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• Most spring fishers now have their fishing tags
  ALBERTON -- The managing director of the P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association estimates over 80 per cent of the Island’s fishing captains has relied ...
• Foreign workers coming to co-op fish plant
  “We’ve been short workers the last number of years, probably five or six years, and we haven’t been able to fill the positions,” explained Jeff ...
• Boat destroyed in backyard fire
  SEACOW POND --A Seacow Pond fisherman, Mickey Dorgan, had been working on his boat on Thursday and was planning to be ready to go at the herring ...
• I’ve got confidence in the plan that we’ve...
  O’LEARY -- Despite community pleadings for discussion and consultation, Health Minister Doug Currie insists the changes in health care that he ...
• Currie seeking engineer’s report on SMH
  TYNE VALLEY -- Health Minister Doug Currie expects to have an engineers report in his hands within a few weeks which will tell whether it is ...
• Little change in service delivery at CHO – Health...
  O’LEARY -- Once the announced changes to health services across the Island have been completed, services at Community Hospital will be ...
• St. Edward runner resolves to return to Boston Marathon
  ST. EDWARD -- He had completed the Boston Marathon nearly a half hour earlier, so Paul Dalton and his race companions were well out of harm’s way ...
• Better lobster prices ahead?
  ALBERTON - The president of the P.E.I. Fishermen's Association says he is expecting strong prices when the spring lobster season opens in two ...
• Rural hospitals neither the problem nor the solution...
  ELLERSLIE -- Although critical of the provincial government for the sweeping changes it has announced for the delivery of health care services in ...
• April 27 nomination day for band council positions
  LENNOX ISLAND -- Members of Lennox Island First Nation will pick their new band council on June 1. Nominations for council positions will be ...
• Late April start likely for snow crab fleet
  NORTHPORT -- Prince Edward Island’s traditional snow crab fleet is tied up at least until April 26 or 27, Carter Hutt, president of the 28-member ...
• Ellerslie meeting resolves that health care services...
  ELLERSLIE -- Residents of the 22 communities serviced by the Stewart Memorial Hospital want services to remain as they are until a ...
• Hospital’s fundraising campaign gets big first-day...
  ALBERTON -- The Western Hospital Foundation’s equipment fund campaign is already approaching 70 per cent of its objective, and the campaign was ...
• Better lobster prices ahead? PEIFA thinks so
  ALBERTON -- The president of the P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association says he is expecting strong prices when the spring lobster season opens in two ...
• Angling returns at Big Pierre Jacques River
  GLENWOOD -- While the bites were less frequent than most anglers would have liked, there was one really good thing to say for the opening day ...
• Seeking input on sport and recreation needs for...
  ALBERTON -- The Western Region Sport and Recreation Council wants to hear from Alberton and area residents on the types of sport and recreation ...
• Collision sends two to hospital
  ROSEBANK -- A man and a woman from St. Roch, both around 40 years of age, were transported to Prince County Hospital by ambulances Wednesday ...
• Fire loss ‘could have been worse’
  ALBERTON -- Shawna Ellsworth had just put her boys to bed Tuesday around 8:20 p.m. when a neighbor arrived, banging on her door. Desiree LeClair ...
• Currie wants to keep politics out of health care...
  ALBERTON -- Politics need to stay out of the discussion on health care services, health minister Doug Currie suggested during a health ...
• Mayor Murphy fires back at Councilor Dunn
  ALBERTON -- The mayor of Alberton has taken exception to recent comments in the media by councilor Natasha Dunn. Dunn had asked that council ...
• Minister grilled on health care changes
  ALBERTON -- The aging population and the level of chronic disease in this province is working to drive some of the changes the P.E.I. government ...
• Town councilor choosing meeting with health minister...
  ALBERTON -- An Alberton Town Councilor reacted angrily Friday upon receiving confirmation that the monthly council meeting would be held Monday ...
• Committees lining up questions for health minister
  ALBERTON -- The chair of the Save Western Hospital ER committee is anticipating a large crowd Monday night when Health Minister Doug Currie comes ...
• MacKinnon new captain of Rimouski Oceanic
  During a team wrap-up event with their fans on Tuesday night, the Oceanic introduced Summerside native Ryan MacKinnon as their new captain.“I ...
• Seniors’ Expo back for 24th year
  MILL RIVER -- The 24th annual Seniors’ Expo might still be two months away, but organizers are reminding interested participants not to wait ...
• Doctors, patients happy with CECs – Cumberland...
  ALBERTON -- The mayor of Springhill Nova Scotia predicts West Prince residents will find satisfaction with the Collaborative Emergency Centre ...
• Alberton mayor to adjust meeting time
  ALBERTON -- Alberton town councilors will be able to be in attendance next Monday when Health minister Doug Currie comes to town to explain the ...
• National Stick ch’ships underway
  Play in the Canadian Open two-person stick curling championships got underway Monday morning at the Cornwall Curling Club. There are 40 teams ...
• Improved response time important factor with new...
  ALBERTON -- Approximately seven new paramedics will be hired over the next 45 to 60 days as Island EMS prepares for the addition of two Rapid ...
• Sobeys/Griffins museum promotion ‘exceeded our...
  O’LEARY -- When members of the Board of Directors of the O’Leary Museum Association were brain-storming fundraising ideas for the Canadian Potato ...