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Friday, April 26, 2024
Dale Edward Melvin, age 58, of Drummond Island, Michigan, died on May 26, 2021, at his home on Drummond Island. He was born on March 4, 1963, in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan to John Kenneth and Renee Lillian (Ruelius) Melvin. Dale had a birth story as unique as the great […]
LANSING, Mich. — Governor Gretchen Whitmer today issued Executive Directive 2021-02 to help bridge the digital divide by establishing the Michigan High-Speed Internet Office (MIHI) to make high-speed internet more affordable and accessible. With high-speed internet becoming a necessity in our educational, professional, and personal lives, the new office will be dedicated to coordinating and advancing the State’s efforts to ensure that every home and business in […]
Sandra V. “Sandy” DiMartino, age 57, of Trout Lake, Michigan passed away in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan after a short battle with cancer and a long battle with Scleroderma. She was born February 29, 1964 in St. Ignace, Michigan to Robert Anthony and Anna Marie (LaDuke) Sharp. Sandy grew up […]
ST. IGNACE, Mich (WJMN) – It is officially that time of year again. Tourists are making their way back up to the Upper Peninsula and the Mackinac Bridge traffic was in full force. Cars lined the bridge today as people began making the journey to the U.P to celebrate the […]
At approximately 12:15 pm on 5-26-2021, a patrol sergeant was waived down by a subject near the W. Portage Bridge over the Cloverland Coop power canal. As the officer approached in his vehicle he saw a subject jump from the bridge into the canal. The sergeant immediately radioed to the […]
CALUMET, MI – Authorities are working to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed three buildings in an Upper Peninsula historic downtown. State and federal agencies are working with the local sheriff’s office in Calumet, and are treating the incident as a crime, The Associated Press reports. The fire […]
A nonprofit set up to cover the costs of the transition process between the time Governor Gretchen Whitmer won election in 2018 and took office about seven weeks later paid almost $27,000 to cover the cost of a chartered flight for Ms. Whitmer to visit her ailing father in Florida, the governor’s […]
(Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Sault Ste. Marie, MI) – Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the currentclosure of the U.S. / Canada border to non-essential travel, the Annual Bridge Walk & Bicycle Paradeat the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge will not be held in 2021. The International Bridge Walk […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer threatened Tuesday to go after Enbridge’s profits from a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the company defies her order to shut it down. The Democratic governor issued the warning in a letter to the Canadian energy transport company on the eve of […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people will be “horrible.” India’s official count of coronavirus cases surpassed […]
