Sault Ste. Marie news

• 2019 Canadian Snowcross Season Opener (Gallery)

  12-01-2019 23:52
  The 2019 Canadian Snowcross Season Opener is taking place this weekend right here in Sault Ste. Marie! Taking place in The Yard at The Machine Shop, this event takes Canada’s best Snowmobile and Snowbike racers and has them compete over huge jumps and moguls for the Rockstar Energy National Snowcross Championships and the Kawartha Cup. […]
  
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• Bam Percussion makes noise with kids

  12-01-2019 19:39 via saultstar.com
  Students age seven and up can take part in a free percussion workshop.
  James L. McIntyre Centennial Library’s program room hosts BAM Percussion on Feb. 17 at 10 a.m.Space is limited to 30 participants, a release says.Call 705-759-5241 to register.BAM Percussion performs at Sault Community Theatre Centre on Feb. 17 at 2 p.m. as part of Over the Rainbow Children’s Entertainment Series. Tickets are on sale at Sault Community Theatre Centre at Station Mall or online at www.saultctc.ca
  
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• Edinburgh Street fire cause probed

  12-01-2019 18:12 via saultstar.com
  Smoke in the basement forced tenants out of 41 Edinburgh St., late Saturday morning. No one was hurt. Cause of the incident is under investigation. Firefighters and police responded to a minor fire at a vacant property at 35 Edinburgh St., in April 2013.
  
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• Winners Announced, Municipality Not in Ontario Wide Cannabis Lottery

  12-01-2019 17:49
  The Province announced the 25 winners for a cannabis store lottery Friday, but the province didn’t announce the municipalities the winners were representing. What we can tell you is over 8,000 applicants from the North Region were submitted but only two selected for an opportunity to get a license. The Government of Ontario, through the […]
  
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• Thunderbirds fall to Gold Miners

  12-01-2019 16:56
  After defeating the Rayside Balfour Canadians by a score of 5-3 back on Sunday night in Chelmsford and picking up their twenty sixth win of the season, the Soo Thunderbirds were looking to extend their winning streak to two games on Friday night as they made their first and only visit of the season to […]
  
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• OPP Respond To 476 Calls for Service In December

  12-01-2019 16:53
  During the month of December 2018, members from the Sault Ste. Marie Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Detachment and Highway Safety Division (HSD) responded to 476 calls for service which included the following: 26 property and vehicle related calls 10 property related crimes 1  Impaired charge 127 provincial statute charges Members from the Sault Ste. Marie […]
  
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• Millroy: The Stupidest Man Around

  12-01-2019 15:04
  One of the fellows I coffee with arrived early this week to announce that we were looking at the stupidest man around. Patrick LeClerc had looked out the window that morning and saw that there was something amiss with his car, like a lot of white were there shouldn’t have been. Upon closer inspection he […]
  
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• Pair found with stolen property

  12-01-2019 13:59 via saultstar.com
  Two men were allegedly found with property taken from a camp in Laughren Township.The times included two aluminum boats, a crate of tools and other camping and household items, Ontario Provincial Police say.Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry conservation officers and OPP did an investigation starting in mid-October.Steven Burgess, 51, of Elliot Lake, and Joseph Horton, 61, of North Bay, were charged with possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000.The pair also face multiple ch
  
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• Ambulance boasts new emergency lights

  12-01-2019 13:56 via saultstar.com
  new ambulance in Sault Ste. Marie uses red and blue flashing lights.Common colours used are red and white, but a July 2018 amendment to the Highway Traffic Act allows ambulances and fire trucks to use red and blue.“Research evidence supports the change to blue and red as more noticeable and potentially safer flash pattern than previous designs,” Sault Ste. Marie Fire Services says. “Though similar to police vehicle lighting the flash pattern and light, the wavelength has been d
  
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• The Advent of the Upsell

  12-01-2019 12:00
  Remember when your amps only went up to ten ? Where do you go from there? Well nowhere….that is… up until Spinal Tap and Nigel Tufnel decided to make 10 one louder….” these go to eleven?” The same thing happened in the recording industry and it made $illions, if not B$llions for musicians and the industry. I am talking […]
  
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• Underfunding, bad repairs, cited for why Canadian roads are breaking down

  12-01-2019 10:00
  OTTAWA — A soon-to-be completed study of pothole repairs in Canada concludes municipal and provincial governments aren’t tracking whether their repairs are working over the long term. And while they know why their roads are breaking down, most of the government agencies surveyed haven’t been spending the money needed to properly build and maintain them, […]
  
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• Fireworks show needs cash pronto

  12-01-2019 08:22 via saultstar.com
  Mark Varrin needs more bucks before there’ll be any bangs in the sky in February.
  An online appeal to raise at least $22,000 for a planned international fireworks competition in Sault Ste. Marie next month has failed to ignite with the same meagre amount – $120 – unchanged since late December at www.gofundme.com/fireworksinternational.Varrin, the event’s manager, says he’s getting a better response from his own efforts with media partners agreeing to livestream the
  
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• Frosty’s Four Points Lead Hounds Over Spitfire

  12-01-2019 03:22
  On the first night of a back to back, and their 2nd game of three in four nights, the Hounds found themselves pitted up against the Windsor Spitfire. The Spitfire came into Friday’s game in 7th place in the OHL’s Eastern Conference, enjoying a 4 point differential between them and the 9th place Barrie Colts. […]
  
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• In Other Years … Man’s Best Friend

  12-01-2019 02:55 via saultstar.com
  Bill Young, of Wawa, embraces his dog, Tonka, in April 1979 after the 90-pound husky saved him and his family of four after a fire destroyed Young’s home and business. The dog’s barking woke the family before the smoke detector activated. An unidentified firefighters looks on.
  
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• Trudeau to move fewest possible ministers to fill void left by Brison departure

  12-01-2019 00:48
  OTTAWA — Monday’s cabinet shuffle is expected to be very small, involving the fewest possible number of changes needed to fill the void left by veteran Nova Scotia MP Scott Brison’s resignation from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s front bench. It will not, however, simply be a matter of plugging one hole. Brison’s departure creates two gaps in the cabinet lineup […]
  
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• Industry minister to meet General Motors CEO on Oshawa plant closure

  12-01-2019 00:42
  OTTAWA — Canada’s industry minister will meet with General Motors CEO Mary Barra on Monday to urge her to find a solution for the auto giant’s soon-to-be-shuttered plant in Oshawa. Ont. A spokeswoman for Navdeep Bains says he will sit down with Barra at the International Auto Show in Detroit. Dani Keenan says he intends to […]
  
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• Government Shutdown: Workers, Residents and Organizations in Sault Ste. Marie See Impact - 9&10 News

  12-01-2019 00:38
  Government Shutdown: Workers, Residents and Organizations in Sault Ste. Marie See Impact  9&10 NewsIn Northern Michigan one area the federal government has a huge footprint on is Sault Ste. Marie. The Soo is home to agencies like the U.S. Customs and ...
  
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