Giv'er Miramichi
Mother Nature provided a much needed couple of days of rain last weekend and early this week. The result was a spike in catching fish as they came to life and were on the move. Let’s hope this continues as it is time for the Fall runs to begin. If you are out angling next…
The Ultimate Showdown — the Chi City Showdown — happens this Saturday September 19th and Sunday September 20th at Speedway Miramichi, 85 McKinnon Road, in Douglastown! Saturday is everything racing as the New Brunswick Sportsman Short Track Challenge makes its final stop in Chi City. One hundred lap feature, with the Atlantic modified tour, Street stock, Mini Stock, and the Eastern…
A great show is lined up for this Sunday in Miramichi in support of the New Brunswick Country Music Hall of Fame! The fundraising concert happens at the Beaverbrook Kin Centre, 100 Newcastle Blvd., around the Square in Newcastle on Sunday September 20th starting at 2 pm. Advance tickets are $15, $18 at the door. Tickets are on…
Last weekend’s MHL Home Opener at the Miramichi Civic Centre didn’t end well for our Miramichi Timberwolves after a disappointing third period that saw the T-Wolves defeated 4-3 by the South Shore Lumberjacks. The season is young and full of opportunity for wins! This weekend the T-Wolves travel to St. Stephen on Friday to face off…
See TNB’s You Play Beautifully this Friday night, September 18th at the Vogue Theatre, 50 Cunard Street in Chatham. The curtain rises at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $20 per person or $15 for students and are available at Brookdale Flower shop in Newcastle and Scott’s Pharmasave in Chatham.
As a kick-off to Hunger Awareness Week, the Northumberland Food Security Network is challenging local workplaces to raise money and/ or collect food donations for our local food banks for four weeks between September 21st and October 19, 2015. In the Miramichi area, 11% of families do not have secure access to food (My Community at a…
The Napan Home and School hosted a fun family day on Saturday September 12th on the school grounds. The event provided fun for all ages with a BBQ, jumping castle, dress up booth, playground activities and bake sale. The event celebrates fall, kids return back to school, and the community coming together. Click to enlarge any of…
In a continuing effort to improve fire service training in New Brunswick, the annual Fire Service Workshop hosted by the New Brunswick Community College and the New Brunswick Association of Fire Chiefs happened over the weekend. The event was held Friday September 11th and Saturday September 12th at NBCC Miramichi, the Rodd Miramichi River pool, and…
Oatcakes and Courage (2013, Quattro) by Joyce Grant-Smith was the 2013 co-winner of the Ken Klonsky Novella Contest. It’s 125 pages are filled with the tense, realistic story of a small ship (the Hector) of Scottish migrants bound for Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1773.
Miramichi Accessible Transit (MAT) proudly hosted an Open House on Saturday September 12th with an official ribbon cutting ceremony and tour of the facility. The new building, located at 21 Walsh Avenue in the Chatham Industrial Park, represents the first time MAT has been able to provide service from a permanent residence. The purchase of this building was made possible through the…
The weather was perfect for the Four Hours of French Fort Cove Mountain Bike Marathon yesterday, Sunday September 13th. Thirty-nine riders from across New Brunswick ventured onto some of the most impressive single track in the province on a 10.6 km loop around the beautiful French Fort Cove trails. The event was divided up into team, male and female categories and…
There was lots of excitement at the Innovative Hybrid Wresting (IHW) 10th Anniversary event at the Miramichi Curling Club on Saturday September 12th with special guest WWE Hall of Famer, Jake “The Snake” Roberts! Fans screamed and cheered as their favourite wrestlers took to the ring including Dick Durning, Fantana, Remi Petit and Julien Young. Jake “The Snake”…
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