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The Pleasant Point Health Center (PPHC) did not meet a number of federal and tribal health and safety requirements for quality of care during the period from 2014 through 2016, according to a report issued in July by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General.

Discussions regarding the ongoing absence of a ferry link to the mainland continue before the Campobello council, including during the August 27 meeting.

Cody and Amanda Bulmer and their six children lost their home on Mahar Lane in Perry on the afternoon of Friday, September 7, when a fire that started in the garage quickly engulfed the attached house.

At their August 13 meeting, Grand Manan's village councillors heard from a delegation of Ingalls Head residents concerned about dangerous dogs in their neighbourhood. Speaking on behalf of the group, Marilyn Guptill described an attack on her father's dog.

Resident frustrations at the continued lack of ferry service to Campobello Island boiled over during the July 30 meeting of the Campobello council, when a standing-room only crowd filled the meeting room to voice their concerns.

The effort to save the endangered North Atlantic right whale, with a population believed to be fewer than 450, was bolstered this week by the work of the Campobello Whale Rescue Team, which disentangled fishing gear from one of the whales, a 10-year-old male, off Grand Manan.