Sault Ste. Marie news

• CASSAVIA, Maureen

  21-06-2018 21:39
  Unexpectedly Maureen went to be with the angels on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Beloved wife and best friend of Stephen. Treasured and inspirational mother of Cayllan (Kalle Mattson) and Connor (Rachel Voigt). Cherished daughter of Daniel and Nora Breen. Precious sister of Pat and Dan Breen and sister-in-law of Micheal Cassavia (Stephen MacNamara). Missed by […]
  
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• Prohibited, impaired driver from Batchawana Bay gets jail

  19-06-2026 22:12 via saultstar.com
  
  A volunteer firefighter jumped out of the way when a pickup ignored the stop sign he was waving at a collision scene north of Sault Ste. Marie early last year. The driver, impaired by drugs, was prohibited from being behind the wheel, Ontario Court Justice John Condon heard Friday.Andrew Rowan, of Batchawana Bay, pleaded guilty to impaired driving and driving while prohibited. Rowan’s speech was slurred on March 16, 2025. His eyes were droopy and he said he was tired when he spoke with po
  
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• Woman keeps letting dogs run at large where white-tailed deer live, court hears

  19-06-2026 21:59 via saultstar.com
  
  A Northeastern Ontario resident has been fined $1,000 for allowing her dogs to run at large in areas inhabited by white-tailed deer, which can cause distress to the deer and decrease their survival, Ministry of Natural Resources says. Caitlyn Baker, of Evansville, Manitoulin Island, was convicted of letting her dogs run at large during both the open and closed seasons for white-tailed deer. She was fined $1,000 and received a two-year probation from having any dogs in her care and control leave
  
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• Driver flees traffic stop on Sault street

  19-06-2026 20:15 via saultstar.com
  
  A motorist nearly hit another vehicle and drove through multiple stop signs during an attempted traffic stop on Huron Street on Monday afternoon.The driver was found about an hour later, police say. He’s also accused of having two different unauthorized licence plates on his vehicle on June 10. Michael Hogan-Denis, 32, was charged with flight from peace officer, dangerous operation, two counts each operation while prohibited and use plate not authorized for vehicle and six counts driving
  
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• Rotaryfest needs food court help

  19-06-2026 20:06 via saultstar.com
  
  Businesses and community groups are sought to help at Rotaryfest’s food court.Participants can wear their own logo wear or festival volunteer shirts can be provided, a release says.Rotaryfest runs July 16-18.Hours help is needed are 7:30 p.m. to about 10:30 p.m. on July 16, 4:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. on July 17 and 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on July 18.Email [email protected] with the business name, contact name, email, phone number, number of team members and shift availability.
  
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• CBC Radio host talks health care in Sault Ste. Marie

  19-06-2026 19:56 via saultstar.com
  
  An emergency doctor and CBC Radio host speaks July 15 at The Loft.Dr. Brian Goldman is heard on White Coat, Black Art and The Dose. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets, $45 and $60, are on sale at sahfoundation.com/author. The second option includes a copy of Goldman’s new book, The Casino Shift. Event proceeds help buy medical equipment for Sault Area Hospital.
  
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• Youth trafficked in Sault Ste. Marie

  19-06-2026 17:39 via saultstar.com
  
  A Niagara Falls man allegedly abducted a youth he knew in Waterloo and trafficked them in Sault Ste. Marie.The victim was found in the 200 block of Great Northern Road on June 2. Damon Hale, 25, was charged with abduction of person under 16 years of age, assault causing bodily harm, procuring person under 18 years, traffick in persons under 18 years of age, uttering threats, fail to comply with probation order and two counts assault. He was held in custody pending a bail hearing.
  
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• Victim badly roughed up on Sault's Wellington Street West

  19-06-2026 17:15 via saultstar.com
  
  A person suffered serious injuries when assaulted by two men they knew on June 13. A residence in the 700 block of Wellington Street West was entered following an earlier argument between the victim and suspects, police say. The assailants allegedly wore balaclavas. Jamie Nedeau, 41, and Shawn Edwards, 40, were charged with assault causing bodily harm, break, enter a dwelling house, intent to commit indictable offence, disguise with intent and unlawfully in dwelling house.The two accused were h
  
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• Bear mace pointed at Sault business worker

  19-06-2026 17:07 via saultstar.com
  
  Bear mace was allegedly pointed at a worker who tried to stop a man from taking merchandise from an east-end business in the spring.The incident happened in the 100 block of Churchill Boulevard on April 21. A suspect was found Wednesday.Ronald Lecuyer, 33, was charged with robbery, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and fail to comply with probation order.His court date is Aug. 31.
  
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• Character 'started talking' when Sault actor wore wig

  19-06-2026 16:05 via saultstar.com
  
  An old wig helped a new character take root for Trish Rainone-DiLuzio that’s entertaining TikTok viewers. Jan is a diehard Sault Ste. Marie native not keen to pull up stakes in her hometown to roll over to Sudbury and to be with her beau, Dave.“ I don’t really think that Jan can be tied down,” siad Rainone-DiLuzio. “She believes in Sault Ste. Marie.”Jan “is in a pickle” loving the man she met through an internet date site, but not wanting to be ti
  
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• ‘The world doesn't stop for us’: Ken Brown Recovery Home teaches clients to take charge of their destinies

  19-06-2026 00:57 via saultstar.com
  
  Kyle Campbell tells of taking in a recent slo-pitch weekend during which post-game pints got passed around freely and eagerly.Nothing special about that; for many, beer and baseball go together like a bat and ball.What was remarkable, though, was Campbell’s response to the festivities and liquid refreshments that accompanied them.“They were around having a couple of beers and, to be honest, it’s not even something that I thought about,” Campbell says.There was a time not
  
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• ‘The world doesn't stop for us’: Ken Brown Recovery Home teaches clients to own their destinies

  19-06-2026 00:57 via saultstar.com
  
  Kyle Campbell tells of taking in a recent slo-pitch weekend during which post-game pints got passed around freely and eagerly.Nothing special about that; for many, beer and baseball go together like a bat and ball.What was remarkable, though, was Campbell’s response to the festivities and liquid refreshments that accompanied them.“They were around having a couple of beers and, to be honest, it’s not even something that I thought about,” Campbell says.There was a time not
  
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• Sault club joins amateur radio file dday

  18-06-2026 21:43 via saultstar.com
  
  Algoma Amateur Radio Club participates in the annual amateur radio field day on June 27.Members will be at the superintendent’s house at Sault Ste. Marie Canal National Historic Site from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., a release says.Club members will highlight radio equipment and make contact with other radio operators in North America and around the world.
  
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• Sault club joins amateur radio field day

  18-06-2026 21:43 via saultstar.com
  
  Algoma Amateur Radio Club participates in the annual amateur radio field day on June 27.Members will be at the superintendent’s house at Sault Ste. Marie Canal National Historic Site from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., a release says.Club members will highlight radio equipment and make contact with other radio operators in North America and around the world.
  
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• Public health elective offered to nursing students

  18-06-2026 17:04 via saultstar.com
  
  Algoma Public Health and Sault College are partnering on a nursing elective to prepare future nurses for careers in public health.The six-week elective is delivered online and includes 12 modules, a release says.There is a weekly one-hour virtual drop-in session with nursing faculty and, occasionally, APH public health nursing staff.The training is open to bachelor of science in nursing students in years two to four and RPN-to-BScN bridge program students.Twenty-two students participated in the
  
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• Transport driver charged in Spanish bus crash

  18-06-2026 16:47 via saultstar.com
  
  A Manitoba man faces charges following a collision involving a school bus and transport on Highway 17 in Spanish on Wednesday.Twenty-six children were on the bus. None were hurt, Ontario Provincial Police say.The two vehicles were both eastbound shortly after 8 a.m. The transport rear-ended the bus, police say. Rajwant Singh Brar, 27, of Winnipeg, was charged with careless driving and fail to stop for school bus, stop arm.His court date is Aug. 18 in Blind River.
  
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• Touch-a-Truck brings big rigs to Sault kids

  18-06-2026 16:16 via saultstar.com
  
  Touch-a-Truck rolls back to Station Mall on Saturday.The fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity Sault Ste. Marie & Area runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sensory-friendly hours are noon to 2 p.m., a release says.Suggested donation is $5 per person.Participants featuring vehicles include Casswell Concrete Products, Lakeway Truck Centre, Sterling Crane and DNM Group.Tickets for Habitat for Humanity’s annual 50/50 lottery will be on sale. Touch-a-Truck runs in partnership with Queen Street Cruise
  
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• Universal washroom costs Sault board nearly $200,000

  18-06-2026 15:45 via saultstar.com
  
  A new universal washroom to be built at Holy Angels Learning Centre will cost nearly $200,000. Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board trustees approved the awarding a construction contract of $196,600 to RF Contracting at a meeting on June 4. A second bid from BT Construction stood at $217,000, said manager of plant services Dave Coccimiglio in a report to trustees. The board had earmarked $150,000 for the project at the Wellington Street East school. The washroom will be gender neutral
  
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• Catholic board moves principals, VPs in Sault and area

  18-06-2026 15:41 via saultstar.com
  
  Five elementary school administrators with Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board will move to new sites in Sault Ste. Marie and east of the city for 2026-27.Shawna Bock, vice-principal at St. Paul, is being placed at St. Basil where she will hold the same position. Stephanie MacWilliam, vice-principal at St. Francis French Immersion, will be the new vice-principal at St. Paul, chief executive officer Fil Lettieri said in a report to trustees. Andrew Chi, principal at Our Lady of Fatima
  
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• Police patrol Sault golf course in 1976: IN OTHER YEARS

  18-06-2026 06:01 via saultstar.com
  
  June 18, 2001Wooden sailboats built by boys in the Kids Club, started by Odette and Burt Hillyard of Moody Street in 2000, took to the water at Bellevue Park on June 16.June 18, 1976Mrs. Elsie Ferguson and Mrs. Joyce Robertson, kindergarten teachers at Parkland School, passed their 55 little charges into Grade 1 with flying colours and a graduation party. Sault Ste. Marie Golf and Country Club began hiring off-duty city police officers to patrol its 18-hole course because of a noticeable increa
  
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• Murder accused says dream relationship became ‘an absolute nightmare’

  18-06-2026 03:31 via saultstar.com
  
  He dreamt of them living together “away from civilization” on a farm, maybe with some chickens, a big garden and some kids.David Yates, 53, described the happily-ever-after he hoped for with his girlfriend, Caitlin Jennings, 22. But while testifying Wednesday at his second-degree murder trial, he kept returning to his obsession over the relationship and his ongoing trust issues.“Caitlin was someone who stood out extraordinary,” he said at the start of his testimony befor
  
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• Sault woman gets house arrest for fraud

  17-06-2026 21:59 via saultstar.com
  
  The former head of a Sault Ste. Marie-based courier company has 10 years to pay back more than $500,000 she bilked from her employer. Lorraine Lariviere was also sentenced to house arrest for two years less a day by Ontario Court Justice John Condon on Wednesday. She pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 in July 2025. Lariviere stole nearly $560,000 from Eazy Express between 2020 and 2024. The theft of cash hobbled the business started by the late Ted Brooks in 1988. She must stay at her home for
  
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• The Sault Star spoke to Chicago’s Walter Parazaider in 2010

  17-06-2026 21:23 via saultstar.com
  
  The Sault Star’s Jeffrey Ougler had a pre-show interview with Chicago founding member Walter Parazaider prior to the band’s May 2010 Kewadin Casino concert. Parazaider told Ougler how he felt sidelined when the band shifted from rock and jazz fusion to saccharin-laced 1980s ballads. He stuck it out, though, and at 65 was still blowing his horn as loudly and proudly as ever. This story appeared in the May 21, 2010 edition of The Sault Star. WalterParazaider toyed with taking his horn
  
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• ‘Repression’ remains: Deal to end war in Iran does not impress Hajar Shavandi

  17-06-2026 19:43 via saultstar.com
  
  Iran receiving broad financial incentives as part of a pact to end the war launched by the United States and Israel is not receiving rich reviews from an Iranian-born woman studying nursing in Sault Ste. Marie. Hajar Shavandi says that according to her, and many Iranians she knows both inside Iran and throughout the diaspora, this agreement is not viewed as a “meaningful” step toward peace. “Many fear that leaving unresolved what has already caused so much suffering will only
  
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• Children escape injury in Spanish bus crash

  17-06-2026 19:14 via saultstar.com
  
  School bus hitA transport rear-ended a school bus that stopped on Highway 17 in Spanish with its lights flashing on Wednesday morning.None of the 26 students on board were hurt, Ontario Provincial Police say. The drivers of the two vehicles were also not injured. The collision happened shortly after 8 a.m. Charges are pending.
  
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• Trustees OK $209M budget for Algoma District School Board

  17-06-2026 15:36 via saultstar.com
  
  Algoma District School Board drew from its reserves to balance its 2026-27 budget.The English public board plans to spend $209,010,248 in the coming year.About $600,000 was taken from ADSB’s accumulated surplus to balance the books, said associate director of corporate services and operations Joe Santa Maria. The board still has slightly more than $20 million in its reserves. The budget, passed by trustees at a meeting on Tuesday evening, is based on student enrolment of about 10,200. San
  
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• Officer describes injuries to accused months before Caitlin Jennings's killing

  17-06-2026 03:27 via saultstar.com
  
  Caitlin Jennings and David Yates were on the ground in the front door threshold of a Kingsway Avenue home when London police officers arrived to investigate a possible assault.It was March 28, 2023, just shy of three months before Jennings would be found beaten to death inside Yates’ northwest London home. That day, officers were responding to an urgent 911 call from a man reporting he had been bitten and stabbed.Jennings came outside and tried to close the door when police arrived. One o
  
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• ‘Grateful for grants’: Prince Township community centre, flood prevention get provincial plug

  16-06-2026 17:59 via saultstar.com
  
  With a huge Northern Ontario riding that stretches from Nickel Belt in the east to the wilderness north of Manitouwadge, Algoma MPP Bill Rosenberg logs thousands of kilometres on the road in his efforts to meet constituents. Sometimes he visits as many as five communities in one day. Friday was Prince Township’s day, when Rosenberg paid a whirlwind visit to the community centre to congratulate council and staff on their success in obtaining two provincial grants whose combined value toppe
  
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• 5 Car Draw grand prize deadline approaches

  16-06-2026 07:23 via saultthisweek.com
  
  The 5-car Draw grand prize deadline is quickly approaching. Tickets for the Sault Area Hospital Foundation draw are available at 5car.ca.More than $270,000 in prizes are still to be won.Five grand prize winners will have the choice to drive away in a brand-new vehicle or take a big cash prize. The top prize for 2026 is a Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD 4WD Crew Cab valued at $101,193 or an $80,000 cash alternative.Ticket sales for the grand prize draw close on Monday, June 22, at 11:59 p.m. All gran
  
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• Master of Social Work offered at Algoma University

  16-06-2026 07:18 via saultthisweek.com
  
  Registration for Algoma University’s recently launched Master of Social Work (MSW) program is open for fall 2026.The program is offered at the Sault Ste. Marie campus, expanding access to graduate-level social work education across Northern Ontario and addressing a clear and growing regional need for qualified professionals, says a media release.Building on the established Bachelor of Social Work, the MSW is designed as a community-informed, practice-based program that reflects the region
  
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