Sault Ste. Marie

Algoma University College is teaming up with Sault Ste. Marie's Innovation Centre and the public utilities commission in proposing a $6.1-million information, communication and technology (ICT) centre at the Queen Street campus.

A fledgling phone company is delivering cellular service to Wawa. Ideal Communications is distributing the service for Superior Wireless in the community on Lake Superior's eastern shore.

The Superior East Community Development Corp. was approved for $800,000 in funding from FedNor, enough to keep the organization operating for the next three years.

A logistics consultant exploring the feasibility behind Sault Ste. Marie's transpolar air freight initiative has been asked by city councillors to expand its analysis to include a former U. S. Air Force base across the border in Michigan.

Algoma Steel's board of directors are short-listing candidates in the selection of a new president and chief executive officer for the Sault Ste. Marie steelmaker.

The City of Sault Ste. Marie is forging ahead to buy and develop two tracts of land from Algoma Steel for use as a heavy industrial park. Much of the money for the $3.

Construction on a new arena for Sault Ste. Marie's Ontario Hockey League team could commence within a year. In late July the federal and provincial governments announced funding of $7.4 million towards the arena development.

A bankrupt steel galvanizer from Cleveland is prepared to move an electro-galvanizing line to Algoma Steel. Lappin Industries Inc.

Negotiations have stalled between the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corp. and a Toronto telecommunications firm to establish an e-commerce centre in the city. Though talks continue between the EDC and Multi-Channel Communications Inc.

The provincial government is providing $300,000 annually over the next three years to expand digital health-care library services in Northern Ontario. On July 4 in Sault Ste.