A heartbreaking loss of staggering genius. Or something

James Hopkin was enjoying his last beer at Loplops earlier tonight with some of the titans of the Sault's journalistic firmament.

On Sunday, the local CTV reporter will leave town and move 1,385 miles east.

There, Hopkin will take on new reporting responsibilities in the Halifax bureau of APTN - the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

Faithful SooToday.com readers will recall it was Hopkin who reported on CTV about our use of the term "Saultbie" to describe Saultites.

After an intensive search at Station Mall, the hard-working Hopkin found three people who objected to our use of the term.

The scandal that followed his hard-hitting investigative piece almost succeeded in getting us run out of town on the Huron Central short line.

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