Month: April 2017
MIRAMICHI – The 2017 angling season for spring salmon and striped bass is underway for the Miramichi system. However, the weather has not been the most conducive to heading out. We have been plagued by very cold temperatures and bouts of wet snow which not only have made angling uncomfortable, but has also kept the…
Read MoreHis worship, Mayor Adam Lordon, along with the Rock’n’Roll Festival Committee Vice-Chair, Nelson Stewart, announced yesterday that the Rock’n’Roll Festival 2017 is officially a go … “The Very Best” Festival in Atlantic Canada will take place in the City of Miramichi beginning on Thursday, June 29th and ending on Sunday, July 2nd, 2017. “We are very…
Read MoreThe Coalition for Better Atlantic Salmon Management in New Brunswick (CBSM) was formed at a meeting of seven individuals on March 14th, 2017 in Blackville. This meeting was the culmination of a series of developments over the past year that led participants to advance the idea of a coalition as a means to push DFO…
Read MoreFifty years ago this June, the Harkins Academy High School graduates, Class of 1967, were on stage at the Sinclair Rink receiving their graduation diplomas and anxiously awaiting their graduation prom and after prom parties. Because both Canada and Harkins turned 100 years old that year, these students were named the Centennial Graduates. To celebrate…
Read MoreThe Rotary Club of Newcastle is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016-2017 Scott Knowles Memorial Hockey Pool. The pool paid back to 10th place. Find out who won.
Read MoreWelcome to another year of Doug’s Fishing Report. A new angling season is upon us Saturday, and it looks like we might be able to head out, at least in some sections of the Miramichi system. With it being the Easter weekend, there could be a few Bunny “Sightings”. Maybe a streamer with “Rabbit Hair”…
Read MorePUBLIC NOTICE Clean-up Planning Advisory The City of Miramichi would like to advise residents that planning has begun in preparation for the final Ice Storm municipal clean-up of large branches and brush.
Read MoreThe 2017 WordSpring Festival is happening May 26th, 27th and 28th, 2017 at the Hilton Saint John and Saint John Free Public Library. It is the annual literacy festival for the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB). Last year the event happened in Miramichi.
Read MoreDuring the summer of 2016, Jennifer Hartley and her family visited the Miramichi region, she enjoyed herself so much that she wrote what has been described as a “love letter to Miramichi” for Ottawa Life Magazine.
Read MoreIn 1864 Peter Mitchell, a lawyer, businessman, and politician from Newcastle, took his place among the group of individuals who came to be known as the Fathers of Confederation. After 1867, he would be heavily involved in the early governance of Canada, as the first Minister of Fisheries and later as an independent member of…
Read MoreThe Schizophrenia Society of NB (SSNB) – Miramichi Chapter’s 5th Annual Silent Auction will be posted online on their Facebook profile starting May 15th. The auction will end on June 1st at 9 am. To participate visit SSNB-Miramichi’s Facebook page. For more information about the programs available through SSNB-Miramichi visit the provincial website and find the…
Read MoreTHE 2017 NOTABLE ACTS PLAYWRITING CONTEST IS OFF AND RUNNING! The NotaBle Acts Theatre Company is once again searching for great new plays by New Brunswick playwrights, to be staged at our sixteenth annual Summer Theatre Festival in Fredericton, set to run July 26th to August 5th.
Read MoreOn Friday, March 31, 2017, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced new regulations for the 2017 Striped Bass Recreational Fishery in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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