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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!
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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 grant in 1765. Friday night, […]
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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!
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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 Beaverbrook Road in Newcastle. This […]
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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 future of mankind.
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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. At Miramichi Folklore Park there is a gift shop where you can find Miramichi…
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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 technique” of this amazing Sport.…
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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 moving, one gentleman I talked…
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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.
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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.
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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 Band at the Lord Beaverbrook…
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Lovers of words and music will not want to miss Words on Water’s next event at the Rodd Miramichi River Hotel on Tuesday August 9th. Two new books by New Brunswick authors, Josh O’Kane and Zev Bagel, will be featured along with a live musical performance and an Open Mic reading. Doors will open at […]
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Read MoreFrom November 18-20, 2016, the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Fredericton will host the 6th annual emerging musician’s festival now known as FEST FORWARD, formally known as NB-ME.
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