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Saturday, March 15, 2025
The Mackinac Bridge tower painting project has won yet another national award, this time from the National Council of Structural Engineers (NCSEA). Ruby+Associates of Bingham Farms was named the Outstanding Project Winner in the Other Structures category of the NCSEA’s Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards. The firm designed the movable painting […]
While high schools and other businesses like casinos and bowling alleys will be able to reopen under an updated order from the Department of Human Services, the ban on indoor dining will remain until mid-January, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced today. High schools are beginning winter break after today, so they will effectively […]
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal grand jury has charged six men with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in what investigators say was a plot by anti-government extremists who were angry over her coronavirus policies. The indictment released Thursday by U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge levied the conspiracy […]
SAULT STE MARIE, MICH. The Michigan State Police (MSP) are seeking motivated individuals who desire an exciting and rewarding career as a trooper. The MSP is planning to hire more troopers in 2021 to fill vacancies throughout the state, including those in the Upper Peninsula. The MSP Sault Ste. Marie […]
I came to the Sault in about 1865. I went to the convent school where there were many girls including Mrs. George Kemp, Mrs. Colwell, The Prenzlauer girls, Sofia Trempe, Flora Londerville, Mary Bernier, Mary Ann Galley, Sofia LaLonde, Jimmy Ryan, and others. On the way to school, we passed […]
Jason Kenneth Lucas Sr., age 64, of Houghton Lake, Michigan, died December 11, 2020, in Cedarville, Michigan. He was born February 2, 1956, in Trenton, Michigan. Jason grew up in Lincoln Park, Michigan. He graduated from Lincoln Park High School and had played hockey for Ecorse High School. He married […]
Conrad Leonard Izzard, age 80, of Cedarville, Michigan, passed away Tuesday, December 15, 2020, with his wife at his side at the Hospice House of the EUP in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. He was born on March 17, 1940 in Cedarville to Luke Lee Izzard and Edna Esther (Webb) Izzard. […]
Scientist and author Dr. David Suzuki describes Canadian opposition to shutdown as shameful MARQUETTE, MI–Canada’s most venerated scientist, who was once voted among the top five most trusted people in the nation, has endorsed Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s enforcement to shut down Enbridge’s obsolete, Line 5 crude oil pipeline in the […]
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The Lake Superior State men’s basketball team was ranked third in the 2020-21 GLIAC North Division Men’s Basketball Preseason Coaches Poll as announced by the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) on Wednesday, Dec. 16. The Lakers received 40 points, which included one first place vote […]
President-elect Joe Biden has selected former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to be his energy secretary. The Washington-based news website Politico was among the first to report the story, which then appeared to be confirmed in a news release from U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, who is a close friend of both Biden’s […]