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Sunday, May 18, 2025
It was a sunny and hot Tuesday evening in Gaylord, and the Sault High Blue Devils sent a select roster of athletes to compete in the Northern Michigan Meet of Champions. Seventeen schools were invited to this meet, with all four divisions represented. Specific requirements were set for each event, […]
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Junior thrower Jenna Fleming (Hilton Beach, Ont.) came away with a tenth place finish at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field National Championship Meet on Saturday to earn her second consecutive USTFCCCA Second Team All-American honors in the women’s javelin event. Fleming would initially throw her […]
The Sault Area Middle School Track Team wrapped up their track season with a Straits Area Conference Meet in St Ignace on Monday. The girls and boys teams, coached by Ginny Shadnaw, Kelly Beaumont, Noreen Sweet and Stephanie Vert, had a short but successful season. The girls team won the Cheboygan […]
Troopers from the St. Ignace Post are investigating a homicide that occurred in Mackinac County, just north of Hessel. Troopers were called to the scene late in the evening on 5/25/23 to a report of a disturbance involving a firearm at a residence. Upon arrival, troopers observed a deceased 73-yr-old […]
On Tuesday the Girls and Boys Varsity Track and Field teams traveled to Cheboygan to compete in the Straits Area Conference championships, and both teams came home as champions. The girls finished with 143.83 points, over Cheboygan 84, St. Ignace 62.67, Newberry 38.5, and Rudyard 17. The boys won with […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and ’70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping “What’s Love Got to […]
LANSING, Mich. – Today, Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II kicked off the first meeting of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Council, which will inform Michigan’s juvenile justice reform efforts through the lived experiences of those who were impacted by the system. The Advisory Council was established within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) after a unanimous recommendation from the Michigan Task Force on Juvenile […]
It was yet another cold, damp, rainy day at the track and on the field, but the Sault High Blue Devils Varsity teams performed well in the MHSAA UP Region 41-1 qualifying meet at Marquette Senior High School on Friday afternoon. The girls, boys, and boys adaptive teams were all […]
I was going through some old papers recently and found a brochure published by the National Association of Manufacturers. It’s from around 1940. I want to share it with you. I am posting this as it was written in the brochure. I did not change wording or punctuation. Not only […]
I am a 66-year-old woman who wants a do-over. Anyone close to my age probably remembers those old Morton salt commercials with the slogan, “When it rains, it pours.” That’s my life. I read a book recently, and the main character’s daughter was a five or six-year-old girl who told […]