Jamie Mountain Brett Schram looked to make a lay-up during the second half of the Muskie junior boys’ basketball team’s 46-42 loss to the Dryden Eagles last Tuesday afternoon at Fort High. Schram scored a team-high 19 points in a losing cause. The Muskies (1-2) will cap first-half NorWOSSA play […]

Jamie Mountain Ashton Cousineau looked to fend off a Kenora Broncos’ opponent and win the puck battle during the first period of the Muskie boys’ hockey team’s 3-1 win Saturday night at the Ice For Kids Arena. It was the Muskies’ second-straight win against the Broncos after also beating them […]

Jamie Mountain Aurora Hutton tipped a shot over the outstretched arms of Kenora Broncos’ defender Brianna Leutschaft during the third set of the Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team’s 3-0 win Thursday afternoon at Fort High. The squad will cap the first half of their NorWOSSA schedule tomorrow against the host […]

Submitted Trevor Guderyan with the cow moose our group was fortunate to tag this past week.

Duane Hicks Jeff Rousseau, left, Capt. Dave Crichton, Capt. Wayne Riches, and Brad Townson were among the Fort Frances Fire Brigade members who performed the daunting task of packing 160 Christmas hampers for local individuals, couples, and families yesterday morning at the Salvation Army food bank here. The brigade has […]

Sam Odrowski Mara Whitfield, a Grade 3 teacher at St. Michael’s School here, held up the crafts she and her students made during the school’s Christmas luncheon held yesterday upstairs at La Place Rendez-Vous.

Sam Odrowski Ayanna Savage, left and Aiden Loerzel took a seat on Santa and Mrs. Claus’ laps to tell them what they would like for Christmas and get their picture taken by Studio Gibbous at The Christmas Store (located at Lowey’s Greenhouse & Market Gardens) on Saturday.

Duane Hicks Diane Maxey directed the Fort Frances Choraliers in a performance of “Good News from Home” yesterday afternoon at the Townshend Theatre here. A few hundred people enjoyed the upbeat Christmas cantata, which the Choraliers also performed the previous Sunday over in International Falls.

Work has begun to demolish the building located at 335 Scott St. in order to re-purpose the site into a parking lot for The Sleepy Owl motel located directly to the west. A motion to enter into a site plan control agreement with Good Day Wholesalers (Crozier) Ltd., which owns […]

Jamie Mountain Jordon Bazylewski looked to drive towards the hoop during the fourth quarter of the Muskie junior boys’ basketball team’s 46-42 loss to the Dryden Eagles here Tuesday afternoon. All four Muskie court teams resumed NorWOSSA action this afternoon when they hosted the Kenora Broncos at the “Fish Tank,” […]

Sam Odrowski Seven Generations Education Institute hair-styling program students Jasmine Bump, left, Jadia Nash, Larissa Derkson, and Cherish Gervais showed off the Christmas tree-styled mannequin heads they had decorated on Tuesday at the hair studio on King’s Highway. Students who take the program learn how to cut, style, and treat […]

Sam Odrowski Fort High student Janissa Judson was set up in the school’s cafeteria last Wednesday morning with her display that looked at heat therapy and her co-op placement at La Verendrye Hospital here. She found the physiotherapy aspects of her placement to be the most interesting.