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Thursday, May 8, 2025
UPDATE – On August 11, Jacob Russell Mckerchie, a 28 year-old from Sault Ste. Marie, was released from the War Memorial Hospital and lodged at the Chippewa County Correctional Facility by the Sault Ste. Marie Police Department. On August 12, Jacob Mckerchie was arraigned in the 91st District Court on […]
Sault Sainte Marie, MI – September 2021 will bring a change for the 30+ year old medical practice of Riverside Medical Associates, P.C. (“Riverside Medical”). The founding and long-standing owners of Riverside Medical, Drs. Ockenfels, Mackie, and Tetzlaff, announce that an agreement has been reached with War Memorial Hospital, Inc. […]
Troopers from the Manistique Outpost were assisted by Sault Tribal Police Dept, Manistique Public Safety, Schoolcraft County Sheriff’s Dept, and DNR officers in the attempt to locate a wanted subject out of St. Louis Missouri yesterday afternoon. At approximately 3:45pm, a “be on the lookout” (BOL) was issued by St. […]
CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich. (WLUC) – A Chippewa County woman is $50,000 richer after deciding to get her COVID-19 vaccine. 66-year-old Diedre “DJ” Malloy, of Kincheloe, was announced as a daily winner for those who were vaccinated on July 20, in the winner announcements made on August 4. Malloy has esophageal […]
Tour da Yoop starts on Friday, August 6, in St. Ignace. Riders can select all or part of a 1,200-mile loop that touches all 15 UP counties and countless small towns. The full tour is composed of 10 sections, averaging 120 miles per section. Cyclists stay in each city for […]
Tammy Shepard was defeated in her St. Ignace city council bid in the city’s Tuesday, August 3, 2021 primary election, losing to six other candidates who will vie for three council seats in November. Ms. Shepard received 119 votes, lowest among the seven candidates. Incumbents James Clapperton, with 243 votes, […]
Not all heroes wear capes, and some of them don’t look like we think. Facebook cannot abide by this. In their version of the world, heroes to be honored must fit their goals of intersectionality and racial equity. Especially if the hero happens to be a police officer. That’s already far […]
Upper Peninsula Congressman Jack Bergman is accusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of threatening his staff with being arrested if they don’t follow her new mask mandate. The Watersmeet Republican, writing in his weekly newsletter to constituents, says that “threatening staff (nearly all of whom are vaccinated) to wear a mask […]
MSP Sault Ste. Marie Post is seeking assistance in locating a man believed to have been involved in a theft of fuel from the Tone Road Convenience Station. The subject, described as a white male, approximately sixty years old, with a grey beard, and driving a tan, Chevrolet Suburban, pumped […]
Carl Levin, Michigan’s longest-serving U.S. senator who died Thursday at age 87, was remembered by family and friends as a man who personified integrity. U.S. Rep. Andy Levin, D-Bloomfield Twp., said his uncle always put the public good above self-interest and was honored by the trust the people of Michigan put […]