Sault Ste. Marie news

• Canada to end remote border crossing program

  23-12-2025 15:13 via saultstar.com
  By Kenn Oliver Canada will scrap a border entry program next year that made it easy for thousands of people annually, predominantly Americans, to travel into remote areas of Ontario and Manitoba without having to report to a customs checkpoint. Starting next September, those people will have to trek to one of those border stations or use one of the yet-to-be-established designated telephone reporting sites when entering Canada. Through the Remote Area Border Program (RABC), set to end next Septe
  
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• Wright sticks with Man in Black

  24-12-2025 20:07 via saultstar.com
  Jeffrey Wright didn’t Cry, Cry, Cry when he wrapped up his stage stint as Johnny Cash. He was grateful for the chance to appear as the Man in Black in West End Theatre Project’s production of Million Dollar Quartet in 2023. There was a shared consensus among the musicians he played with to keep working together.“We all thought how do we keep this going,” Wright told The Sault Star.The Echo Bay resident got to work writing Hurt, a tribute to Cash’s life centred on th
  
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• Woman throws needles at man in Sault's downtown

  24-12-2025 17:48 via saultstar.com
  A woman got angry and threw hypodermic needles at a man who tried to intervene when she was harassing another woman at a downtown bus shelter in spring 2024, court heard Wednesday.The man was not hurt in the May 14 incident that happened on Queen Street East near East Street, said assistant Crown attorney Blair Hagan. He did not respond to the Crown for a victim impact statement.Marissa Sayers pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon and failing to attend court three times between October 2024 an
  
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• Thessalon ED shuttered Boxing Day, into weekend

  24-12-2025 17:44 via saultstar.com
  Lack of physician service will limit some Algoma District emergency department service Boxing Day and into the weekend.
    North Shore Health Network (NSHN) reported Wednesday its Thessalon site will be shuttered between 8 a.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Sunday.
    This site, east of Sault Ste. Marie, has been hit especially hard lately, having been shut down 
  Monday, 8 a.m., to Tuesday, 8 a.m. A feared closure was averted last week, but the servi
  
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• 2 Sault stores robbed same morning

  24-12-2025 16:48 via saultstar.com
  Two businesses were allegedly robbed back-to-back by the same man.Cash and merchandise were taken from a store in the 600 block of Wellington Street west at about 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 16, police say. A male is accused of threatening an employee with a knife he said he had in his pocket.The same male allegedly said he had a gun and took money from a store in the 200 block of Dacey Road at about 7 a.m. the same day.A suspect was found Tuesday in the 0 to 100 block of James Street.Dallas Solomon, 30,
  
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• Stolen credit card used for purchases

  24-12-2025 16:17 via saultstar.com
  A man used a stolen credit card to make several purchases and gave the card to somebody else to also buy something, police say.The card was taken from a vehicle on Nov. 30.A suspect was found Tuesday on Gore Street.Robert Gugelyk, 33, was charged with possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000, unauthorized use of credit card, traffic in credit card and failure to comply with undertaking. He was held in custody pending a bail hearing.
  
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• Pre-trial continues for Sault MPP

  24-12-2025 15:56 via saultstar.com
  Domestic violence charges faced by Sault Ste. Marie MPP Chris Scott were adjourned for two weeks on Wednesday. An articling student representing Toronto-based Lacy Naster LLP asked for Scott’s matter to return to court Jan. 7 to allow for a continued pre-trial with the Crown. Assistant Crown attorney Blair Hagan did not oppose the request.The Sault’s provincial representative is charged with assault and assault causing bodily harm. He’s accused of using a high chair to assault
  
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• Uride offers free rides on Christmas Day

  24-12-2025 07:49 via saultthisweek.com
  Canadian rideshare company Uride founded in Thunder Bay is offering free rides up to $25 on Christmas Day to help ensure people don’t miss out on spending the holidays with their families. Uride says anyone who is struggling to afford a ride, or does not have access to transportation to get to Christmas dinner, can reach out and receive free rides to and from their destination.The offer is available through Uride’s Good Deed program, where a portion of rides each month go towards hel
  
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• Coldest Night fundraiser boosts its goal

  24-12-2025 07:34 via saultthisweek.com
  Coldest Night of the Year, St. Vincent Place’s largest annual fundraiser, has officially launched and the organization hopes it will be its most successful event yet. Although the Coldest Night walk won’t take place until Feb. 28, participants are able to sign up and get fundraising now to help St. Vincent Place reach its goal of raising $125,000. “Our walkers have raised over $100,000 each year for the last five years, so we thought we should up our goal to $125,000 this year,
  
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• Paramedics awarded $30K to strengthen mental health supports

  24-12-2025 07:31 via saultthisweek.com
  Sault Ste. Marie Paramedic Service has been awarded $30,000 in provincial funding through Ontario’s Mental Health Supports for Public Safety Personnel Grant Program. The funds will support specialized mental health training and wellness programming aimed at strengthening psychological health, trauma-informed practice, and peer support capacity for frontline paramedics, says a media release from District of Sault Ste. Marie Social Services Administration Board. Launched by the Ministry of t
  
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• Incubator Kitchen at Harvest Algoma to ease entrepreneurship

  24-12-2025 07:26 via saultthisweek.com
  Rural Agri-Innovation Network, a division of the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre, unveiled its new RAIN Incubator Kitchen at a launch and networking event hosted at Harvest Algoma. The event early last week brought together local entrepreneurs, agency partners, funders, and food-sector leaders to celebrate the opening of a fully equipped, healthinspected commercial kitchen designed to accelerate food entrepreneurship in the region, says a media release from RAIN. The Incubator Kitchen provide
  
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• If Ukraine falls, Putin might not stop there

  24-12-2025 07:20 via saultthisweek.com
  I sometimes wonder these days if there is much thought given by the general public to the war between Ukraine and Russia. It has been going on for so long with so much loss of life that I wonder if anyone outside the combatants themselves really gives a damn any more. I read in the news the peace proposals U.S. President Donald Trump puts forward on a regular basis, meeting directly with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Alaska a while back and recently sending a delegation, which included his
  
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• Recycling landfill reserve funds no way to balance budget

  24-12-2025 07:17 via saultthisweek.com
  In an effort to balance Sault Ste. Marie’s operations budget, city council decided to reduce the landfill plan allocation by $1,825,000. This was by far the largest allocation reduction, with winter control, public works fleet, capital inflation, and streetlight budgets also seeing allocation reductions. The previous council chose to “bank” money to ensure the funds to deal with a foreseeable, massive city landfill plan cost to city taxpayers. The problem, quite simply, is that
  
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• Menorah lit in the Sault, in the shadow of tragedy

  24-12-2025 06:49 via saultthisweek.com
  Not letting Hanukkah tragedies elsewhere in the world stop them, the local Jewish community came together at City Hall the evening of Dec. 14 for the third annual public menorah lighting ceremony, marking the start of the holiday. Hanukkah is the eight-day-long Jewish “festival of lights.” It celebrates the Maccabees’ reclamation of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem from the Greeks in the second century BCE. After driving away the Greeks, the Maccabees found only a one-day supply of
  
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• City Service and Facility Changes During the Holiday Season

  24-12-2025 06:14 via saultthisweek.com
  The City of Sault Ste. Marie advises residents of the following service and facility changes during the holiday season. Administrative Offices: City administrative offices will be closed beginning Dec. 24 at noon, and all day on Dec. 25, 26, and Jan. 1. This includes: Cemetery office GFL Memorial Gardens administrative office Ronald A. Irwin Civic Centre Sault Transit Office Fire Services Administration Public Works and Engineering Services. For 24-hour emergency service requests, call Public Wo
  
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• New Year sees expanded recycling in Sault

  24-12-2025 05:41 via saultthisweek.com
  Effective Jan. 1, Ontario’s Extended Producer Responsibility recycling model takes effect, creating a unified system across the province. While recyclers in some cities will see little to no change, the list of recyclable products in the Sault will expand significantly. Previously, Sault residents were limited to placing aluminum cans, glass bottles and jars, and No. 1 and No. 2 plastic bottles (no other shapes even with that number) in their blue bins. Under the new program, in addition t
  
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• Kids more severely impacted by H3N2 flu strain this season: Sault Area Hospital

  23-12-2025 22:38 via saultstar.com
  Sault Area Hospital urges families to take preventive action – including influenza vaccination – as the current flu season is placing increased pressure on the health-care system, particularly due to the impact on infants and children.
    “Our teams have cared for several children with critical illness related to influenza this season,” said Dr. Jonathan DellaVedova, SAH director of Women and Children’s Health and Chief of Pediatric and Neonatal S
  
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• Sault and area generosity knows no bounds

  23-12-2025 22:24 via saultstar.com
  The Sault Star again thanks those who continue to support the ongoing 2025 Sault Star Santa Fund, whose proceeds assist Christmas Cheer. Donor lists will be posted regularly over the coming days and weeks online at www.saultstar.com and appear in The Sault Star printed product. The campaign wraps up Dec. 31. Your generosity is appreciated more than words can say! And a special thanks to The Shoe Fits!, whose owners and staff help out tr
  
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• ‘Did it again’: Sault Star Santa Fund surpasses campaign goal

  23-12-2025 22:07 via saultstar.com
  The goal was high. The odds this year perhaps not great given the economic turmoil and uncertainly currently dogging Sault Ste. Marie and area.
    But thanks to the generosity and long volunteer hours of many, the 2025 Sault Star Santa Fund has met – and surpassed – its $110,000 goal.
    “Sault Ste. Marie and area did it again. They came through,” said a delighted 
  Brunella Gagliardi, long-time Sault Star Santa Fund co-ordinator.
    As
  
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• New owners 'love' Stokely Creek Lodge

  23-12-2025 21:20 via saultstar.com
  No need for an orientation tour for the new majority owners of Stokely Creek Lodge.Andy Levin and Mary Freeman have visited the Goulais River-based business for years. Sojourns from their Detroit-area home to Northern Ontario with their four children are “the highlight of our winter,” said Levin. A week-long visit is currently underway.Lein likens ownership of Stokely to “a sacred trust as much as a business. “We love Stokely,” he said. “We want to preserve an
  
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• Sault College, Algoma U study steelworker supports

  23-12-2025 17:51 via saultstar.com
  Algoma University and Sault College are in talks about how the post-secondary institutions can help Algoma Steel workers who will lose their jobs in March.The steelmaker announced 1,000 job cuts earlier this month.“We’re working on some initial ideas,” college interim president Sherri Smith told The Sault Star following a board of governors meeting on Dec. 11.The schools will work with City of Sault Ste. Marie and Canadian Skills Training and Employment Centre. It’s &ldqu
  
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• 'Right move' for Cougars to move to Division 1

  23-12-2025 16:57 via saultstar.com
  A move to a new division for Sault College’s women’s hockey team is getting a hearty stick tap from interim president Sherri Smith. “I think it was the right move,” she told the college’s board of governors during a meeting on Dec. 11.The Cougars will move from ACHA women’s Division 2 to Division 1 for the 2026-27 season.“They couldn’t ignore us after three years of winning,” said Smith.The Cougars have won three consecutive championships and
  
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• Man in trouble for going to downtown Sault Tim Hortons

  23-12-2025 16:25 via saultstar.com
  Police walking the beat found a man who wasn’t supposed to be at a downtown Tim Horton’s.Carl Landry was spotted at the Bay Street business on May 16, assistant Crown attorney Adrianna Mucciarelli said Tuesday. He pleaded guilty to breaching his probation order.Ontario Court Justice John Condon was asked by defence counsel Eric McCooeye for a pre-sentence report for Landry. He now lives in White River.Landry returns to court March 4 at 10 a.m. to be sentenced.
  
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• Man brews up trouble for going to Sault Tim Hortons

  23-12-2025 16:25 via saultstar.com
  Police walking the beat found a man who wasn’t supposed to be at a downtown Tim Horton’s.Carl Landry was spotted at the Bay Street business on May 16, assistant Crown attorney Adrianna Mucciarelli said Tuesday. He pleaded guilty to breaching his probation order.Ontario Court Justice John Condon was asked by defence counsel Eric McCooeye for a pre-sentence report for Landry. He now lives in White River.Landry returns to court March 4 at 10 a.m. to be sentenced.
  
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• Wanted man with Elliot Lake ties nabbed

  23-12-2025 14:58 via saultstar.com
  A wanted federal offender known to frequent Elliot Lake was found in Timmins. Eric Richard Joseph Cardinal was sought since Oct. 9, a release says. He was serving a 39-month sentence seven offences including armed robbery, assault causing bodily harm and criminal harassment.
  
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• Turkey boxes shared with Sault families

  23-12-2025 14:50 via saultstar.com
  Forty-five families will receive turkey boxes prepared by a Sault Ste. Marie eatery and its customers and partners. Feeding Your Sole Cafe’s Giving Tree program encouraged donations from diners, a release says. Children’s Aid Society of Algoma will share the boxes with “families who will benefit most from these generous donations.”PUC, S&T Group, Sweet Greetings, Repair Inc., Trimount Construction, CAVACTIS Public Relations, Pet Smart, Henderson Metal, Wholesale Club,
  
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• Driver found impaired with no insurance in Blind River: OPP

  23-12-2025 14:32 via saultstar.com
  A driver who allegedly had too much to drink didn’t have a licence or insurance on his vehicle. A pickup truck was found in the ditch on Woodward Avenue on Dec. 20, Ontario Provincial Police say. Raymond Ritchie, 39, of Blind River, was charged with operation while impaired by alcohol, having a blood/alcohol level of more than 80 milligrams, operate a vehicle without insurance, drive motor vehicle, no licence and fail to carry permit in vehicle.His court date is Jan. 20 in Elliot Lake.
  
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• Sault College hosts job fair

  23-12-2025 14:23 via saultstar.com
  About 100 employers are expected at a career fair hosted by Sault College. The event runs Feb. 4 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Northern Avenue campus, a release says. “It supports students preparing to enter the workforce and community members looking for new or better opportunities,” said Maggie Catterick, director of employment services.Interested employers can email [email protected]
  
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• Steelers recognize Mei, Jordin, Milosevich in 1975

  23-12-2025 06:01 via saultstar.com
  Dec. 23, 2000 Aidan McLeod and Alicia Mlynarczyk, students at St. Bernadette, made sure Santa Claus ate well during a breakfast visit with the junior and senior kindergarten class.Dec. 23, 1975 Christmas Cheer helped about 750 families with hampers including turkeys or chickens and toys for youngsters. Helping fill the boxes have been donations to The Sault Star’s Christmas fund which today stand at $11,685.40. “Please thank the city for me,” said Christmas Cheer convener Joyce
  
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• Weed Man donates 1,400 pounds of food to Sault Ste. Marie, northern food banks

  22-12-2025 19:25 via saultstar.com
  A regional food drive by Weed Man has delivered support to food banks across Northern Ontario, including St. Vincent Place in Sault Ste. Marie. The lawn care franchise announced this week that its annual campaign collected 1,402 pounds of food, with donations distributed to St. Vincent Place in the Sault, along with food banks in Sudbury and North Bay. The total amount collected is equivalent to approximately 1,168 meals for families across the north, according to a release. Weed Man said the ca
  
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