MSA President Mark Hambrook attended the DFO consultation held at Metepenagiag Lodge on March 19th. The e-mail to Minister Ashfield below was MSA’s initial response to the meeting at which DFO told attendees they were going to close all angling fisheries from the Newcastle Bridge to the Red Bank bridge from May 1st to June […]

The Rock ‘n Roll Festival and Canada’s Irish Festival in Miramichi have come together this year in an exciting new promotion called “Sham-Rockin’ the Miramichi!” which has the festivals sharing advertising and volunteer resources to benefit the entire Miramichi Region. “We are so excited to be partnering together to bring more people and more fun…

In commemoration of a turning point in North American history, Sisters Under Sail, a non-profit organization that runs leadership programs for teen girls aboard a tall ship, will be sailing along the St. Lawrence and throughout the Great Lakes with teenage daughters of Canadian Forces and United States military families this summer. Sailing up the…

Not everyone can say they’ve gotten the thumbs up from Don Cherry, but one Miramichi man can. If you were watching Coach’s Corner last Saturday night, you may have recognized a familiar name. At the end of the segment Cherry introduced a video for Special Hockey International featuring a song called “Yes I Can” which…

On Thursday, March 21, Blackville High School teacher Allan Carter received the Marjorie Sinclair Award for Commitment to Technology in Learning at the 2013 Anglophone North School District CUTE Awards. The CUTE Awards (Creative Use of Technology in Ed…

In celebration of Easter, the DowntownS Miramichi Newcastle Business District is offering three great promotions! Easter Colouring Contest Pick up and drop off your artwork at participating Downtown businesses for your change to WIN! Prizes will be given for the following age categories: 2-5, 6-9, and 10-13. Thirty, twenty and ten Downtown Dollars will be awarded to winners…

The Community Inclusion Network and St. Thomas University are hosting a “Poverty Game” on April 16th, facilitated by the Urban Core Support Network. The workshop is designed to help people better understand what it might be like to live and raise a family on a low income. People are put into teams, where they will need…

There are four confirmed income tax clinics in our region. Volunteers are set up to help low income folks with simple tax situations to fill out their declarations. Every year thousands and thousands of dollars are lost in the form of benefits by people that can’t or don’t file their tax returns. People can drop…

The Food Security Network is supporting a number of projects related to food access and food literacy. One of these is a mobile kitchen project where Rubbermaid bins are put together to be lent out to different groups needing small cooking equipment and basic ingredients to put on a collective kitchen or any kind of…

Blackville School was recently selected as one of twelve schools across Canada to receive funds in the 2013 Future Generation Tech Lab program. Sponsored by Future Shop, Blackville School received $15,000 which will allow the school to purchase more eq…

Bill Blanchard sent us a couple of photographs of his new narrowboat with a very familiar name that he launched recently at Crick near Northampton in the UK. “I think it will be the only one with that name on the English Canals,” he said. “Narrowboats initially were used at the start of the industrial…

Candace Carnahan has been motivating people from all over the world with her personal story and contagious energy. Now we may get a chance to see her racing across Canada with her partner Hugh MacKay on the Amazing Race Canada. Candace and Hugh are very active in hiking and outdoor sports and they are eager…