ELLIOT LAKE, Ont. – A Chase Tallaire man advantage marker with 2:22 remaining in regulation was the difference as the Soo Eagles rallied for a 4-3 win over the Elliot Lake Red Wings in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League contest Friday at Centennial Arena. Dayton Clarke did things going for […]
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One Month Remains to Submit Words and Terms to Banish for 2022
Sault Ste. Marie, MI — Last year, people across the U.S. and around the world wearied of hearing and reading about COVID-19. What words and terms rate bad or excessive this year? One month remains to submit entries for Lake Superior State University’s annual tongue-in-cheek Banished Words List. The deadline to […]
Lorri Anne Brown
Lorri Anne Brown passed away October 25, 2021 at her home surrounded by family after a brief battle with cancer. Lorri was born in Sault Ste Marie, MI on February 12, 1966, to Leroy and Nancy Bumstead. She graduated from Sault Area High School in 1984 and earned her bachelor’s […]
State’s top court looks at law that makes convicts pay bills
DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to look again at a law that allows communities to collect millions of dollars from poor criminal defendants to pay salaries, keep lights on and wax floors in courthouses up and down the state. The issue is whether it’s unconstitutional, especially when a […]
Whitmer Vetoes Bills Toughening Voter ID Requirements
Bills that would require voters to show identification when voting in person, supply identity verification information when voting absentee and make state IDs available for free to low-income persons were vetoed Friday by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Senate Bills 303 and 304 would have removed the current voter identification system, where voters can […]
Donna Marie Schneider
Donna Marie Schneider, 75, of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan passed away October 26, 2021, at War Memorial Hospital. Donna was born on July 6, 1946, in Flint, Michigan to the late Loy and Bessie (Wirebaugh) Storms. Donna was a member of the Eagle’s Auxiliary, and she enjoyed making crafts. Donna is […]
Sault Ste. Marie Man Arrested on Methamphetamine Charges
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich – A Sault Ste. Marie man is behind bars after being arrested on drug charges. 37–year–old Michael Causley was arrested on September 29th after the Sault Ste. Marie Police Department received a complaint about Methamphetamine inside a hotel. Causley was arrested later that night. He was arraigned […]
A remote Upper Peninsula white pine has been crowned Michigan’s tallest tree
MARQUETTE COUNTY, MICH. — It was after nightfall during a backpacking trip through the Upper Peninsula’s rugged McCormick Wilderness this spring when Nick Hansen first spotted the giant Eastern white pine. Towering on the banks of a stream, illuminated only by the beam of his headlamp, the tree was so […]
War Memorial Hospital Signs Agreement to Join MidMichigan Health
War Memorial Hospital and MidMichigan Health have signed an agreement which would make War Memorial the eighth Medical Center in the MidMichigan Health system. War Memorial and MidMichigan leadership expect the affiliation to be completed in early 2022. “This is a very exciting time for our organization. We are pleased […]
Cadillac Man Arrested After Leading Police on Chase
A 39-year-old Cadillac man was arrested Sunday after leading law enforcement on a chase through downtown Cadillac and eventually onto M-115. Around noon Sunday, officers from the Cadillac Police Department attempted to stop a Ford Ranger on north Lake Street near Haynes Street for having an improper license plate on […]












