Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge 50th anniversary community celebration plans announced
May 17, 2012 — At today’s Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Authority Board of Directors meeting in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., bridge administration management presented an overview of community events and initiatives planned to celebrate the historic 50th anniversary milestone with the Sault communities, the United States and Canada. Some of the more significant events include: [...]
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City Council should stick to running the city
Sault Ste. Marie, MI – Back in December of 2011, the Sault Ste Marie City Commission gave considerable time during their meetings to discuss the long delays at the U.S. side of the International Bridge. “This has been an ongoing problem,” said Commissioner Marilyn Burton, adding the customs agents have had years to respond to [...]
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Kris Williams & Amy Bruni to headline 3rd Annual Michigan Paranormal Conference
Sault Ste. Marie, MI – The fearless, lovely, and charming women of the Ghost Hunters team, Kris Williams and Amy Bruni will headline this years Michigan Paranormal Conference at Kewadin Casinos August 10 – 11. Fifteen speakers are scheduled for the event along with gallery reading and twilight walking tours. Tickets go on sale May [...]
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CMU student dies of bacterial meningitis
A 19-year-old Central Michigan University student has died of a bacterial form of meningitis after returning home from the spring semester. Freshman Nicholas Collins of Livonia died of meningococcal meningitis May 10. The university continues to work in cooperation with Central Michigan District Health Department and Wayne County Health Department officials are working to identify [...]
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51st state? Yoopers are talking up secession from Michigan again
By Peggy Walsh-Sarnecki Detroit Free Press Staff Writer [reprinted with permission from Detroit Free Press] Would it be called the State of Northern Michigan? How about the State of Superior? Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is going to need a new name if it secedes to become the 51st state. And that’s exactly what they’re talking about [...]
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Hospice of the EUP seeks dancers for second ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Fundraiser
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – With the hope of topping its very successful event last fall, Hospice of the Eastern Upper Peninsula is seeking volunteers willing to get on stage for its second annual Dancing with the Stars. The friendly contest that pits friends and neighbors against each other for a good cause – raising [...]
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LSSU celebrates 50th Commencement Ceremony [with photos]
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Sault native and LSSU alumnus Stuart D. Flynn M.D. reminded nearly 550 Lake Superior State University graduates of the qualities of a good leader when he spoke to them as part of the university’s 50th commencement ceremony on Saturday. The ceremony included remarks from LSSU President Tony McLain and student [...]
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Attorney General says don’t bet on Lansing casino
LANSING — Michigan’s Attorney General is taking steps to stop plans by a northern Michigan Indian tribe to bring the one armed bandits to Lansing. The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians wants to build the 245-million-dollar casino east of the Lansing Center. Michigan’s Attorney General Bill Schuette is against the plan and believes it is illegal. In [...]
Snyder Says He Is Taking His Salary
In a not-so-surprising move, Governor Rick Snyder is getting paid his full salary this year, but claims some portion of it will end up going to charity, he said this morning. Mr. Snyder worked for only a dollar his first year in office, but he said that was to help offset the state budget. “We [...]
House Panel Approves Welfare Drug Testing
Adults in families receiving welfare benefits might have to submit to drug tests to continue those benefits under legislation reported today from the House Families, Children and Seniors Committee. The bill (HB 5223), reported on a near party-line vote, would create a one-year pilot in three counties where all new applicants and people seeking to [...]
Bayliss Library to host 2012 Notable Author
Bayliss Public Library is fortunate to again be chosen to host a Michigan Notable Author, one of 20 chosen by the Library of Michigan for this year. Crime novelist, Scott Sparling, will speak at the library on Tuesday, June 12, at 7:00 p.m. about his book “Wire to Wire.” The novel has a full cast [...]
Michigan jobless rate drops to 8.3%
Michigan’s April unemployment rate fell by two-tenths of a percentage point, down to 8.3 percent from the March rate of 8.5 percent, and more than two full percentage points below the same month last year. April’s rate is the lowest for the state since July 2008, when the jobless rate was 8.2 percent. Payroll employment [...]
Disco Queen Donna Summer dies at 63
NEW YORK (AP) — Like the King of Pop or the Queen of Soul, Donna Summer was bestowed a title fitting of musical royalty — the Queen of Disco. Yet unlike Michael Jackson or Aretha Franklin, it was a designation she wasn’t comfortable embracing. “I grew up on rock ‘n’ roll,” Summer once said when [...]
McDowell to take pledge at Sault meeting
SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – Gary McDowell, Democratic candidate for Michigan’s 1st District will meet with seniors at Avery Square in the Soo on Thursday, May 17, at 1 p.m. Thursday’s town hall meeting will conclude McDowell ‘s “Save Our Retirement” listening tour where he traveled across Northern Michigan and the U.P. to hear directly [...]
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