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The planned demolition of the old Royal Hotel, disclosed on Friday by SooToday.com, is encountering some grassroots opposition.

As of 1 p.m. Sunday here's the current count in the KISS first-ever fan-routed tour competition. Second-place Oshawa is now just 42 votes away from taking over the first-place spot from Winnipeg. Winnipeg - 10,865 Oshawa - 10,824 Sault Ste.

It would be difficult to say who's having a better Mother's Day. Dwanna Anderson or her son, Master Bombardier Shane Anderson.

Thirty-one-year-old Steven Barry, of Goulais Avenue, was arrested by the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service around 3 a.m. Sunday in the industrial park area.

Thomson RC Track opened for the season yesterday at the corner of Town Line and Third Line in Sault Ste. Marie. It's on the property of Thomson's Strawberry Farm. For more information and 2009 race dates, please click here . SooToday.

Katrina Brain was one of several hundred Sault-area students who got to learn today about the goodness of gussets.

A rabbit was there. A horse was there. There were search and rescue dogs, and all manner of other varieties of dogs and cats as Reverend Betty Pretty conducted this year's Blessing of the Animals today at the Sault Ste. Marie Human Society shelter.

NEWS RELEASE ONTARIO MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG-TERM CARE ************************* 14 new confirmed cases of H1N1 flu virus in Ontario All cases are mild TORONTO (May 9) - Dr.