This is an update on upcoming construction projects within the City of Sault Ste. Marie. Ifyou have room for photos or maps in your article, please let us know. The Easterday Ave. Truck Route Reconstruction and Carbide Dock Port Reconstructionprojects are starting back up in April – May. Both projects […]
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Invasive Phragmites the Wetland Reed Wanting to Take Over our Wetlands!
If you have driven down I-75 while traveling downstate, you have probably noticed largereeds with quite puffy seed heads, commonly in the median or in road ditches, maybeeven in a swamp or marsh or any kind of wetland. Those reeds are probably a plantknown as Phragmites. Phragmites is a perennial […]
Registered Sex Offender in Petoskey Found Harboring a Juvenile Runaway from West Virginia
EMMET COUNTY, MI. On Wednesday evening, April 10, 2024, the Gaylord Regional CommunicationCenter was contacted by a member of a police agency in West Virgina requesting assistance from theMichigan State Police (MSP). Troopers from the MSP Gaylord Post spoke with an officer from the WestVirginia police department. The officer told […]
Showcasing the DNR: Conservation officers teach wildlife crime scene investigation techniques
As part of their mission to protect the state’s natural and cultural resources, the environment and the health and safety of the public through effective law enforcement and education, Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers have found innovative ways to deliver science-based education. It started during the 1940s, when […]
NMC Signs Articulation Agreements With Lake Superior State University For Engineering Majors
Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) has inked a new alliance with Lake Superior State University (LSSU), the college announced Monday. Under a series of new articulation agreements between NMC and LSSU, engineering students at NMC will “have four more opportunities to complete a bachelor’s degree.” “The agreements allow students to complete […]
City of Sault Ste. Marie Seasonal Load and Speed Restrictions Lifted
Sault Ste. Marie, MI — Effective at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, April 15th, Seasonal Load andSpeed Restrictions will be lifted on the City Street Systems until weather dictates that weneed to reinstate them. Please review the City’s updated Truck Route Map atwww.saultcity.com/engineering/page/truck-routes-seasonal-load-restrictionsPlease use Oxcart Permitting System and call the City […]
Patient Care and Services Will Continue Despite Impending Strike
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – After another full day of negotiating, an agreement between MyMichigan Health and the Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) nurse’s union at MyMichigan Medical Center Sault was not met. The strike notice issued to MyMichigan from the MNA on April 3, 2024, will be go into effect on […]
O.J. Simpson Dead at 76 After Cancer Battle
O.J. Simpson — one of the most infamous high-profile Americans of all time — is dead after a cancer battle. The former NFL great — who stood trial for the double-murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, in the ’90s, only to be acquitted — passed away Wednesday […]
Democrats pounce on Arizona abortion ruling and say it could help them in November’s election
PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats pounced Tuesday on an Arizona Supreme Court ruling that permits enforcement of an 1864 law effectively banning abortion in the state, blaming former President Donald Trump and Republicans and pressing for political advantage on an issue that could dominate a critical 2024 battleground. The ruling permits […]
Michigan school shooter’s parents sentenced to 10 years in prison for not stopping a ‘runaway train’
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday as a Michigan judge lamented missed opportunities that could have prevented their teenage son from possessing a gun and killing four students in 2021. “These convictions […]