Bathurst News

Philip Mallory of Nepisiguit Falls is the artist of the month for July at the Smurfit-Stone Public Library in Bathurst.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan a ' Two Canadian soldiers were killed Monday after a suicide bomber drove his vehicle into a military convoy.

Dana Clendenning testified Monday that he received no payments from Fredericton businessman Barry O'Donnell after he became president and CEO of NB Liquor in the fall of 2006.

Lots of fun activities will take place at the Smurfit-Stone Public Library this summer.

Pabineau First Nation near Bathurst is preparing to celebrate this week with its Annual Powwow, taking place Thursday through Sunday.

Complaints about tar liquifying on the Dunlop Road when the thermometer climbs are being heeded by the Department of Transporation.

Transportation Minister Denis Landry was at the Department of Transporation's regional office in Bathurst on June 24 to announce tendered paving contracts totalling $10.7 million that were awarded to St.

The second annual Constable Bruce Hadley Memorial Relay Run for Heart was held last weekend.

PAT HENNESSY did not fight on the beaches of Normandy or fly a Lancaster bomber in the Battle of Britain.

Some Bathurst streets are being closed as a means of earning revenue, but no streets are actually being closed.

Representatives of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization were on hand to answer various questions at last week's open house info session.

Catherine Doucet and Jean Guy Guindon of Bathurst are shown speaking with peter Simmons, director of municipal and community engagement for the Nuclear Waste Management Organization, during a public information session in Bathurst last Thursday on nuclear waste.

Patrick Hennesy in his Canadian Forestry Corps uniform with his wife Beatrice and daughter-in-law, Frances Hennessy, in a photo taken at the Hennessy family home in Bathurst, summer, 1940.

In 2002, Claude Dufresne was brought to the emergency department of the Shawinigan, Que., Hospital with symptoms consistent with a heart attack.

Little Will Loggie built his home in 1898, then rented to a couple of Dealy families; Mel Dealy first and later to Willie Dealy before selling to Ernie Watling.

Local residents can do their part in spreading the word that Bathurst is a great place to hold a convention or sporting event, according to the executive director of Destination Bathurst.

Students at Terry Fox Elementary School set up a lemonade stand last Friday in efforts to raise money towards planing a flower bed outside the school.

The Kimbo Restaurant on St. Peter Avenue reopened last week under new ownership.

I am writing a book on the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland during the Second World War and I am asking your readers for assistance in contacting surviving Veterans, their wives or family members who can help with my research.

The students of Ecole Mathieu Martin were presented with a 2008 Thomas bus this week.