Lansing — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s appointee to a state commission that regulates hunting and fishing said Thursday that he made a “personal decision” decades ago that “killing things was not for me.” George Heartwell, the former mayor of Grand Rapids, made the comments during a Michigan Senate Advice and […]
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Chippewa County Sheriff Receives Donation
On 2-19-2020 Dep Larry Hough and I attended the EUPSC (EUP SNOWMOBILE CLUB) meeting which was held in Hulbert Mi. EUPSC donated $1,500 to the Sheriff’s Office to assist in our Snowmobile Patrols. Sheriff’s Offices all across mid and eastern U.P. were in attendance and received a donation. Dep Larry […]
DEPUTY SHERIFFS IN CHIPPEWA COUNTY HIT BY DRUNK DRIVER
Deputies Sheriff’s from the Chippewa Co Sheriff’s Office were on a traffic stop on the I-75 Bus Spur, in the Sault Ste Marie area, just after 10 pm on 2-20-2020 when the incident occurred. During the traffic stop a different vehicle crashed into the back passenger corner of the patrol […]
Do I need a permit to control wildlife on my farm?
By Erin Lizotte and James DeDecker, Michigan State University Extension, and Tim Wilson, USDA Wildlife Services While wildlife have aesthetic and recreational value, large numbers of wildlife have the potential to cause damage to agricultural producers. Producers may encounter damage to their crops and might not be aware of all […]
Mackinac Island Fire Responds to Restaurant Fire
At 10:45pm Wednesday night a passerby on Hoban Street saw flames in the window of the Village Inn Restaurant and called 911. Units arrived on scene to a working fire in a restaurant. Firefighters went to the second floor of the building to evacuate occupants while other firefighters brought in […]
Opening of the Cannabis Center of Excellence for the First Cannabis Program in the United States
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Lake Superior State University and Agilent Technologies Inc. have formed a strategic relationship to facilitate education and research in cannabis chemistry and analysis establishing the Cannabis Center of Excellence (CoE). The CoE is a state-of-the-art facility aimed at a convergence of education and research across […]
Local Resident Needs Help Finding Source of Photo
This is one of our volunteers, Delpha Johnson. Recently Delpha was reunited with this photo and some Valentine’s Day cards that belonged to her sister Arvilla, 77 years ago. A box of old Valentine’s Day cards was donated one day and when another volunteer sorted through the box she found […]
CLMCD to receive $500,000 grant for Munuscong River Watershed Restoration
SAULT STE MARIE, MICHIGAN, The Chippewa Luce Mackinac Conservation District (CLMCD) is pleased to announce they have been awarded a $500,000 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant to help protect the Munuscong River Watershed under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) program. Funding under the program will help reduce nutrient loading […]
Michigan Works! and partners team up to host Job Fairs in the Eastern Upper Peninsula this Spring
EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA — Employers and Job Seekers will have the opportunity to connect at four free community job fairs this spring. Job Seekers will be able to apply and interview for a variety of year-round and seasonal jobs in one convenient location, while Employers can save timeand money by […]
Trump commutes sentence of former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, pardons ex-NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he’d commuted the prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was impeached and removed from office in 2009 on corruption charges, and pardoned former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik. The news comes hours after Trump signed an executive order granting a full […]