Local & Area News

Most of us have by now taken down our Christmas trees, packed away the decorations and polished off any remaining Christmas baking left in the cookie tins. Hopefully, too, you have stored away a host of wonderful memories of time spent with family and friends. And now, it is up to all of us to fan the embers of warmth ...

Team Rank Wins G.P. TERRIS, Tom 1 6 7 LESCHISHIN, Mark 2 5 7 McCOY, Joe 2 5 7 BUCKELL, Chris 4 4 7 HALL, Dave 5 3 7 KLOCKARS, Anna-Lise 5 3 7 SPENCER, Diane 5 3 7 BOYD, Katherine 8 2 8 HOFFMANN, Jim 9 1 7 Schedule for Thursday – January 17, 2019 Ice 1 Ice 2 ...

Weather – Periods of light snow. Risk of freezing drizzle this morning. Local amount 2 cm. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light early this morning. Temperature steady near minus 4. Wind chill near minus 10. Tonight – Clearing this evening. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 18. Wind chill minus 23 in the evening and minus 17 overnight. Light ...

The Wawa Tidbits and Wawa Novice have games scheduled today at the Michipicoten Memorial Community Centre. Wawa Timbits vs Chapleau Timbits 11-12 and at 1-2 Wawa Novice vs Chapleau Novice 12-1 and  2-3. Come out and enjoy the games.

  Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines  visited Algoma Steel Inc. to announce a $60 million repayable loan from the provincial government yesterday, January 10, 2019. “Our government is committed to ensuring Algoma Steel remains competitive and sustainable in a tough market,” said Minister Rickford. “The investment announced today secures thousands of jobs and pensions and signals ...

The Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has conducted 190 hours of Festive RIDE “Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere” during this year’s annual campaign. The campaign started November 23, 2018 and ran through to January 2, 2019. During this year’s campaign, officers have issued: one impaired by alcohol charge one breath refusal charge one 7-day warn range suspension ...

During the month of December 2018, the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to approximately 523 calls for service. Some of those calls included the following: 10 violence related incidents 11 property related occurrences seven drug related cases 18 motor vehicle collisions one impaired by alcohol incident one 7-day warn range suspension 140 “Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere” ...

Weather – Mainly cloudy. 40 percent chance of light snow this afternoon. Wind up to 15 km/h. High minus 10. Wind chill minus 27 in the morning and minus 15 in the afternoon. Risk of frostbite. UV index 1 or low. Tonight – Partly cloudy. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 24. Wind chill minus 18 in the evening and ...

The Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) would like to remind vehicle owners to lock their unattended vehicles at all times, even in your own driveways. It only takes a few seconds for a theft to occur. The “would-be” thieves are looking for easy items to steal such as: loose change, purses, wallets and electronic devices. Police recommend some ...

  A total lunar eclipse is a magical event to witness and our next chance comes on the night of January 20/21 with all of North America having a ring side seat for the entire show. An eclipse is a result of the perfect lineup of the sun, earth and moon. This does not occur every month as our moon ...

Weather – Sunny. Wind up to 15 km/h. High minus 14. Wind chill minus 30 in the morning and minus 20 in the afternoon. Risk of frostbite. UV index 1 or low. Night – A few clouds. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 22. Wind chill minus 22 in the evening and minus 27 overnight. Risk of frostbite. News ...

Chief Paul Syrette and the Ojibway citizens of the Garden River First Nation join the many Indigenous leaders and friend from across Turtle island to condemn the armed military actions against the Hereditary Wet’suwet’en leadership, citizens and their allies in protecting their traditional land and sovereignty on pipeline development. “The actions of the armed police force levelled against a peaceful ...

Sault Ste. Marie will be hosting the Special Olympics Ontario 2019 Winter Games from January 31 – February 3, 2019. To welcome and assist approximately 500 athletes and coaches, the organizing committee is still in need of volunteers to help during the games. Basic volunteer opportunities include assisting in the set-up of stage/equipment, marshalling of the athletes, registration, medal counts, assisting ...

New Books – Our New Books on the 7-Day Shelf this week are “Of Blood and Bone” by Nora Roberts; “The Dream Daughter” by Diane Chamberlain; “Winter in Paradise” by Elin Hilderbrand and “The Crimes of Grindelwald”, the original screenplay by J.K. Rowling.  Also for our James Patterson fans we have new on the shelf “Juror #3” and “Target Alex ...

Jeff Yurek, Minister of Transportation announced Tuesday, January 8, 2019, that the Ontario government is helping 107 municipalities across the province expand or improve their public transit systems with Ontario’s gas tax program. “We are investing in public transit to make it a more convenient travel option and to attract more riders,” said Yurek. “More public transit will cut through gridlock ...