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Friday, May 9, 2025
So far, bridge traffic has been cut in half on a year-to-year basis with commercial trucks and commuter traffic making up the vast majority of crossings last month. Year-to-date, 264,811 vehicles crossed the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, a sharp drop of 57.2 per cent from last year. Traffic crossing […]
Unionized state workers would have to confirm their willingness to pay dues each year under a proposed rule change before the Michigan Civil Service Commission. The proposal has drawn the ire of some Michigan Democrats, including Rep. Terry Sabo, D-Muskegon Township, who called it “an attack on working people.” Free-market […]
(9and10News.com) – Over the weekend, a movie about the Battle of Kamdesh debuted called “The Outpost,” and it has a special Northern Michigan connection. The Battle of Kamdesh was a deadly day in 2009 for U.S. Forces in Afghanistan and the movie tells the brave story of the soldiers there. […]
MLive – Michigan’s most-traveled roadways currently don’t require tolls – but the state now has the go-ahead to find out if adding toll roads might make sense in the state. Legislation sponsored by Republican Sen. John Bizon of Battle Creek and signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Wednesday afternoon tasks the […]
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Board of Directors approved a direct services program July 6 to help tribal members. It will be funded with $3.5 million in Covid-19 CARES Act monies. Tribal Chairperson Aaron Payment said, on behalf of the Board of […]
Charlie Daniels, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame who sang “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” recorded with Bob Dylan and was a vocal supporter of U.S. veterans, died Monday morning after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. He was 83. By the time the Charlie Daniels Band topped the charts […]
CHIPPEWA County, Michigan – As of 10:00 a.m. on July 6, 2020, Chippewa County Health Department (CCHD) is reporting a total 12 confirmed cases of COVID-19, plus one probable case (“probable case” means a symptomatic individual who has not been tested, but has had direct exposure to a confirmed positive […]
(9and10news.com) = While many Independence Day parades were canceled due to the pandemic, three veterans took it upon themselves to walk in Sault Ste. Marie. Roger Merchberger, Paul Steinkohl and John Leigh are veterans from American Legion Post 3. They decided on the nation’s birthday to honor the ideals of […]
A sheep farmer who appears to have posed holding a large, dead wolf on his Upper Peninsula farm might now regret the snapshot. So might his father, who waited off-camera to remove the trophy so the trapper and his wife could turn its fangs, pelt and skull into jewelry and […]
CHIPPEWA County, Michigan – The Chippewa County Health Department has identified the Big Bear All in One Fitness Club located in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan as a possible exposure site for COVID-19. If you were in the Big Bear All In One Fitness Club Monday through Friday between June 22, […]