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• Holiday Video Postcard. Share your message far and wide.

  06-12-2018 23:53
  Pass along your well wishes this holiday season with a video message. If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine the impact a heart filled video message can have! Come visit our green screen installation in Station Mall in front of GNC & Eclipse this Friday and Saturday between 5pm – 8pm! For a […]
  
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• Sault Ste. Marie Receives $20.7M Grant to Rebuild Alford Park, Old Carbide Grounds - 9&10 News

  06-12-2018 23:47 via 9and10news.com
  Sault Ste. Marie Receives $20.7M Grant to Rebuild Alford Park, Old Carbide Grounds  9&10 News“This is critical to help show local support for the future locks project.” Big news for Sault Sainte Marie and a major project there. A $20.7 million grant put the Soo ...
  
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• Markets partially recover after sinking on lower crude and trade worries

  06-12-2018 23:30
  TORONTO — North American stock markets partially recovered from deep losses Thursday amid falling oil prices and worries that the arrest of a senior executive at Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei could derail progress in China-U.S. trade talks. Nervousness pervaded markets early as hopeful signs about a trade truce between the world’s two largest economies […]
  
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• Martone ‘well-suited’ to head SAH Foundation: Chair

  06-12-2018 23:23 via saultstar.com
  Teresa Martone has been appointed Sault Area Hospital Foundation executive director.
  Matron most recently served as the executive director of the Group Health Centre Trust Fund and director of communications. She also brings nearly 20 years of experience in the fields of marketing and communications and, for more than a decade, held the position of director of client services for Lucidia Ltd. Matron also volunteers with Sault Community Career Centre, currently serving as vice-chair of its board
  
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• Canada to send hundreds of observers to Ukraine presidential election

  06-12-2018 22:33
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Press has learned that Canada is planning to send hundreds of election observers to Ukraine to prevent Russian meddling in its March 2019 presidential elections. Government officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, say as many as 500 monitors could be sent in missions run by the Organization for Security and Co-operation […]
  
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• MOREAU, Cecille Rachelle

  06-12-2018 22:13
  Cecille Moreau passed away, with family by her side, while at the North Shore Health Network in Blind River on December 6, 2018 at the age of 71. She leaves behind her devoted and beloved husband of 48 years Jean-Claude Moreau, her loving children J.C. Jr. (Nichole) and Lise (Emmanuel), and her precious grandchildren Carly, […]
  
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• Canadians receive emails from Marriott about recent personal data breach

  06-12-2018 21:52
  TORONTO — Canadians have started receiving emails from Marriott International, informing them of a recent breach of customers’ personal data held by their Starwood hotel properties. The U.S.-based hotel giant, which is also behind brands including W Hotels, St. Regis, Sheraton and Westin, says in the email that the breach may have impacted up to 500 million guests. The company says the […]
  
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• CAPT launches new letter writing campaign

  06-12-2018 21:49 via saultstar.com
  The Coalition for Algoma Passenger Trains is launching another lobby effort designed to urge the federal government that passenger rail service is necessary to get move people in Northern Ontario.
  The group points to forced closure of major highways as a result of forest fires in Northern Ontario last summer. They note that highways are the only means of accessing communities in remote areas of the province and a passenger train provides alternative and safe service.
  In addition, climate change
  
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• Online Sexual Abuse of Children Prevalent in Ontario. OPP

  06-12-2018 21:34
  Police Services, Agencies Combine to Protect Children (TORONTO, ON) – Numerous charges have been laid across Ontario, in what police are calling a snapshot of one month’s worth of work by Internet Child Exploitation Investigators that make up the Provincial Strategy to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation on the Internet. At a media […]
  
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• Cooking fire badly damages Queen Street West home

  06-12-2018 20:53 via saultstar.com
  A cooking fire caused extensive damage to a home at 627 Queen St. W., on Wednesday.
  A resident left a home with a pot of oil on a stove, said public education officer Aaron Gravelle of Sault Ste. Marie Fire Services. A fire started shortly before 6 p.m. No one was hurt.A family just moved into the two-storey home west of James Street.Low heat should be used when cooking with oil. Cooking should never be left unattended, said Gravelle.
  
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• Winter will be colder than usual: The Weather Network

  06-12-2018 20:34 via saultstar.com
  Winter will be just as white for Sault Ste. Marie residents, but likelier frostier.The Weather Network anticipates a frigid blast in the first half of December followed by another wave of colder-than-usual temperatures in the latter half of winter.“The cold we do think will persist throughout the winter as a whole,” meteorologist Brad Rousseau told The Sault Star in a recent interview. “Make sure you bundle up.”The usual daytime high in December is – 4.5 C. The Weat
  
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• Naturopath convicted of manslaughter in death of patient to be heard by high court

  06-12-2018 20:28
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it will hear the appeal of a Montreal naturopath convicted of manslaughter in the death of an elderly patient. Mitra Javanmardi was facing a possible prison sentence last May after the Quebec Court of Appeal overturned a 2015 acquittal and entered a guilty verdict in the death of […]
  
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• Feds reject push to amend Criminal Code to outlaw forced sterilization

  06-12-2018 20:05
  OTTAWA — Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould’s office says the federal government doesn’t plan to change the law to make coercing someone into being sterilized a crime. First Nations leaders gathered at a special meeting of the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa today want the government to amend the Criminal Code following a resolution passed by the […]
  
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• Algoma Steel CEO Kalyan Ghosh Talks Past Present & Future of the Steel Plant

  06-12-2018 19:35
  Last week Algoma Steel CEO Kalyan Ghosh announced that the company had emerged from the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA). Today he sat down with Lou Anne Young to talk about the past, present and the future of the Steel plant. Watch the video above.    
  
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• Open Construction Tendering Legislation would impact local contract bidding

  06-12-2018 19:30
  Toronto (December 6, 2018) – The Progressive Contractors Association of Canada (PCA) is applauding the Ontario government’s ‘Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act’ that will restore fairness to Ontario construction workers, employers and taxpayers and allow all municipalities in the province to maximize their infrastructure investments. “This groundbreaking legislation is a giant step forward in treating taxpayers, workers and […]
  
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• HEALTH ALERT: Retailers nationwide recalling infants ibuprofen - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  06-12-2018 19:21 via sooeveningnews.com
  HEALTH ALERT: Retailers nationwide recalling infants ibuprofen  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsSome of the nation's largest retailers are recalling infants' ibuprofen after its manufacturer found it might have higher doses of the drug than intended.
  
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• Pritchett plays Soo Blaster

  06-12-2018 19:15 via saultstar.com
  Canadian country singer Aaron Pritchett’s Out on the Town tour includes an appearance in Sault Ste. Marie in early 2019.The three-time Juno nominee performs at Soo Blaster on Feb. 6. Kira Isabella and David James share the bill.Pritchett’s tour stops in more than 35 Canadian cities including London, Barrie, Ottawa and Montreal.His most recent album, The Score, was released in 2016, following Body of Work: A Collection of Hits a year earlier.Tickets to Pritchett’s Sault show go
  
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• Residential Fire in City’s West end (update)

  06-12-2018 19:00
  SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – December 6, 2018 –  On December 5th, 2018, Sault Ste. Marie fire crews received a call of a residential fire in the city’s west-end. At 6 p.m., fire crews responded to a fire in a single family dwelling located in the 600 block of Queen Street West. Upon arrival crews […]
  
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• ISIL threat in Iraq still demands Canadian troops: Defence chief

  06-12-2018 18:57
  OTTAWA — Canada’s top military officer says it’s too soon to say when Canadian troops will no longer be needed in Iraq. Defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance says many of the political, economic and social problems that contributed to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s rise more than four years ago remain. And […]
  
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• Dick Cheney biopic Vice tops Golden Globes nominations - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  06-12-2018 18:40 via sooeveningnews.com
  Dick Cheney biopic Vice tops Golden Globes nominations  Sault Ste. Marie Evening News"Vice" topped all contenders Thursday, in nominations announced at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, including best picture, comedy and best ...
  
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• Teresa Martone Named Executive Director SAHF

  06-12-2018 18:37
  The Board of Directors of the Sault Area Hospital Foundation (SAHF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Teresa Martone as Executive Director. Teresa joins the Foundation having most recently served as the Executive Director of the Group Health Centre Trust Fund and Director of Communications. She also brings nearly twenty years of experience in […]
  
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• PUC to Go Cashless Starting in the New Year

  06-12-2018 18:36
  As of Jan. 1, 2019, PUC will no longer be accepting your cold, hard, cash. PUC Customer Engagement and Corporate Communications Manager Giordan Zin told SaultOnline that this decision was made due to the declining number of people who visit the  office to pay their bills, less so who pay in cash. Currently, only approximately […]
  
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• 2019 marks beginning of CPP enhancements to be rolled out over seven years

  06-12-2018 18:23
  TORONTO — The biggest change to the country’s pension plans in more than a decade will take place in the new year, but the effects will be felt differently depending on which generation you belong to. Beginning in early 2019, the Canada Pension Plan and Quebec Pension Plan will phase in enhanced benefits over the next seven […]
  
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• ‘Yeah, I’m alive:’ Boy survived training school beating 55 years ago

  06-12-2018 18:09
  TORONTO — The mystery that has haunted Rick Brown since he watched the brutal beating of a young friend at an Ontario training school 55 years ago was finally solved this week: James Forbes survived that night. In fact, at 68 years old, Forbes is living not far from Brown and doing well — if […]
  
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• First Nations chiefs boo Scheer for not saying how he’s different from Harper

  06-12-2018 18:01
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says First Nations chiefs will have to wait until his platform is released to see how he differs from former prime minister Stephen Harper. Hundreds of chiefs in Ottawa for the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly booed him in response. During a question-and-answer session with the opposition leader, […]
  
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• Canadian businesses face retaliatory risk after Huawei arrest: analysts

  06-12-2018 17:55
  OTTAWA — Canada’s arrest of Huawei Technologies’ chief financial officer in Vancouver is fuelling concern that Canadian business people in China are at risk of being arrested in retaliation. That view is being advanced by international security analysts and former diplomats, following the arrest on Saturday of Meng Wanzhou. Canada’s Justice Department says the United States […]
  
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• Word banishment season winds down for 2019 list - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  06-12-2018 17:52 via sooeveningnews.com
  Word banishment season winds down for 2019 list  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsNow is the time to get rid of this past year's abused and misused words and phrases. Only a matter of days remain to submit a nomination for Lake Superior State ...
  
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• Man pushed, punched

  06-12-2018 17:27 via saultstar.com
  A man was pushed to the ground and punched several times during an argument with another male he knew, police say.
  The incident happened early Thursday.Darren Cavey, 34, of British Columbia, was charged with assault. 
   
  
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• Suzette Martinez Standring: Wildlife in winter: Spiritual messages - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  06-12-2018 17:14 via sooeveningnews.com
  Suzette Martinez Standring: Wildlife in winter: Spiritual messages  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsWatching wildlife is a year-round Christmas gift as they scamper, trot, glide and even slither freely nearby. Our fenced-in back yard abuts an open field where ...
  
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• Pearl Harbor Observance Day set for Friday - sooeveningnews.com

  06-12-2018 17:14 via sooeveningnews.com
  Pearl Harbor Observance Day set for Friday  sooeveningnews.comEastern Upper Peninsula residents will have a chance on Friday to honor those killed on one of America's darkest days, and the soldiers who fought in the great ...
  
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• Pearl Harbor Observance Day set for Friday - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  06-12-2018 17:14 via sooeveningnews.com
  Pearl Harbor Observance Day set for Friday  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsEastern Upper Peninsula residents will have a chance on Friday to honor those killed on one of America's darkest days, and the soldiers who fought in the great ...
  
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• In Good Faith: Wait for it - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  06-12-2018 17:14 via sooeveningnews.com
  In Good Faith: Wait for it  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsIn the not-so-distant past, great wars erupted over baby Jesus in our house. Not the actual, living, breathing baby Jesus who burst into the world on that first ...
  
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• Book Notes: The coddling of America’s college students - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  06-12-2018 17:14 via sooeveningnews.com
  Book Notes: The coddling of America’s college students  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsThe Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure” By Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
  
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• Web Portal to Connect Employers and Job-seekers with Disabilities

  06-12-2018 17:04
  The Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce (SSMCOC) is working with the Discover Ability Network to launch a new web portal, which will directly connect local employers to job-seekers with disabilities. “It’s been proven that companies employing people with disabilities reduce costs associated with turnover, training and safety,” notes SSMCOC CEO, Rory Ring. “They also […]
  
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• B.C. Man Charged with Assault

  06-12-2018 16:35
  A British Columbia man was arrested early Thursday morning and charged with assault. It is alleged that just after 2:00 a.m. 34 year old Darren Carey engaged in a verbal argument with an adult male known to him.  Carey then assaulted the victim by pushing him to the ground and punching him several times. Carey […]
  
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• Sault-shot Giant Little Ones gets big honour

  06-12-2018 16:19 via saultstar.com
  A coming-of-age drama shot in Sault Ste. Marie is part of Toronto International Film Festival’s Top 10 features of 2018.Giant Little Ones stars Maria Bello (NCIS, ER), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks) and Peter Outerbridge (Orphan Black, Cool Runnings).The film, directed by Keith Behrman (This is Wonderland, Da Vinci’s Inquest) will be screened at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto.Nathan Morlando, director of Citizen Gangster and Mean Dreams, was executive producer. Allison Black produced. S
  
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• North American stocks plunge in early trading amid China-U.S. trade talk worries

  06-12-2018 15:54
  TORONTO — North American stock markets plunged in early trading amid worries that the arrest of a senior executive at Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei could derail progress in China-U.S. trade talks. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 340.34 points at 14,842.30. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 393.88 points at […]
  
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• 'Amazing' Da Costa plays the seasons with Sinfonia Toronto

  06-12-2018 15:34 via saultstar.com
  Audiences don’t often get to hear two years worth of music in 90 minutes.Sinfonia Toronto pairs up Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at The Machine Shop as part of Algoma Conservatory Concerts. The performance follows a sold-out show at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Theatre on Saturday night.“It’s nice to have these two works played back-to-back because there is a lot that audiences can relate to,” mu
  
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• *** REMINDER Final sealed bids are accepted until tomorrow at 3pm *** facebook.com/38869240449825…

  06-12-2018 15:33 via twitter.com
  *** REMINDER Final sealed bids are accepted until tomorrow at 3pm *** facebook.com/38869240449825…
  
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• Mantha charges northern families, businesses forced to settle for less

  06-12-2018 15:15 via saultstar.com
  Algoma Manitoulin NDP MPP Michael Mantha said shortening operating hours at Service Ontario and Drive test locations across Northern Ontario are making it difficult for families and businesses to get the services they need.
  The Wawa Service Ontario location is only open four hours a day, four days a week, he said in the Ontario legislature Wednesday. “Within that short time, residents often wait an hour to get basic services.”
  Mantha said the cut hours also affect businesses and thei
  
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• Canadian trade deficit grew in October as oil prices weighed on exports

  06-12-2018 15:14
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the country’s merchandise trade deficit increased to roughly $1.2 billion in October compared with $891 million in September as a drop in energy prices weighed on exports. Economists had expected a deficit of $700 million, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon. Total exports fell 1.2 per cent in October to $49.3 […]
  
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• CALLAHAN, William Donald

  06-12-2018 15:10
  Peacefully passed away at the Sault Area Hospital on Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at the age of 85. Beloved husband of Edith for 61 years. Loving father of Carol Lynn Callahan (Rob), Lou-Anne Desroche (Conrad) and Richard Andrew Callahan (Linda). Cherished grandfather of 5. Brother of Eleanor Swanton (Bill), Bernice Crosby (Jim) and Peggy Suppa […]
  
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• Canada will feel oilpatch pain, but likely won’t be as bad as 2015: Poloz

  06-12-2018 14:54
  OTTAWA — The negative impacts of low oil prices that have struck Western Canada will reverberate across the entire national economy, the head of the Bank of Canada said Thursday. But governor Stephen Poloz estimates the latest drop in crude prices will likely have less bite across the country than the 2015 oil-price crisis, which contributed at the time to a slight, technical recession. In prepared no
  
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• Santa Came to Christmas Cheer and the Salvation Army Early this Year!

  06-12-2018 14:08
  Sault Ste. Marie does it once again and shows their generosity by buying almost every ticket for the 3rd Annual Old Time Christmas Concert on Saturday, December 1st at the Central United Church. Sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Lakeshore, DOI/Compass Digital Imaging and Central United Church, this timely event featured some very talented Sault […]
  
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• Canopy buys German vaporizer company Storz & Bickel for $220 million

  06-12-2018 13:52
  SMITHS FALLS, Ont. — Marijuana company Canopy Growth Corp. has signed a deal to buy a German firm that specializes in vaporizer design and manufacturing for about $220 million in cash. Under the deal, Canopy will pay 145 million euros for Storz & Bickel GmbH & Co. KG. Based in in Tuttlingen, Germany, the company […]
  
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• Ontario environment minister to meet with federal counterpart in Toronto

  06-12-2018 11:01
  TORONTO — The federal environment minister is set to meet with her Ontario counterpart in Toronto today where they are expected to discuss the province’s new plan to address climate change. The Progressive Conservative government’s plan, unveiled last week, replaces the cap-and-trade system brought in by the previous Liberal regime and does not put a price on carbon. […]
  
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• Supreme Court to say if it will hear case of cop who shot teen on streetcar

  06-12-2018 09:59
  OTTAWA — A Toronto police officer who shot a teenager on an empty streetcar five years ago finds out today if Canada’s top court will hear his case. A jury acquitted Const. James Forcillo of the second-degree murder of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim in 2016. However, jurors convicted him of attempted murder related to a second […]
  
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• Sault secures $20M BUILD grant - News - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  06-12-2018 09:00 via sooeveningnews.com
  Sault secures $20M BUILD grant - News  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsChristmas arrived early for the City of Sault Ste. Marie delivering more than $20 million in the form of a Better Utilizing Investment to Leverage Development ...
  
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• Sault CVB hosts annual meeting - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  06-12-2018 09:00 via sooeveningnews.com
  Sault CVB hosts annual meeting  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsComplete with a new meet and greet setup, the Sault Ste. Marie Convention & Visitors Bureau hosted their annual meeting and community luncheon at the ...
  
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• Mackinac County adds form to fund application process - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  06-12-2018 09:00 via sooeveningnews.com
  Mackinac County adds form to fund application process  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsTownship officials in Mackinac County will now be required to fill out a standardized form when seeking project funding from the County Board of Commissioners ...
  
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