The Middle Island Irish Heritage Festival is under way and will continue throughout the weekend with lots of fun activities for the whole family. To find out more details and what’s happening when, click here to read the story we published earlier this week.. Click to enlarge any of the photos below that we snapped when…

The forecast is looking like cooler cloudy weather with rain possibilities for most of this NB Day long-weekend, but on the brighter side the holiday Monday is shaping up to be a beauty! Let’s keep our fingers crossed that Mother Nature gives us some sunshine and you and your family get out to enjoy at least some of the…

Come spend this New Brunswick Day long weekend at Middle Island Irish Historical Park as they celebrate Irish Heritage! On Friday July 31st from 1 – 3 pm take a guided tour of the Island with a historic character. The kiddies will have fun getting their face painted and everyone will enjoy the Pie Eating Contest at…

It only happens once every five years and … you might need four years to recover! But 2015 is the year to celebrate! Tabusintac Old Home Week kicks off this weekend with a full week jam packed with activities for the whole family! All Roads Lead Home! Tabusintac Old Home Week 2015 *Note – this schedule…

The Middle Island Heritage Festival and Buttercup Productions present On The WInd: A Musical Journey featuring traditional, new age, and locally written Irish Music. Performances will happen every evening beginning at 7:30 pm over this holiday long weekend on July 31st, August 1st, 2nd and 3rd at the James M. Hill Auditorium in Chatham. The…

Any work of fiction that begins with a drunken vagrant talking to a bloated one-eyed corpse certainly has my attention, and that is the way What Kills Good Men (Vagrant Press, 2015) begins. It is … Read more…

I was on the Chatham side of the Miramichi River today looking for places that sell books due to the fact that we no longer have a dedicated book seller here in Miramichi since The … Read more…

Last weekend’s long range forecast turned out to be a whole lot more grey than anticipated. So let’s hope that this weekend Mother Nature turns the tables and we see a lot more sunshine than promised … because we have another HUGE weekend of events happening around the River that you won’t want to miss! Summer…

The spirits wait to greet you at Wilson’s Point on Saturday July 25th at 9 pm! There has been whispering emanating from the graveyard at the Enclosure, voices without bodies, and an unnatural cold clinging to the bones of unsuspecting visitors … Wilson’s Point has always been a haunted place. Plagued by misfortune, disaster, and death,…

On Sunday, July 26th the Central New Brunswick Woodmen’s Museum will be hosting a Car Show ‘n Shine from 11 am to 3 pm. Enter your baby today, whether it’s an antique car, modern car, Harley, Hot Rod, or motorcycle! Or you can register at the gates beginning at 10 am that morning. It’s free to register! Live…

Raymond Fraser is a Canadian author of novels, biographies as well as poetry. In 2012 he was made a member of the Order of New Brunswick for his contributions to literature and New Brunswick’s cultural … Read more…

Kidplayhouse Productions Inc. (KPH), the Miramichi region’s very own non-profit theatre arts company has teamed up with the Irish Festival on the Miramichi to present a brand new musical play, The Raven of Éirean Mhór (erin-more) during this year’s event. This one-act play will run for two public matinees, on Saturday, July 18 and Sunday, July 19, 2015…