Cloverland Electric Cooperative announces the candidates eligible for election to its board of directors. Candidate biographies will be published on Cloverland.com and in the May | June issue of Cloverland Connections magazine. Ballots mail April 29,2024 and voting ends May 31, 2024. Members can vote by mailed ballots or electronic […]
Local News
Rudyard School District Welcomes Zebra K9 Safety Dog Team
Rudyard Area Schools, with more than 600 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, has employed a 14-month-old male yellow Labrador retriever, and his handler, Carlos Molina. Molina is a Rudyard resident and 2016 Rudyard graduate who helped lead the district to a district title in basketball and to the semifinals […]
BMIC to Host Screening of Bad River Documentary at LSSU
BAY MILLS — Bay Mills Indian Community will host a screening of the documentary Bad River: A Story of Defiance on Friday, March 15 at 7 p.m. The movie will take place at Lake Superior State University’s Arts Center in Sault Ste. Marie. This event is free and open to […]
New Electronic Medical Record and MyChart Portal Coming to MyMichigan Patients
Beginning April 6, a new patient portal, called MyChart, will replace the current MHealth (Meditech) portal for all future portal transactions such as self-scheduling, viewing your medical records or test results, messaging your provider, refilling prescriptions, online bill pay and more. Read on to learn how you can access your new […]
Missing Man in Paradise Area Found Alive and Well
On Thursday 3-7-2024 near mid-day the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a remote area near Paradise, Mi for a missing persons complaint. A man was searching for his friend and found his vehicle stuck on a trail in the snow. His friend was nowhere to be found and […]
Soo Locks Open Early for 2024 Shipping Season
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan will open the Poe Lock to all marine traffic at 6 p.m. on March 22, marking the start of the 2024 Great Lakes shipping season. The shipping industry requested an early season opening due the urging of […]
Robot competition comes to LSSU in March
Robots probably won’t take over the world. But they will take over Lake Superior State University for three days in March. In the university’s annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition, 40 teams of teenagers from high schools all over the state will compete at LSSU March […]
Upcoming DNR meetings, plus a vacancy on ORV workgroup
The Department of Natural Resources is committed to providing Michigan residents the opportunity to share input and ideas on policy decisions, programs and other aspects of natural resource management and outdoor recreation opportunities. One important avenue for this input is at meetings of the public bodies that advise the DNR […]
19 Undocumented Illegal Aliens Make it to the Sault on a Bus
SAULT STE MARIE, MI – It all started at, presumably, the southern border where everything is clear as mud. 19 non-resident aliens entered the US and somehow came into possession of a converted school bus. They drove that bus from – wherever – north into Grand Traverse County where they […]
Man charged with Assault Less Than Murder against local woman
On Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, officers from the Sault Ste. Marie Police Department were dispatched to a residence on Rapids Drive for a 911 hang-up call. Chippewa County Central Dispatch had received a call that sounded like two subjects arguing but dispatch couldn’t reach anyone after the call had ended. […]