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• St. Patrick’s Day filled with laughter and charm
  There is nothing like a good old fashion time like those in West St. Modeste, especially when it’s for a good cause. Take March 17 – St ...
• Sports weekend helps Forteau fund fire truck
  Sports minded people from Blanc Sablon to Red Bay gathered together in Forteau from March 3 to 5 to participate in the weekend games in aid of a ...
• Labrador committee vows to put pressure on province
  A delegation meeting with the provincial transport minister in Goose Bay to try and bring the Trans Labrador highway up to scratch had little ...
• Storm knocks out power to 500 on Lower North Shore...
  Old Man Winter came with a vengeance this week, heavy snow and gale force winds whipping through Blanc Sablon and neighbouring areas. ...
• Labrador group lobbies government for better highways
  “We are now going to take a stand,” said Ida Powell of Charlottetown, “and if there is any federal or provincial representative, whether ...
• Southern Labrador youngsters star on the ice
  “When I’m six I’m going to play hockey like Mason,” said five-year-old Logan Buckle of Long Point, clapping his little hands together when his ...
• The many steps of seal boots
  Derrick Earle and his wife Elsie are perhaps the last few people in Southern Labrador who are still making sealskin boots. The couple, from ...
• Those who weigh together, stay together
  This is not the first time Lindsey Genge has gathered a group of people together for the sake of leading a healthy lifestyle. Some five years ...
• Lovers of snow unite at Nascopi
  Skis and poles stood like sentinels outside Nascopi Ski Lodge in Forteau during registration day recently as locals and residents of surrounding ...
• Hockey night in Lourdes
  The Blanc Sablon Storms, known for their speed skating, were no match against the St. Augustine Raiders who took first place in the annual A ...
• Eroding embankment closing in on Forteau homeowners
  Dennis Flynn has grave concerns about the embankment behind his Harbour Drive home in Forteau — it’s steadily giving way into the ...
• Nalcor meeting highlights plan to cross the Straits
  “With all due respect, the coalition group is barking up the wrong tree. They should be talking to the federal government and not Nalcor ...
• Hockey nights are fun nights in Blanc Sablon
  Seconds before the whistle blew to begin the final game, the young goalie scuffed the glazed ice in front of the net while the other ...
• Fire destroys Southern Labrador store
  The community of West St. Modeste suffered a devastating blow in the early hours of Thursday morning when the local grocery store, and one ...
• Middle Bay house fire claims three lives
  Feelings of grief rippled through the Lower North Shore Quebec communities early last week as news spread of a Middle Bay house fire that ...
• "He had a heart of gold"
  As several large pieces of machinery, back hoes, diggers and heavy trucks sat silently on the freshly dug ground near the site where a man ...
• School can be a real eye opener
  “It’s a very foggy day outside the school but inside the school and inside the hearts of every student the sun is shining to have such a ...
• English school in Blanc Sablon on shaky ground
  “I don’t want to see a hole in the ground in five years time,” said Lucy de Mendonca, “it’s about keeping the vitality of the community ...
• New road for Black Rocks
  A dangerous curve in the road at Black Rocks, Blanc Sablon, will be straightened in the spring. The stretch of road, which leads from the ...
• Rangers rally for victims of hurricane Igor
  Roxanne Notley is very proud of the Junior Canadian Rangers under her command in Port Hope Simpson. Recently the group held a fundraiser ...
• Delayed revamp plans on target for spring 2011
  The road leading to the Blanc Sablon ferry terminal will be widened and a new ticket office built before 2012 if a project proposed by ...
• Whole coast to benefit from wharf upgrade, says mayor
  Red Bay wants more cruise ships to visit the region and thanks to $400,000 in recent funding from Atlantic Canada Opportunity Agency ...
• A venture to the Arctic
  Mr Davis bought the boat about five years ago. It had been caught in a storm off Magdalen Islands and when it ran into fuel trouble, her ...
• New warden plots path through unchartered territory
  Bryce Fequet has been appointed the first warden of the newly formed Municipal Regional County (MRC) on Quebec’s Lower North Shore. And the ...
• Wood harvester logging it out in Port Hope Simpson
  With cutbacks to the Pulp and Paper Mill in Corner Brook in 2008, S&N Wood Products Incorporated of Port Hope Simpson suddenly found ...
• Sentinels continue to serve
  Before the cod moratorium in 1992, there were 25 fishermen in Bradore Bay and fishing was good. Now only 10 still fish and the only reason they ...
• Brazen black bear stalks berry picker
  “He was looking me straight in the face, I could see his big brown eyes and all the flies swarming around his head. I said ‘oh my God, this ...
• Still waiting
  It has been more than two months since Southern Labrador residents sent claims to the office of the opposition in St. John’s for damages ...
• No shelters
  "We deal with Newfoundland as well, there is a shelter in Corner Brook. Should someone need immediate assistance, we always find secure places ...
• First tourist of the season visits Cartwright
  When a polar bear comes to town in Southern Labrador towns like Cartwright, people don't kick up much of a fuss. A polar bear walking through ...