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At 9 a.m. today, when they opened the Sugar Shack at the Sault Ste. Marie Region Conservation Authority offices on Fifth Line, people were already lining up outside the door.

Dr. David Walde today addressed rumours that his early retirement this month is related to a personal struggle with the very disease he has spent a lifetime treating in others.

Shortly after 6 last evening, a half-ton truck with nobody in it somehow became airborne and landed in the St. Marys River about 50 feet (15 metres) from shore. Sault Ste.

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Two Green Bay, Wisconsin teenagers trying to enter Canada via the International Bridge are in City police custody this morning. During entry processing around 11 p.m.

With more temporary layoffs announced this week, the total number of hourly workers off the job at Essar Steel Algoma has reached 500, says the steelmaker's manager of corporate communications, Brenda Stenta.

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"Poetic justice, in my opinion," says Shawn Taylor, referring to Smoking , one of the pieces he was displaying tonight at Desi9n, Sault College's 2009 graphic design show. "The piece is denouncing cigarettes using cigarettes," Taylor told SooToday.

Hey hey hey! It's Saturday, time for another SooToday.com vintage Saturday-morning cartoon. Today, we offer our sleepless readers an episode of Bill Cosby's Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids , which ran from 1972 to 1984.