
David Helwig
Founding News Director at SooToday.com
Journalist, aspiring opera librettist
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4 days ago |
sootoday.com | David Helwig
In addition to a tourist-destination playground, an urban beach and floating swimming pools in the St. Marys River, a conceptual plan for the Sault's downtown approved by city council on Monday night also calls for big changes to the way traffic moves through our downtown.
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4 days ago |
sootoday.com | David Helwig
City council will be asked tonight to delay a planned hearing aimed at rezoning an illegal rooming house in the former East Side Church of Christ building at 99 Melville Rd. Mangesh Shende has applied to legalize an unauthorized 12-unit rooming house on the property, located about 230 metres southeast of the intersection of Trunk and Dacey roads.
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5 days ago |
sootoday.com | David Helwig
Three weeks ago, we told you how former Ward 1 Coun. Paul Christian was sharply criticizing the city's management of the Downtown Plaza. "As a former councillor, I know what went into it, the money that went into it. We're letting this slip through the cracks, and it's shameful," Christian told a meeting of the local parks and recreation advisory committee.
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6 days ago |
sootoday.com | David Helwig
Lignum Builders Ltd. of Espanola is expected to be granted a $790,673 contract next week to complete rehabilitation work on Sault Ste. Marie's delaminating Memorial Tower. Lignum wasn't low bidder on the downtown project. That was Hastings Painting Corp. from Windsor, which offered to do the work for just $529,730.
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1 week ago |
sootoday.com | David Helwig
City council is expected to award a $6-million contract on Monday to Pioneer Construction Inc. for early ravine work needed for the long-awaited Sackville Road extension. "Analysis work in this early works phase includes the installation of the culverts and the filling of the ravine above the culverts to allow for settlement," says Maggie McAuley, the city's manager of design and transportation engineering, in a report prepared for Mayor Matthew Shoemaker and ward councillors.
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