold in the semi-finals over the […]
Playing together at the high school level for the last time, the Rainy River Owl rink–skipped by Angela Lee–would have liked to have finished on a winning note. But their season screeched to a halt yesterday afternoon at the NWOSSAA playdowns in Marathon with a 7-6 loss to Nipigon-Red Rock, […]
The local B•Macs ‘AA’ Bantam hockey team lost 8-2 to Shattuck-St. Mary’s (Minneapolis) in the semi-finals of a tournament in Brandon on Sunday. Shattuck, a private school coached by former NHL’er J.P. Parise, jumped out to a 4-0 lead before Clayton Windigo and Jordan Wilson got the B•Macs back in […]
The senior girls’ bowling team, representing Plaza Lanes at the 4-Steps to Stardom zone competition in Dryden last weekend, won the gold medal and now will represent Sunset Country at the provincials March 18-19 in Thunder Bay. They finished with a 2,804 pin total–just 34 ahead of Timber Lanes (Dryden). […]
Hillary Morgan received the top mark at the women’s provincial level in the qualifier last weekend at the Confederation College “Bubble” with an overall score of 53.1 for the total of her optional and compulsory routines. She received the 2000 gold medal award competing against seven other prov. 2 athletes […]
