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Derwin Gowan

2019

D-Day invasion remembered

History records that nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel for Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Among them was 20-year-old Charles "Charlie" Reid, who grew up on a farm at Old Ridge just north of St. Stephen.

2019

Voters elect Williamson as MP

Voters in New Brunswick Southwest gave Conservative candidate John Williamson another chance to represent them in Ottawa on October 21. He received 19,457 votes in Canada's 43rd general election, giving him a margin of more than 9,000 over Liberal Karen Ludwig...

2019

MP candidates for NB Southwest state positions

Voters in New Brunswick Southwest have a choice of six candidates in the federal election on Monday, October 21. Liberal Karen Ludwig hopes for a second term while Conservative John Williamson hopes to take back the seat he lost in 2015.

2019

St. Stephen set to weather loss of 65 jobs at mill

St. Stephen will overcome the loss of about 65 jobs at the Arauco forestry mill, Mayor Allan MacEachern and others say. The company cites high costs for wood and natural gas and distance from markets as reasons to stop making particle-board in St. Stephen by the end of the year.

2019

College wildlife teacher challenges termination

Rod Cumberland says the Maritime College of Forest Technology (MCFT) fired him for speaking his views on spraying forests with the controversial herbicide glyphosate. Cumberland, who grew up just outside St. Stephen and has been an instructor on wildlife at the college in Fredericton since 2012...

2019

Disappearance now considered homicide

The RCMP now suspect that a teenager missing from St. Stephen since 2017 died as a result of homicide.

2019

Rock quarry expansion plan hits resistance

The fate of a proposal to expand a stone quarry at Oak Bay lies with provincial Environment and Local Government Minister Jeff Carr.