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25th Napan Agricultural Show Held
The Napan Agricultural Show celebrated its 25th year from August 11th to the 14th with a jam packed weekend of special events that included country breakfast and suppers, Light Horse games, Draft Horse events, Oxen pull, Frisbee Dogs, petting zoo, entertainment, a truck pull and so much more. Click to enlarge...
Summer Students Preparing the Downtown Dollars
The Summer Students are hard at work preparing the 2016 DowntownS Miramichi Dollar event sale. Make sure to mark down the dates and tell your friends! Newcastle Business District Dollars will go on sale Monday, November 13th in the lobby of City Hall @ 8:30am sharp! The Historic Chatham Business...
Celebrating our Scottish Heritage
By John McKay The Miramichi Scottish Festival will run from August 19th to the 21st. This is a special year for Scottish celebrations since 2016 marks the 250th anniversary of the arrival of William Davidson’s settlers on the Miramichi. Davidson, from Fochabers in Scotland, received the Miramichi 100,000 acre land...
Blackville Fire Department Open House
The Blackville Fireman’s Club will be hosting an open house on Saturday August 20th at the fire hall, 54 Main Street. The open house starts at 1 pm with a free BBQ beginning at 2 pm. The firefighters will be performing an auto extrication demonstration at 2 pm, followed by...
Chase the King Winner Week 35
Congratulations to Jeremy Parker, this weeks winner of Chase the King. Jeremy won $42.40 with ticket number 848 and cut the 3 of Clubs. Play to WIN! Jackpot is now $2563.80! There are 17 cards left! Click here to request a number and play online. Remember to play by 4...
Acadian Day Celebrations on Waterford Green
Celebrate Acadian Day beginning at 11:30 am on Monday August 15th at Waterford Green in Chatham with PEI’s bilingual folk/ fusion trio Ten Strings and a Goat Skin and Ottawa–Gatineau’s rock/ folk/ psychedelic/ traditional band Hey, Wow. In case of rain the celebration will take place at Carrefour Beausoleil, 300...
International Youth Day
The following statement was issued today by Nathalie Chiasson, chairperson of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission, on the occasion of International Youth Day, August 12th: In December 1999, the United Nations approved a resolution decreeing that August 12 would become International Youth Day with the theme Youth is the...
Miramichi Folklore Park, Home of the Heritage Players
Miramichi Folklore Park is the newly renovated Home of the Heritage Players, a local theatre group dedicated to producing original plays about the Miramichi and its people. To date they have staged over 100 performances based on Miramichi characters and history. The gift shop has antiques,...
11 Year Old Log Roller highlights Professional Lumberjack Competition this Weekend
The Central New Brunswick Woodmen’s Museum, located in Boiestown, NB, will be hosting its Annual Professional Lumberjack Competition on Saturday, August 13th, 2016, beginning at 12 noon. TimberSport competitors will be busy sharpening their axes and filing their cross-cuts for this one day Lumberjack Competition; which portrays the “skill and...
Miramichi Fishing Report for Thursday, August 11, 2016
Warm weather and lack of rain have kept the salmon cold-water pools closed and pretty much the same for all other river stretches where salmon are involved. We need rain and lots of it for angling to get back to normal. Although fishing is extremely slow and very few fish...
UNB ranked among top universities in the world
The University of New Brunswick is among the top four per cent of degree-granting institutions of higher learning in the world, according to a newly released global ranking. This year’s tally by the Center for World University Rankings, the largest academic ranking of global universities, places UNB at 882 among...
Rock ‘n Roll Fest Donates $4000 to Miramichi Emergency Centre for Women
The Rock ‘N Roll Festival would like to thank the Miramichi Emergency Centre for Women for their help to make the festival this year the success that it was. For their help, the Festival made a donation to the centre in the amount of $4000. In the picture from left to...
Lots of Fun at 2016 Hiller Reunion
The 2016 Hiller Reunion kicked off last Thursday August 4th with an afternoon Senior's Tea at St. Andrew's School and an evening Nostalgia Hunt. The four day celebration was jammed pack with activities including a Memorial Candle Ceremony, Family Walking Parade, Washer Toss, BBQ, and plenty of live entertainment featuring the Jared Lutes...