Nearly two hundred hockey teams competed for some impressive hardware Sunday in Saint Ignace. The 14th Annual Labatt Blue Pond Hockey Tournament wrapped up this weekend on Moran Bay. 184 teams across 23 divisions from across the country battled it. They played on rinks with ice 17 inches thick. The […]
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Emergency Services Conduct Practice Exercise on Sugar Island
Sugar Island Fire and EMS, practiced emergency shuttling of people off of the island this morning with the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office. Chippewa Co Sheriff’s Office used both the Hovercraft and the Emergency Rescue Airboat. We were practicing options to prepare for those times the ferry is not able to […]
Lakers Victorious in Canada with a 4-1 Win
SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario – The Lakers closed out their Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) with a 4-1 victory against the University of Alabama Huntsville Chargers in a historic game as the teams played in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario at the GFL Memorial Gardens on Saturday, Feb. 15. The game […]
Longtime PA announcer Dave Gonyeau to call his final basketball game at LSSU Saturday
By Linda Bouvet SAULT STE. MARIE – While NCAA Division II basketball has changed dramatically in four decades, fans and opponents have known one constant at Lake Superior State. The familiar faces of LSSU’s basketball scoring crew. Public address announcer Dave Gonyeau, clock operator John Askwith and shot clock operator […]
Doris Ann Powers
Obituary to be posted soon.
Kim Irene D’Autremont
Kim Irene D’Autremont, age 53, of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan passed away Thursday morning, February 13, 2020, at her home. Kim was born on July 16, 1966, in Boston, Massachusetts to the late Nelson and Irene (Moody) McLean. Kim served her country in the United States Coast Guard both in Traverse […]
Plow crash injures one in Chippewa County
TROUT LAKE TOWNSHIP, MI– M-123 was closed for nearly three-and-a-half hours Friday morning following a crash between a vehicle and a plow truck. Michigan State Police from the Sault Ste. Marie Post say it happened around 7:55 a.m. north of Trout Lake in Trout Lake Township. A vehicle driven by […]
Trident Detectives have been investigating a group of people believed to be involved with several meth labs in the Sault Ste Marie area. On 2-13-2020, while running surveillance on this group, Detectives were able to identify several people who were actively purchasing components commonly used in Meth Labs. These purchases […]
Local man arrested on multiple sex crime and child porn charges
The Chippewa Co Sheriff’s Office, Detective Bureau, has been investigating a Sexual Assault and a Manufacturing Child Pornography case, ultimately resulting in the arrest of the suspect. The initial crimes occurred outside the city of Sault Ste. Marie, but within Chippewa County. This investigation resulted in a search warrant being […]
Lake Superior ice cover on pace for lowest in 8 years
There’s plenty of open water on Lake Superior this winter. Analysis of ice cover on Lake Superior shows the big lake is only about 11 percent ice-covered as of Feb. 11. Compare that to last year when the lake was 72 percent covered at this time. The entire Great Lakes […]