Local News

SooToday.com has received another e-mail update from Lieutenant Colonel Eric Groulx, the former commanding officer of Sault Ste. Marie's 49th Field Artillery Regiment.

Today is National Aboriginal Day, celebrated by First Nations Peoples and other other Canadians across the country. Local celebrations will be held today at Bellevue Park from noon until 6 p.m.

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.

Harmeet Sooden, a professional activist who spent 118 days in Iraqi captivity with James Loney, has been deported back to New Zealand by Israeli officials, Stuff.co.nz reports.

SooToday.com caught up with Pierre Schryer backstage tonight, moments before the Canadian grand master fiddle champion launched his new CD, mélange . Schryer was part of the 10th annual Canadian Celtic Celebration at the Lock City Grand Theatre.

NEWS RELEASE LOCAL HEALTH INTEGRATION NETWORKS ************************* Landmark provincial aging at home strategy launches in North East Local Health Integration Network McGuinty government improves access to community-based health care services (J

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************* Road closure advisory The Ontario Provincial Police advise the public of the following road closure. Location: Highway 144 between Gogama and Watershed. Detachment area: South Porcupine.

SooToday.com has received the following notice from the Arthur Funeral Home & Cremation Centre concerning Franco Piscopo, a former Italian artillery officer, Canadian diplomat and translator for Prime Minister Pearson.

NEWS RELEASE MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES ************************* Electricity rebates strengthen forest industry McGuinty government strengthens Northern pulp and paper mills (June 20) - The Domtar pulp and paper mills in Espanola and Dryden are b

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************* Provincial weapons enforcement unit - Project Blackhawk Results in 38 arrests, raids across Ontario, seizures of illegal guns and shuts down Ontario’s largest drug lab TORONTO - (June 20) - A two-year invest