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State To Let Contact Sports Resume

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will announce today that the state is allowing contact sports to resume, with some safeguards, following one of the more intense waves of opposition her administration has seen in response to its efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, EUP News has learned. Contact sports have […]

E. James Mertaugh

E. James “Jim” Mertaugh, 89, of Hessel, Michigan, earned his Eternal Reward early Tuesday evening, February 2, 2021, at Pennington Home, Pickford.   Eugene James Mertaugh  was the youngest child born October 13, 1931, in Sault Ste. Marie to parents the late Eugene Joseph and Helen Catherine (Bailey) Mertaugh.  He was […]

Mary Weinman

Mary Weinman, age 82, of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, died on January 12, 2021. She was born in Sault Ste. Marie on March 8, 1938 to Alfred and Helen (Bailey) Johndrow. Mary grew up in Sault Ste. Marie and graduated from Sault Ste. Marie High School. She began working at […]

Elizabeth Earns

Elizabeth Ann Earns passed away on Sunday, January 31, 2021. She was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, Richard Emery Earns Jr.  A loving mother, Elizabeth is survived by her five children,  Michael Richard, Stephen William (Raquel), Cindy Lou Peabody, Thomas Lee, and Timothy Brian; seven grandchildren, […]

Lake Superior State University Receives $950,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance Grant to Support Economic Diversification Efforts in Michigan Opportunity Zone

Sault Ste. Marie, MI — Lake Superior State University received a $956,858 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) within the U.S. Department of Commerce to purchase lab equipment to build capacity at the Center for Freshwater Research and Education (CFRE). The project, to be located […]

Robin Bedell

Robin R. Bedell, 70, of Bay Mills, Michigan passed away on January 29, 2021 at War Memorial Hospital with his loving wife Kelly by his side. Robin was born on June 30, 1950 to Henry J. Bedell and Bernice A. (Teeple) Bedell in Detroit, Michigan. He was the 4th child […]

Group Files Lawsuit To Force Winter Contact Sports Restart

Let Them Play – the group of student-athletes and advocates wanting to allow winter contact sports to begin competing – filed a lawsuit today in the Court of Claims against Department of Health and Human Services Director Elizabeth Hertel claiming several violations of the state and U.S. constitutions along with […]

Jean Marie Ross

Jean Marie Ross, age 81, of Rudyard, Michigan, died on January 26, 2021 in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. She was born on July 20, 1939, in Rudyard, to Adelord David and Alma Dagmar (Larson) Royer. Jean grew up in Rudyard and graduated from Rudyard High School with the class of […]