Tantramar Report: Recent Episodes
Erica Butler & David Gordon Koch
Each weekday staff reporters Erica Butler and David Gordon Koch and the rest of the CHMA news team bring you local interviews and stories.
On today’s show, we listen in as consultants present the final Tantramar brand and logo design to Tantramar council, and talk to Corporate Services director Kieran Miller about the next steps for the new design. Plus in briefs, CUPE and the town of Tantramar have come to a new collective agreement, and a new charitable program at Mount A doles out on-campus food credits to students in need.
On today’s show, we get the update on Sackville’s stormwater control project, including the increase in provincial funding needed to complete the project with a new aboiteau to drain into the Tantramar River. Plus we recap some of the stories from Monday’s Tantramar council committee of the whole meeting, including re-appointments to Tantramar’s climate advisory committee, plans to improve the outdoor skating rink in Dorchester, and an update from the Sackville RCMP on impending charges related to arrests last week on Pond Shore Road.
On today’s show, we talk with Struts Gallery programming coordinator Simone Schmidt about a new project happening next week called No Ceiling: It’s About Time, featuring 14 artists in different disciplines all dealing with the topic of time. Plus we hear from a school district councillor about why the Anglophone East DEC decided to turn down Bill Hogan’s request on Policy 713. And in briefs: Freya Milliken wins a Music New Brunswick award, Mayor Andrew Black goes to Ottawa, and the police need help finding a ‘person of interest.’
On today’s show, we stop in at the Tantramar Civic Centre as the town celebrated a $50,000 donation from Moneris, going towards two recreation projects in Sackville and Dorchester. Plus in briefs: the Sackville RCMP are looking for help identifying a person of interest in a stabbing incident in early October; and the call is out for potential 2024 inductees to the Sports Wall of Fame.
On today’s show we take you to the 25th anniversary celebration of the Tantramar Wetlands Centre, an outdoor and nature education centre based in the Tantramar High School, which includes an actual freshwater wetland between the school and the Trans Canada Trail. And in briefs, the Anglophone East District Education Council votes to stand their ground on LGBTQ+ policies, and an uneventful start to a new provincial legislative session.
On today’s show, we continue coverage of a Future of Our Health Care meeting on October 12 in Sackville, this time focusing on updates regarding the future of Sackville’s emergency department, and the Beal University nursing program which will start leasing space in the Sackville hospital in January. Plus, a tragic murder in Sackville last week, and the return of MLAs to the New Brunswick legislature for a new session.
On today’s show, we bring you some highlights from Thursday’s Future of our Health Care meeting, with a focus on updates from Horizon management about a new primary care clinic in Sackville. We also talk with meeting organizer and MLA Megan Mitton about health care in the region, and get her take on the lingering possibility of an early election call. Plus in briefs: Mt Allison is number one for the 24th time, and Ducks Unlimited raises funds and awareness with a fun run this Saturday.