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Tuesday, January 7, 2025
James Robert (Jim) Cornwell, age 78, of Hessel, Michigan, passed away at the Pennington House in Pickford, Michigan, January 24, 2021 after battling lung cancer for several months. He was born September 30, 1942 in Dearborn, Michigan to Jesse Lawrence Cornwell and Mary Elizabeth (Hey) Montgomery. Growing up in the […]
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The Lake Superior State women’s basketball team fell to the Ferris State Bulldogs by a final score of 83-65 on Tuesday, Jan. 26 in the Bud Cooper Gymnasium in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. in a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) game. First Half The Lakers […]
Olivet High School boys basketball coach Matt Seidl gathered his team around him at practice Friday to tell them the latest bad news. The season had already been delayed several times by state mandates forbidding close contact for fear of spread of COVID-19. High school winter sports teams were supposed […]
Fern Lois Weber, age 90, of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan passed away January 23, 2021, at War Memorial Hospital Long Term Care. She was born on February 2, 1930, in Trout Lake, Michigan to Alexander and Bertha (Wren) Beaudoin. Fern worked at McDonalds Hotel in Trout Lake for 10 years […]
Barbara Lynn Campbell, age 78, of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan passed away on January 22, 2021, at War Memorial Hospital. Barbara was born on August 3, 1942, in Lansing, Michigan, to the late Donald and Elsie (Adams) Perkins. She graduated from Sexton High School and earned her Bachelor’s Degree in […]
William Vance “Bill” Badour, age 53, of Cedarville, Michigan, died on January 18, 2021, in Detroit, Michigan. He was born May 17, 1967, in Trenton, Michigan, to William and Ann (Nishanian) Badour. Bill grew up in Hillman, Michigan. At a young age, Bill won a contest selling newspapers and his […]
The following statement is attributable to Mark Uyl, executive director of the Michigan High School Athletic Association, on the topic of Winter contact sports – girls and boys basketball, competitive cheer, ice hockey and wrestling – remaining on pause for contact activities including competition until Feb. 21, per the most recent […]
A 30-year-old man has died following a confrontation with police at an Albert Street East apartment building Saturday, the Special Investigations Unit has confirmed. The full text of the release from SIU follows: A 30-year-old man has died following a confrontation with police at an Albert Street East apartment building Saturday, the […]
The Sault Ste. Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a fatal collision involving a snowmobile and a pickup truck near Ranger Lake on Sunday evening. A news release issued today by the OPP states that the victim, a 40-year-old from Sault Ste. Marie, was pronounced deceased […]
January 25, 2021 — The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is awarding a state Transportation Economic Development Fund (TEDF) Category F grant of $375,000 to the City of Sault Ste. Marie. “From day one, I’ve been clear that we need to invest more in our state’s roads,” said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. […]
