Local News

OPP NEWS RELEASES ************************* Stolen bicycle BATCHEWANA FIRST NATION, ON - A bicycle was stolen from the front porch of a residence on Frontenac Street sometime within the past two days.

The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service is looking for witnesses to a transport/ motorcycle crash that happened last night at the intersection of Trunk Road and the new Highway 17.

Essar Algoma Steel Inc. has responded to an enquiry from SooToday.com about recent high levels of fine particulate matter (PM10) readings and date and time discrepancies on its air quality reporting website.

A total of 34 students from the Ontario Sault and the surrounding area have made the dean’s list at Lake Superior State University for the spring 2008 semester. Those so honoured achieved at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.

The public profile might be a little lower these days for Peter Vaudry, known to many as a Sault volunteer extraordinaire and big projects fund-raiser. But Vandry still devotes many hours of time towards the betterment of his community and region.

Sault Ste. Marie could cash in big-time in a coming carbon-based ecomony, educator and author Thomas Homer-Dixon told a near-capacity crowd yesterday in Sault College's multimedia centre. Change can be profound and sudden, Homer-Dixon said.

NEWS RELEASE CANADIAN UNION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ************************* CUPE 1880 CAS workers of Algoma ratify agreement SAULT STE. MARIE, ON, June 5 - CAS workers of Algoma, CUPE 1880, have ratified the tentative agreement reached last weekend.

Fans of Hockey Night in Canada could face a big adjustment when the 2008-09 NHL season starts next fall. It's possible that the show's long-familiar accompanying music - officially titled "The Hockey Theme" - will not be part of future broadcasts.

NEWS RELEASE CRIME STOPPERS ************************* Visualizing someone breaking into or vandalizing our homes is always a frightening thought, and is not something that we like to envision.

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