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🌱 When fog makes freighters wait at the Soo

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan Patch AM: a 4 min read

Good morning Sault Ste. Marie! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • When fog makes freighters wait at the Soo
  • What puts Sault Ste. Marie on an affordable retirement list?
  • Lake Superior State faces a team fresh off 151 points

Also on today's calendar: 3rd Annual Hunters Widows Weekend and 8 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: A couple of showers, with a high of 45 and low of 29 degrees.
  • Thursday: Cloudy, temps: high: 40, low: 28.
  • Friday: Mainly cloudy, with a high of 39 and low of 29 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. How Great Lakes Freighters Navigate In Fog (worldatlas.com) — When visibility drops below a quarter mile on the St. Marys River, Soo Traffic closes the river or affected channels to shipping. The rule is a local safeguard in a broader navigation system that relies on radar, ship-identification signals and radio coordination long before freighter crews can see one another.
   

2. 12 Wallet-Friendly Small Towns To Retire In Michigan (worldatlas.com) — Sault Ste. Marie has the lowest median home sale price among 12 Michigan towns featured in a retirement guide: $130,000, compared with $303,500 statewide. The guide pairs that affordability with practical amenities, including senior meals at the Calery Center and local hospital care, alongside waterfront recreation and freighter watching.
   

3. Lake Erie, John Carroll men's basketball light up scoreboards (news-herald.com) — Lake Superior State hosts a high-scoring Lake Erie men’s basketball team November 13 at 7 p.m., following the Storm’s record-setting 151-41 win over Penn State-Dubois. Lake Erie is averaging 101 points through four games, with coach Kyle Conley crediting relentless defensive pressure for creating extra possessions.
   

4. Appreciating the role of maritime shipping in the Great Lakes economy (uppermichiganssource.com) — The Soo Locks' economic importance figured prominently in a shipping executive's presentation to the Economic Club of Marquette County on Monday. Interlake Maritime Services Chief Operating Officer Brendan O'Connor said closing the locks could push Michigan unemployment to roughly 22% or 23%, underscoring his argument that Great Lakes shipping supports economic and national security.
   

5. Heartbreaking audio from the night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior (mlive.com) — Radio recordings capture the Sault Ste. Marie Coast Guard coordinating a search after the Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared on November 10, 1975. Shared on the sinking’s 51st anniversary, the exchanges reveal an urgent appeal to nearby ships and an assisting captain’s concern for his own crew in the storm. All 29 Fitzgerald crew members died.
   

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    Wednesday November 11
  • Writing from the Poses →
    Northern Life Yoga Studio & Healing Arts, 529 Court Street, Sault Ste. Marie
    8:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Wednesday November 11
  • Native American Heritage-Copper Teaching
    St Ignace Public Library, 110 W Spruce St, Saint Ignace
    5:30 pm

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Sault Ste. Marie

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