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• Luongo out 2-4 weeks for Panthers

  10-10-2018 00:31
  Roberto Luongo will be out 2-4 weeks for the Florida Panthers with a Grade 1 MCL strain in his right knee, coach Bob Boughner said Monday. The 39-year-old goalie was placed on injured reserve Sunday. Luongo left the Panthers’ season-opening 2-1 shootout loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday at 12:21 of the second […]
  
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• Capturing a Kidney Walk moment: PHOTO GALLERY

  27-09-2026 17:10 via saultstar.com
  
  Tannis McMillan, community and fund development officer for the Kidney Foundation Sault Ste. Marie chapter, snaps a photograph of Kidney Walk participants prior to the walk taking off Sunday morning from Roberta Bondar Pavilion.Revenue helps the Kidney Foundation advance research and deliver peer support while also providing information through educational materials, webinars and websites, such as the Kidney Community Kitchen. Over the past three years, Kidney Walk participants across Ontario h
  
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• Brush with history at Sault's fall rendezvous

  27-09-2026 15:23 via saultstar.com
  
  Lydia Boileau, and Sylvie Boileau paint with voyageur interpreter Cheryl Widdifield at the fall rendezvous at Ermatinger-Clergue National Historic Site on Saturday. BRIAN KELLY
  
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• Rosary rally to be held at Sault church

  27-09-2026 15:08 via saultstar.com
  
  A Sault Ste. Marie church will participate in a national rosary rally.Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church participates in the Oct. 10 event.Start time is at noon in the rectory driveway at MacDonald Ave., a release said. Canada Needs Our Lady, a special campaign of the Canadian Society for the Defence of Christian Civilization, hopes to organize more than 1,500 rallies on that day.Our Lady of Good Counsel has held the event since at least 2017.
  
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• Abortion opposed at upcoming Sault demonstration

  27-09-2026 15:03 via saultstar.com
  
  A public demonstration against abortion will be held Oct. 4.Life Chain participants will gather for the hour-long event at 2 p.m. at Great Northern Road and Willoughby Street, a release said. The event website is lifechain.ca Life Chain was first held in Sault Ste. Marie in 1991.
  
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• Wings, pizza fundraiser helps Sault church group

  27-09-2026 14:59 via saultstar.com
  
  An all-you-can-eat pizza, wings, fries and pastries fundraiser is planned for Thursday at Icebreakers.The event runs from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the John Rhodes Community Centre venue, a release said.Cost is $30. The event benefits St. Luke’s Cathedral’s GATEHRING Anglican Church Women. Call 705-254-7144 or email [email protected].
  
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• Theatre groups team up for Bayview base

  27-09-2026 06:34 via saultstar.com
  
  Sault Theatre Workshop was out of money.Algoma Repertory Theatre needed a permanent rehearsal space. ‘The two community theatre groups teamed up for a partnership to meet both their needs. Algoma Repertory Theatre paid Sault Ste. Marie’s oldest community theatre group $60,000 for a 50 per cent ownership of its Studio Theatre on Pittsburg Avenue. The deal became effective May 15 after several months of talks and legal consultations. “ We were a theatre company with money and no
  
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• Canned laughter at Big Blue Food Drive

  26-09-2026 20:11 via saultstar.com
  
  St. Vincent Place thrift store manager Elizabeth Failes and cashier Michelle DeVoni help at Big Blue Food Drive on Saturday. About 160 volunteers collected and sorted donations to help St. Vincent’s food bank, said assistant executive director Sara McLeary. BRIAN KELLY
  
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• School board suspends international trips in 2001: IN OTHER YEARS

  26-09-2026 06:01 via saultstar.com
  
  Sept. 26, 2001The last remaining portion of Sault Collegiate Institute still standing was knocked down. Alert Care plans to build a retirement home for seniors at the Fauquier Avenue site. Algoma District School Board is suspending international school trips following recent terrorist attacks in the U.S. Sept. 26, 1951The king’s doctors reported today the monarch spent a less-restful night, but still keeps on gaining strength after his recent dangerous lung operation. Northern Miner descr
  
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• Police building to be assessed

  25-09-2026 19:47 via saultstar.com
  
  A needs assessment will be done to help lay the groundwork for a new Sault Ste. Marie Police Service building.The current main headquarters, at 580 Second Line E., opened in 1969. An addition followed in 1991. The study is expected to identify what work is needed and the site’s life expectancy, Chief Brent Duguay told Sault Ste. Marie Police Service Board during a meeting on Thursday.Chair Nuala Kenny identified “some real concerns” with the building including the preservation
  
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• Victim of Terry Fox Place assault dies

  25-09-2026 16:43 via saultstar.com
  
  The victim of an assault at an east-end apartment building on Monday has died of their injuries. Sault Ste. Marie Police Service went to the 0 to 100 block of Terry Fox Place at about 8:30 a.m. A person who cried for help was found with life-threatening injuries. Assistant Crown attorney Caden Munro, speaking Friday in bail court, said the victim has since died. Publication bans prevent The Sault Star from publishing any information that would identify the deceased or any evidence shared in cou
  
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• Port of Sault Ste. Marie project charts a course through mayoral campaign

  25-09-2026 16:14 via saultstar.com
  
  The has been pegged as the city’s priority project, one designed to diversify the economy and replace jobs lost to Algoma Steel’s transition to electric arc furnaces.City council has allocated for the estimated $250-million project and funding application rests with the federal government.Mayoral candidates don’t all agree that a port should be a priority project for Sault Ste. Marie.There are five certified mayoral candidates for the Oct. 26 election. Incumbent Matthew Shoema
  
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• Searchmont-shot film screens at Cinefest

  25-09-2026 15:28 via saultstar.com
  
  A filmmaker who shot his first feature in Sault Ste. Marie returned to the area for the production of his latest movie that will be screened today at Cinefest. Director Sergio Navarretta’s What We Have Left was shot entirely in Searchmont, including Searchmont Ski Resort, a release said. Former hippies reunite when they inherit a property where they lived communally 50 years earlier. Navarretta filmed Looking for Angelina, based on the true story of a Sault woman who murdered her abusive
  
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• 'Looked like a bomb went off' at Gore Street explosion

  24-09-2026 22:41 via saultstar.com
  
  A late-morning explosion Thursday at a downtown laundromat caused extensive damage to the building and spewed shards of glass on to the roadway. Firefighters went to Sunshine Laundromat & Internet Cafe, at 164 Gore St., at about 11:45 a.m. Eric, who declined to give his last name, was standing on the southeast corner of Albert Street East and Gore Street when he felt a shock wave from the building.“ It was a deep thump and then a big whoof,” he told The Sault Star. “You co
  
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• 'Looked like a bomb went off'

  24-09-2026 22:41 via saultstar.com
  
  A late-morning explosion Thursday at a downtown laundromat caused extensive damage to the building and spewed shards of glass on to the roadway. Firefighters went to Sunshine Laundromat & Internet Cafe, at 164 Gore St., at about 11:45 a.m. Eric, who declined to give his last name, was standing on the southeast corner of Albert Street East and Gore Street when he felt a shock wave from the building.“ It was a deep thump and then a big whoof,” he told The Sault Star. “You co
  
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• 'It’s really scary': Algoma Public Health echoes call for healthier Northern Ontario highways

  24-09-2026 20:35 via saultstar.com
  
  Algoma Public Health is joining other regional units in calling for healthier highways.The Board of Health has agreed to send a letter of endorsement for Northeastern Public Health ’s request to both Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford to support “continued and further actions” to improve the safety of Northern Ontario highways.“It so wonderful that public health is endorsing it,” board member Sally Hagman, who also serves as Blind River mayor,
  
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• Algoma Public Health joins call for healthier Northern Ontario highways

  24-09-2026 20:35 via saultstar.com
  
  Algoma Public Health is joining other regional units in calling for healthier highways.The Board of Health has agreed to send a letter of endorsement for Northeastern Public Health ’s request to both Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford to support “continued and further actions” to improve the safety of Northern Ontario highways.“It so wonderful that public health is endorsing it,” board member Sally Hagman, who also serves as Blind River mayor,
  
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• Algoma Public Health echoes call for healthier Northern Ontario highways

  24-09-2026 20:35 via saultstar.com
  
  Algoma Public Health is joining other regional units in calling for healthier highways.The Board of Health has agreed to send a letter of endorsement for Northeastern Public Health ’s request to both Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford to support “continued and further actions” to improve the safety of Northern Ontario highways.“It so wonderful that public health is endorsing it,” board member Sally Hagman, who also serves as Blind River mayor,
  
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• Explosion on Gore Street reported

  24-09-2026 18:16 via saultstar.com
  
  Press release:There is currently an increased presence of first responders on Gore Street as police, fire, and EMS respond to reports of an explosion at a building on Gore Street.Gore Street and the surrounding area may be experiencing road closures.Community members are urged to take alternate routes if they are travelling in the area. Further details will be released as they become available.
  
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• Grenade hits Sault solider in mouth in 1951: IN OTHER YEARS

  24-09-2026 06:01 via saultstar.com
  
  Sept. 24, 2001Federal funding helped three students document the history of the G. Marconi Society, Sault Ste. Marie’s largest cultural group, A buyer is still needed for Searchmont Ski Resort. Sept. 24, 1976The Versatones and The Fascination will perform at the 10th annual Harvest Festival Ball at Sault Ste. Marie Armoury. Sept. 24, 1951The king was reported in good spirits today and confident of recovery from a major lung operation. A grenade struck Pte. A. Antoine, of Sault Ste. Marie,
  
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• Enrolment tops ADSB projections

  23-09-2026 22:28 via saultstar.com
  
  Nearly 300 more students than expected are in Algoma District School Board classrooms to start the new academic year. The English public board forecast enrolment of 6,556 elementary and 3,440 secondary students in September. As of last week, ADSB actually saw 6,683 elementary and 3,598 high school students, said superintendent of education Joe Maurice. That’s an increase of 285 learners. The board expects secondary student numbers to “rise slightly” before Sept. 31, a release
  
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• Sault to fine-tune advocacy as port funding decision expected soon

  23-09-2026 21:25 via saultstar.com
  
  City staff will ensure that key terminology used in federal and provincial government’s strategic economic planning is optimized in the city’s advocacy for the Port of Sault Ste. Marie. Council passed a resolution earlier this week directing staff to ensure the port business plan includes midstream mineral and biomass handling infrastructure, a ‘green’ port design and ensure that the port is promoted as a supply chain engine to complement the federal government’s &
  
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• New nurse practitioners healthy news for orphaned patients

  23-09-2026 20:49 via saultstar.com
  
  Group Health Centre says its “commitment” to connect 6,000 Access Care Clinic patients with ongoing primary care by mid-2027 has been beefed up.Four new nurse practitioners, Grow Your Own Nurse Practitioner (GYONP) program graduates, join NP Kylie Connolly, who graduated from the program last year , on the GHC roster; another nurse expected to graduate later this year. Emilie Iacoe, Lee-Anne Jarrett, Brandon Miller and Kelsey West join GHC’s primary care staff.Launched in 2024
  
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• Man jailed 54 months for fatal stabbing in Sault in 2020: WILL UPDATE

  23-09-2026 18:24 via saultstar.com
  
  A man who fatally stabbed his twin sister’s boyfriend after being bested in an earlier physical confrontation with the beau will serve more than four years in jail. Montana Lewis was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Sam Graham, Jr., in January. He was originally charged with first-degree murder following the deadly confrontation in the driveway of his family’s Muriel Drive home in November 2020. Graham, 19, died due to massive blood loss after being stabbed in the abdome
  
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• Man jailed 54 months for fatal stabbing in Sault in 2020

  23-09-2026 18:24 via saultstar.com
  
  A man who fatally stabbed his twin sister’s boyfriend after being bested in two earlier physical confrontations with the beau will serve more than four years in jail. Montana Lewis was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Sam Graham, Jr., in January. He was originally charged with first-degree murder following the deadly confrontation in the driveway of his family’s Muriel Drive home on Nov. 12, 2020. Graham, 19, died due to massive blood loss after being stabbed in the abdo
  
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• Sault council approves cautious framework for large-scale data centres

  23-09-2026 16:04 via saultstar.com
  
  City council gave staff the thumbs up its draft framework for data centres.The report follows a council resolution passed in August to develop a draft framework for data centres and an interim bylaw. Councillors were pleased the report recommends that the city take a “conservative approach” to its planning principles. In essence, that would mean any proposed data centre over 5 MW would be required to apply for rezoning.“Data centres that are 5 MW or more are treated as ‘
  
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• PATRICIA BAKER: Sylvan Circle Tour creations truly impressed

  23-09-2026 15:53 via saultstar.com
  
  I had the opportunity to visit some of the halls where the Sylvan Circle Tour‘s 24th annual artist and artisan event was held. Participants were set up Saturday, with their one-of-a-kind creations at the eight halls on the tour. I was impressed by the calibre of the artistic creations as well as the response from the public who visited each site in droves. My idea was to interview a cross section of participants, some who are emerging artists, and those who have experience in exhibiting a
  
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• EXPLAINER: Delicate and critical procedure of landing a new Central Algoma hospital

  23-09-2026 15:36 via saultstar.com
  
  The headlines say it all: Thessalon emergency department shuttered for second time this week. How about: Matthews Memorial ED shuttered temporarily Thursday. Factors, such as aging, limited facilities and very tired, overworked doctors, are putting profound strain on rural health care in Central Algoma, east of Sault Ste. Marie. Those physicians say they have a remedy – and desperately hope the communities involved and government get firmly on board before it is too late.What’s Up,
  
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• DEEP DIVE: Landing new Central Algoma hospital a delicate, critical procedure

  23-09-2026 15:36 via saultstar.com
  
  The headlines say it all: Thessalon emergency department shuttered for second time this week. How about: Matthews Memorial ED shuttered temporarily Thursday. Factors, such as aging, limited facilities and very tired, overworked doctors, are putting profound strain on rural health care in Central Algoma, east of Sault Ste. Marie. Those physicians say they have a remedy – and desperately hope the communities involved and government get firmly on board before it is too late.What’s Up,
  
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• DEEP DIVE: Delicate and critical procedure of landing a new Central Algoma hospital

  23-09-2026 15:36 via saultstar.com
  
  The headlines say it all: Thessalon emergency department shuttered for second time this week. How about: Matthews Memorial ED shuttered temporarily Thursday. Factors, such as aging, limited facilities and very tired, overworked doctors, are putting profound strain on rural health care in Central Algoma, east of Sault Ste. Marie. Those physicians say they have a remedy – and desperately hope the communities involved and government get firmly on board before it is too late.What’s Up,
  
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