Local & Area News

Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service (SSMPS) continue to follow up any information relating to the 2011 murder of a Sault resident. Their shared goal is to bring a resolution to the victim’s family. The body of 48-year old Todd Alan Petrie was discovered in his Albert Street East apartment in the ...

The congregation welcomes everyone to Worship at First United Church.  Services are held on Sunday at 11:00 a.m.  If anyone has a question or concern please leave a message on the answering machine at the Church 705-856-2926. Thurs.  Feb.    28     World Day of Prayer – 7 p.m. St. Paul’s Anglican Church. The women of Slovenia have prepared the Service. The ...

Weather – Mainly cloudy. Wind up to 15 km/h. High minus 6. Wind chill minus 22 in the morning and minus 8 in the afternoon. UV index 2 or low. Tonight – Cloudy. Periods of snow beginning this evening. Amount 2 to 4 cm. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 15. Wind chill minus 12 in the evening and ...

Hi Brenda, Another article. Aerobic Exercise associated with improved Cognitive Performance in Younger and Older Adults This is a brief summary of a very recent article in the journal Neurology regarding the effect of exercise on the brain’s function (cognitive performance) and also weight loss. The comment below the summary is from an editor of Journal Watch which provides these ...

Just a reminder that the earlybird deadline for the Wawa Ladies Curling Bonspiel is March 5, 2019.  If your team is entered by the deadline it will be entered into the draw. The bonspiel will be held March 29 – 31, 2019.  The cost is $220.00 per team and includes a delicious meal and live entertainment. The theme this year is ...

Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath says the new health care bill opens up Ontario’s health care system to for-profit companies. “Ontario families are worried about what Doug Ford cooked up behind closed doors,” said Horwath. “This bill opens the door to unprecedented levels of private and for-profit health care — which means precious health care dollars get siphoned away from ...

Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Official Opposition Ontario NDP, issued the following statement on Pink Shirt Day:   “On Pink Shirt Day, we are inspired by the group of Nova Scotia students who stood up for a peer bullied for wearing pink by donning pink shirts themselves. Since then, Pink Shirt Day has served as a powerful reminder that we ...

What a great season of skating it has been for our little club! Our skaters have progressed in both CanSkate, AdvanceSkate and StarSkate Programs, receiving ribbons, passing evaluations and tests. Many of our Star Skaters participated in The Lake Superior Super Series 8 Competition with wonderful results. In Star 3 Freeskate Nola Mulroney received a silver, Ella Stewart received a ...

On January 3, 2019, members of the Manitoulin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Manitoulin OPP Crime Unit commenced an investigation into a historical sexual assault that occurred between 1971and 1976 in the Espanola, Ontario area.   As a result of the investigation, 78- year-old Robert SECORD, from Espanola, Ontario, has been charged with:   Gross Indecency, ...

Our current basic computer course offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 5 p.m. will come to a close soon on Thursday, February 28. Starting on Tuesday, March 5, we begin the second segment of our computer course. It will concentrate on the use of features within email and social media (Facebook, Messenger, etc.), plus use of the Windows ...

March was a special time for our Veterans in 1945 as the final push to get across the Rhine was planned. After this was done they made a U-turn to the west and entered Holland from the east. On April 2nd our family was liberated in Warnsveld and a week later Zutphen. In remembrance of our Veterans and the local ...

Today, Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, delivered the Government of Ontario’s long-term plan to fix and strengthen the public health care system by focusing directly on the needs of Ontario’s patients and families. “The people of Ontario deserve a connected health care system that puts their needs first,” said Elliott. “At the same time, ...

The Ontario Provincial Police is advising the public to plan ahead when it comes to recreational snowmobiling. In the past few weeks there has been a surge in calls for help from stranded sledders on local lakes. The substantial snowfall this winter has produced extreme slush conditions wreaking havoc on area lakes. There are a number of concerns in regards to these types ...

On February 25, 2019, at approximately 4:40 p.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a domestic dispute in the Town of Wawa, Ontario. As a result of the investigation, a 47-year-old male, from Wawa, Ontario, was charged with the following: Assault – Spousal (two counts), contrary to section 266 of the Criminal ...

On February 23, 2019, at approximately 8:46 a.m., an off-duty member of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) observed a northbound commercial motor vehicle (CMV) driving erratically on Highway 17 in Vasiloff Township. The officer followed the CMV until it parked at a business in White River Township where the driver was subsequently placed under arrest. As ...