Kiera Kowalski Fred Lavendure, Al Smith, and Gary Arnold of the local International Early Iron Car Club posed with Mayor Roy Avis (second from right) beside the large sign that will welcome the “Canadian Coasters” when they arrive here beginning late tomorrow morning. The car club also thanked Mayor Avis […]

Joey Payeur Red Gut Babes’ pitcher Tracy Morningstar ended the regular season on a high note as the reigning league MVP helped her team dump the defending champion Fort Frances Her-icanes 17-7 in Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League action there yesterday evening. The league will hold its annual all-star […]

Kiera Kowalski His Eminence, Metropolitan Yurij, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, travelled from Winnipeg to provide a special service at St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church here Sunday morning in celebration of its 70th anniversary. Following the service, members of the congregation and their guests enjoyed a […]

Joey Payeur International Falls U12 shortstop Emerson Evans of Fort Frances, right, stepped in front of third baseman C.J. Hasbargen to nab this roller during a 21-2 loss to Itasca during the 2017 Minnesota District Four Little League Age Little League Tournament in the Falls on Friday. Both the Falls […]

Joey Payeur Mason McKay kicked it into a higher gear as he rounded first base and eventually came all the way around to score to lead off the game for Charlie’s Angels in the ‘A’ final of the Kingsley Downs/Gus Lindberg Memorial slow-pitch tournament yesterday at the Devlin Ball Park. […]

Kiera Kowalski Town of Fort Frances summer students were hard at work this morning helping to set up the big tent at the Sorting Gap Marina for the Fort Frances Bass Championship that starts next Thursday (July 20). There is a temporary road closure on the part of Front Street […]

Kiera Kowalski Gareth and Lilith Scott searched for rocks along the shore at Point Park yesterday afternoon in hopes of finding the perfect one to paint for their creation during the weekly Open Air Art Studio staged by Community Living Fort Frances and District. Children also created mandalas out of […]

Duane Hicks Cathy DeGagne checked out an arrangement of vintage car parts made by Fine Line Art Gallery co-op member Ed Halvorsen to promote the Canadian Coasters’ 50th anniversary tour stopping in Fort Frances next week. The Scott Street “Show ‘n Shine” is slated for Wednesday, followed by a car […]

Nicholas Donaldson Bryce MacDonald (front left), Jersey Rose, David Morrison, Trinity Richards, and Faith Richards, along with William Richards (back left), Kaleb Richards, Nolan MacDonald, and Dahlia Kaun, were the participants of this year’s Youth Enterprise Camp in Fort Frances. The budding entrepreneurs created their own businesses during the four-day […]

Submitted Pascal Bredin of Gatineau, Que. used Fort Frances as one of his stopovers this past week to rest during what is a planned 7,500-km trek by canoe from his hometown all the way to Inuvik, N.W.T. See story on A2.

Kiera Kowalski Via Lockman enjoyed painting a flower recycled from a used plastic water bottle last Thursday afternoon at the Community Living Open Air Studio at Hammond’s Nursery here. The next open air studio will be at Point Park this Thursday from 3-7 p.m., where participants will be making painted […]

Brittany Bowman David was the lucky winner of one of the bikes up for grabs at the rodeo whil Paige won the other one.