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• Dialysis committee encouraged
  The five-member committee met with Ghiz and Currie on Monday. On Tuesday the premier announced that the closure of dialysis units in Alberton and ...
• 'He saved everything'
  TIGNISH - Theresa Martin watches as her daughter, Bonnie Gaudet, gingerly shuffles through a huge pile of old newspaper clippings. She knows the ...
• Eyes in the sky
  TIGNISH - A recent RCMP press release, accompanied by a photo showing a car burning rubber as it exited the St. Simon and St. Jude Church parking ...
• Spring sports underway at Westisle
  “Westisle boys and girls are consistently in the top four,” he conceded. “We kind of expect to always be there.” Pitching has always been a ...
• Needlework group recycles grocery bags
  O'LEARY -- Sure, there's the mittens and scarves, booties and baby blankets, slippers and socks, afghans and cushion covers. But the pet project ...
• Construction underway on new home for Bobbi-Jo
  TIGNISH -- Bobbi-Jo and the LeClair family could be moving into a new home on MacLeod Lane in Tignish as early as August. Ground was broken for ...
• Mooseheads’ Ashley looking forward to even bigger...
  Ashley, who turned 19 in February, finished the regular season with 55 points. That was 16 more than he registered in his rookie year. He ...
• Passersby rescue homeowner
  NORTHPORT - Passersby rescued a Northport resident from his burning home Friday evening. Alberton fire chief Kenny Ramsay said the single storey ...
• Minor hockey rates taking a jump in Tyne Valley
  TYNE VALLEY – A notice that minor hockey rates would likely be taking a significant jump for 2012-13 didn’t bring more people than normal to the ...
• Soccer and teaching in Korea on Baglole’s radar
  SUMMERSIDE – While Justin Baglole’s five-year run as a member of Mount Allison University’s soccer team will officially end with his graduation ...
• Snow crab fishery off to early, strong start
  ALBERTON – It’s less than a week old, but already, the 2012 season for the P.E.I. snow crab fleet is winding down. Carter Hutt, president of the ...
• PCFA wants fishers to join
  O’LEARY – The president of the Prince County Fishermen’s Association made a pitch Tuesday for commercial fishers to pay their annual membership ...
• Fire consumes building but firefighters save...
  ST. FELIX – Because of the extent of destruction, the provincial fire marshal is unable to determine the cause of a Monday night fire that ...
• Fall lobster opening date debated
  O’LEARY – The opening date of Prince Edward Island’s fall lobster fishery could be the subject of a special meeting in about a month’s time. ...
• All the comforts of home
  Shirley MacIsaac has all the comforts of home in her new apartment. The long-time O’Leary resident even brought along her piano when she moved ...
• Clippers capture Maritime Hockey North junior C title
  It’s the fourth year in a row, and the sixth time in 10 years, that a Nova Scotia team has captured the championship tournament. Norris’ first ...
• Residents not giving up on power line relocation
  FORESTVIEW – Patience has worn thin for Locke and Howlan road residents who have been waiting to have high-voltage transmission lines removed ...
• Pownal in the lead at Maritime Hockey North junior C...
  The Red Devils lead the Perry’s Construction Maritime Hockey North junior C tournament, being played at the Tignish Credit Union Arena, with two ...
• Gaudet’s hat trick paces Aces
  The five-team tournament is being played at the Tignish Credit Union Arena.The Aces defeated New Brunswick’s short-staffed entry, Hampton ...
• ACOA funding helps put Holland College on cutting...
  ALBERTON – The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is providing Holland College with $269,044 to help prepare its metal trades students for the ...
• Red Devils avenge Aces' league championship win
  The Red Devils downed the host Tignish Perry’s Construction Aces 7-4 in the opening game of the Perry’s Construction Maritime Hockey North Junior ...
• Cameron hoping his first year of NHL coaching is far...
  “It’s a great city,” said the Kinkora native and Kildare Capes summer resident, who is now residing in the Ottawa suburb of Kanata. “The fans are ...
• Alberton expanding new subdivision
  ALBERTON – Interest in Alberton’s new Emma Drive subdivision is even stronger than Town Council anticipated, finance committee chair David Cahill ...
• Aces, Red Devils look to end dominance of N.S., N.B....
  That’s because the Chester Clippers swept the defending champions, the Clare Lions, in this year’s Nova Scotia final.Last year’s Maritime Hockey ...
• Time capsule opening brings back memories
  ALBERTON – From Barney toothpaste, to Pokemon fads and Rainbow Valley, former Alberton Elementary School students rediscovered Saturday what was ...
• Aces, Red Devils open Maritime junior C tournament
  TIGNISH – The Tignish Perry’s Construction Aces will face a familiar opponent in the opening game of the Maritime Hockey North Junior C ...
• Some Mill River golfers fearful of private ownership
  WOODSTOCK - Longtime golfer Rodney McInnis says he fears what would become of the Mill River Provincial Golf Course if it were sold into private ...
• PEIFA urging Ashfield to rethink herring trawls
  ALBERTON - The P.E.I. Fishermen's Association is continuing to apply pressure in hopes of convincing federal Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield ...
• Business as usual at Credit Union
  TYNE VALLEY -- As he made the rounds Monday of the three branches that make up the newly merged Évangéline-Central Credit Union, Ira Smith ...
• Driver hospitalized after vehicle leaves road
  MILBURN – A 45-year-old male was taken to Western Hospital in Alberton and subsequently transferred to Prince County Hospital following a ...