The ice is down at the Fort Frances Curling Club with competition slated to get underway on October 10. Most leagues are closed but there may be some leeway, to sign up as a spare contact the curling club. This year also marks the return of Learn to Curl program […]
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The Fort Frances Muskies Football team celebrated after a well-deserved 49-6 win over West Kildonan during the Muskies homecoming game, September 29. The team heads back to Winnipeg for the next two weeks to face off against St. John’s and Kildonan East, before ending regular season play on home soil, […]
Organizers of the Truth and Reconciliation Day events saw a spectacular showing of support and solidarity, as hundreds gathered for a march, which wound its way from the Sorting Gap Marina to the site of the the former St Margaret’s residential school. The day was marked with prayers, drumming, emotional […]
CIBC Fort Frances branch general manager Emma Govier pulled the winning ticket for the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club’s Trip of the Month draw for September this morning. Shirley and Neil Whitefield of Fort Frances are the winners of a trip to New York City, valued at $3,800. Next month’s draw […]
Mayor June Caul and Recreation and Culture Manager Tyler Young unveil a restored mural which was rescued before the demolition of the Rainy Lake Hotel. This depiction of the mill property by artist Helen Strickland and it’s partner which depicts the Noden Causeway now hang in the ‘52 Canadians arena. […]
Press Release
THUNDER BAY, ON The SIJHL is announcing today that the September 24, 2022 game featuring the Thunder Bay North Stars at Fort Frances Lakers, originally recorded as an 8-1 victory for the North Stars has been declared a forfeit in favour of Fort Frances as a result of a player […]
Grade seven and eight students are pelted with colourful pigments as they run around the track at Fort Frances High School last Friday afternoon. High school students followed. The school uses the colour run as a way to raise funds and awareness for cancer research via the Terry Fox Foundation […]
In their third trip to Fort Frances, My Son the Hurricane blew away over 100 people in the audience. The band, which included two drummers, two trombones, two trumpets and a saxophone played a lively show that had people up and dancing for most of the night on Sunday. The […]
The Muskies Cross-Country team headed out to Bear’s Pass last week, to take part in time trials. The pre-season practice is used as a way to give racers a baseline performance to judge future races against. – Allan Bradbury photos
Friday in Winnipeg the Fort Frances Muskies jumped out to a 27 – 7 lead at halftime against Churchill High School. The Muskies faltered in the second half losing 34 – 27 to the Bulldogs. The Muskies were led by receiver Hayden Beckett who scored two touchdowns, kicked two field […]
At 5 a.m. on Friday morning, the Biomass Boiler was toppled by way of a controlled explosion. Since then, heavy equipment has been biting away at the building, with the material destined to be sold for scrap. It its former life, the building was a state of the art boiler, […]
A fixture of the business community, North Auto, has been leveled by a fire, which began around 12:30 a.m. Saturday morning, and burned throughout the night. The 12-hour-long blaze required assistance from several area fire and emergency services, including LaVallee and Fort Frances. The fire began in a car parked […]
