Derwin Gowan

A funeral on May 26 possibly brings home the true cost of homelessness in St. Stephen. At 7:23 a.m. on May 21 the St. Stephen and Calais fire departments and the RCMP responded to a call to what had been a long abandoned house at 386 Milltown Boulevard.

The rain that started on June 2 came as blessed relief to crews fighting the Stein Lake forest fire in the Bocabec and Chamcook area not far from St. Andrews since the previous Sunday afternoon, May 28. The blaze, which St.

Marharyta Sanina, her husband Sasha and sons Timur, 9, and Alex, 2, arrived in Canada from Kharkiv, Ukraine, on February 14. Sasha found work as a truck driver, Timur is in Grade 4, and Marharyta looks after Alex at home -- at least until she finds a babysitter.

Homelessness will not go away with the arrival of warm weather, St. Stephen's Mayor Allan MacEachern says. An "out-of-the-cold" warming centre opened on December 13 to prevent people without homes from freezing to death this winter...

Voters in St. Stephen and area stuck with a familiar face to lead them on their new municipal adventure. The Town of St. Stephen's current mayor, Allan MacEachern, took 1,071 votes in special elections on November 28, handily beating the 378 votes for C.