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A new partnership between a local company and a newcomers association is helping to settle immigrants into the area and fill job vacancies at the same time.

With the vaccination of children five to 12 years old now underway, two doctors answer questions from New Brunswick parents.

It may be fun to float Mint-Chip and Chinto as new names for the consolidated villages of Minto and Chipman, but the mayors see nothing funny about the proposed merger.

Two Suffolk residents created a support group for families who have been touch by violence. No one can understand how the members feel and how they choose to cope, unless they also have had someone taken away from them too soon.

New Brunswick’s foggiest airport has some good news for travellers often waylaid by low visibility.

Five more New Brunswickers have died from COVID-19, Public Health reported Wednesday. That pushes the total number of COVID-related deaths to 24 in the past eight days and 99 since the pandemic began.

Links This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate Nearly 80 years ago, Richard Wright became one of the most famous Black writers in the United States with the publication of “Native Son.” The novel’s searing critique of systemic racism made it a best-seller and inspired a generation of Black writers. In 1941, Wright wrote a new novel titled “The Man Who Lived Underground,” but publishers refused to release it, in part because the book was filled with graphic descr...

Posted: May 22, 2021 4:48 PM ET | Last Updated: May 22 A classroom at Bloomfield Elementary School in Prince Edward Island shows various public health measures, including physically distanced desks, hand sanitizer and a face mask.(John Robertson/CBC) "Stressful and horrible." "Exhausting." "Overall, just frustrating." Those are descriptions of the experience of some teens and teachers in Canadian schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period in which the Canadian education system has endured ...

Now, for the first time, the full text of Wrights incendiary novel about race and violence in America, is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, “Memories Of My Grandmother.” Photo: AP More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a bestselling author and very much in line with the present. The Man Who Lived Underground, a short novel written in the 1940s and never published in full until this spring, is the surreal but credible story of a B...

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