Sault Ste. Marie news

• City unveils revised Clergue Park vision ahead of joint council meeting

  12-06-2026 20:36 via saultstar.com
  
  An updated Clergue Park Master Plan will be presented at a joint Sault Ste. Marie Canada-US council meeting on Monday.The updated plan is a result of continued design work with the city’s consultant, said City CAO Tom Vair.It includes the removal of the waterfront pool, changes in the design on the urban beach area and improvements to the step down to the waterfront.The specialized playground, which documents the city’s Baawating Story, has also been fine-tuned, he said.Sault Ste. M
  
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• Shirley Horn reflects on Order of Ontario: ‘It wasn't about me’

  12-06-2026 17:59 via saultstar.com
  
  Elder Shirley Horn says the Order of Ontario she received earlier this month belongs not to her alone, but to generations of residential school survivors who spent decades ensuring their stories would be heard.Horn, a residential school survivor and the first chancellor of Algoma University, was among 30 people appointed to the Order of Ontario during a June 1 ceremony at Queen’s Park in Toronto.The province’s highest civilian honour recognized Horn for having “advanced reconc
  
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• Camera was turned away before London woman was found dead, trial hears

  12-06-2026 14:14 via saultstar.com
  
  ST. THOMAS – What may have been the last image of Caitlin Jennings alive was captured by a camera perched on a hutch inside David Yates’s living room.London police special constable Kimberley Seward, a digital forensics examiner, found the image while searching Yates’s iPhone 13 Pro Max after Jennings, 22, was discovered beaten to death in Yates’s home on July 5, 2023.The snapshot from a Google Nest camera was taken before midnight on July 2, 2023, and showed someone sit
  
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• Mom of Sault manslaughter victim 'shell of a woman that I used to be'

  12-06-2026 00:33 via saultstar.com
  
  The mother of a man who was fatally stabbed in the driveway of an east-end home nearly six years ago was told she couldn’t touch her son when she saw his dead body at a trauma room at Sault Area Hospital’s emergency department.A tag was on Sam Graham, Jr.’s toe. His clothes were on a pile on the floor and an intubation tube was still in his mouth, Brigette Graham said in her victim impact statement on Thursday.Montana Lewis, the twin brother of Graham’s girlfriend, Semia
  
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• Jail Montana Lewis for 13-15 years: Crown

  12-06-2026 00:33 via saultstar.com
  
  The mother of a man who was fatally stabbed in the driveway of an east-end home nearly six years ago was told she couldn’t touch her son when she saw his dead body in a trauma room at Sault Area Hospital’s emergency department.A tag was on Sam Graham, Jr.’s toe. His clothes were on a pile on the floor and an intubation tube was still in his mouth, Brigette Graham said in her victim impact statement on Thursday.Montana Lewis, the twin brother of Graham’s girlfriend, Semia
  
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