Sault Ste. Marie

By IAN ROSS An award-winning Sault Ste. Marie entrepreneurial program is folding up this spring. The Bi-National Regional Initiative Developing Greater Education, known as BRIDGE, will cease to exist at the end of May.

By SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW The City of Sault Ste. Marie is not holding its breath when it comes to bringing a biofuel initiative to reality, but they are holding onto the idea with hope of adding another stimulating economic injection to the North.

By SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW With a vice-like grip Lappin Industries continues to hold on to its plan to bring a niche galvanizing line to Sault Ste. Marie despite a slow process.

By SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW With history and existing resources on its side, Sault College is still hoping to establish a railway training institute.

By PAULINE CLARK “People want to get back to the land…it’s a segment of tourism that’s the fastest growing,” Pat Corbett, owner of Hills Health Ranch told an attentive audience at the Winter Cities Forum here recently.

By Gianni Ubriaco It has been seven years since the Union of Ontario Indians first began exploring the possibility of creating the first financial institution in Ontario made up entirely of Aboriginal peoples. But all of their hard work has paid off.

Four small towns along the North Shore are prepared to purchase a $1.5-million airplane to reinstate rural air service in the area.

By Ian Ross A group of former Algoma Steel employees were anxiously awaiting the results of a KPMG feasibility study in late August before forging ahead with a business plan to establish an electro-galvanizing line at Algoma Steel this fall.

By Ian Ross Domtar’s Sault Ste. Marie sawmill expects to be a machine stress-rating (MSR) producer of premium softwood lumber this fall.

The Town of Marathon is sifting through more than 40 applications to secure a new chief administrator. The town launched a national search during the summer to find a replacement for Ian McQuarrie who died after a serious illness.