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• Man gets house arrest for domestic assault

  15-09-2026 21:51 via saultstar.com
  
  Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the Crown attorney and accused. A man will serve house arrest for assaulting his partner and damaging her property.A woman was pushed against the wall of an east-end residence when she argued with Kevin Parkin about his drug use on Oct. 24, 2025, court heard last Friday. A month later Parkin threw a water bottle at her television, cracking the screen, and damaged two chairs. Parkin, who pleaded guilty to five charges i
  
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• Sault maps wanted by museum

  15-09-2026 21:32 via saultstar.com
  
  Sault Ste. Marie residents can help efforts to bolster a database of maps documenting the city that stretches back hundreds of years. Sault Ste. Marie Museum’s Repository for Cartography and Planning has collected nearly 1,000 maps featuring the community dating back to the 1600s over the last two summers.Mitchell Harris, an Algoma University graduate and doctoral student at York University, is leading the effort. “ There’s maps out there,” said Harris. “We want th
  
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• GFL seeks extension for previously approved Yates Road tank farm, sludge pit

  15-09-2026 19:38 via saultstar.com
  
  Ward 5 city councillors will be hosting a community information session to learn more about GFL’s plans to extend its approval to build a tank farm and sludge pit on Yates Road.GFL Environmental has owned the five-acre property at 150 Yates Avenue for years, and a previously approved application to the Environmental Assessment registry to build the pit and tank farm is set to expire.An application for an extension of that plan has been submitted to allow GFL to temporarily store hazardous
  
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• Sault Ste. Marie resident blows fuse over frequent power outages

  15-09-2026 18:17 via saultstar.com
  
  A Sault Ste. Marie man is shocked, saddened and charged up about what he brands are far too many power outages plaguing his central residence. He and his family have lived on Laurentian Drive for three years and, during that time, have endured frequent power outages, the lion’s share not lasting long but nonetheless annoying. “The power goes out for like literally a second, but enough that everything shuts off, which I do know is very hard on your appliances and everything, “s
  
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• Sault resident blows fuse over frequent power outages

  15-09-2026 18:17 via saultstar.com
  
  A Sault Ste. Marie man is shocked and charged up about what he brands are far too many power outages plaguing his central residence. He and his family have lived on Laurentian Drive for three years and, during that time, have endured frequent power outages, the lion’s share not lasting long but nonetheless annoying. “The power goes out for like literally a second, but enough that everything shuts off, which I do know is very hard on your appliances and everything, “said the ma
  
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• Man gets house arrest for intimate partner violence at Sault home

  15-09-2026 17:04 via saultstar.com
  
  A man will serve house arrest for assaulting his partner and damaging her property.A woman was pushed against the wall of an east-end residence when she argued with Connor Bock about his drug use on Oct. 24, 2025, court heard last Friday. A month later Bock threw a water bottle at her television, cracking the screen, and damaged two chairs. Bock, who pleaded guilty to five charges including mischief under $5,000 and two counts each assault and fail to comply with an undertaking, returned to the
  
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• Board nixes low bid for school's plumbing work

  15-09-2026 16:20 via saultstar.com
  
  A low bid from an unknown company from southern Ontario to do plumbing work at a school east of Sault Ste. Marie was turned down by Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board. Toronto-based K4K General Contractors offered to replace original water piping at St. Mary Catholic Elementary School in Massey for $361,150. The board earmarked $450,000 for the work at the 71-year-old school. But K4K General Contractors hasn’t done any previous work for HSCDSB, said manager of plant services Da
  
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• Man accused of repeated store thefts: POLICE BRIEFS

  15-09-2026 15:36 via saultstar.com
  
  Business entered Items were taken from a business in the 600 block of Queen Street East on Sept. 1.Damage was also done to enter the store. A suspect was found Sept. 11, police say.Charles Walton, 48, was charged with break, enter a place, commit indictable offence, fail to comply with probation order, mischief under $5,000 and theft under $5,000. He was held in custody pending a bail hearing. Guard struck A woman allegedly struck a security guard who was escorting her from a business in the 20
  
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• Sayers re-elected to lead Garden River in 2001: IN OTHER YEARS

  15-09-2026 06:01 via saultstar.com
  
  Sept. 15, 2001Stepped-up security searches are backing up traffic on the International Bridge. Delays as long as two hours were reported at Canada Customs as lines of vehicles stretched across the span that joins the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie. Lyle Sayers will serve a third consecutive term as chief of Garden River First Nation. Sept. 15, 1976A Criminal Code amendment enabling police to demand curbside breath tests from drivers they suspect have been drinking went into effect today in Ont
  
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