Profile of Juris Graney

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Juris Graney is a staff writer at the Northern Pen. You can find him driving Route 430 chasing down stories that matter most to readers. You can follow him on ...

All articles of Juris Graney

• Obituaries, January 30
  ALBERT CHARLES PILGRIM Main Brook Passed away peacefully on Jan. 8, 2012, Mr. Albert Charles Pilgrim, in his 89th ye
• From all across the world
  Call it serendipity, call it fate or call it luck but the unlikely reunion of Cathy Baker and Sophie Boeckenfoeide on the northern tip of ...
• Roll on March 5...
  When, on May 31, 2011, retiring MHA and then Speaker of the House Roger Fitzgerald proclaimed "This House now stands adjourned" few were aware it ...
• Obituaries, January 9
  MARTHA G. DAWE Main Brook Passed away at the John M. Gray Centre in St. Anthony on Dec. 22, 2011, Martha G. Dawe in her 97th year. L
• Broadband initiative falls short
  Students living in towns like Bird Cove, Pond Cove and St. Paul's, who are dependent on high speed internet for school work, are at a huge ...
• Delving into the mind of Grenfell
  The parallels between Prairie grain elevators and fishing stages and processing facilities in outport Newfoundland communities might not ...
• Obituaries, Jan 2
  MARTHA DOBBIN Port au Choix It is with great sadness that the family of the late Martha Dobbin announce her passing on Thursday, Dec. 15, ...
• Power cheerleaders flying high in Rocky Harbour
  Flyers shoot into the air like human fireworks, zipping and zotting in straight, vertical lines.Momentum provided by five teammates propels them ...
• A long way from pond hockey
  Willie P. Simms and his wife Millie stare at the photo for a few seconds, then look up in different directions. Mr. Simms peers over his left ...
• Memories of Millie
  Millie Diamond leans forward in her chair at the same time an unseen clock strikes three chimes and the fridge in the kitchen of her Nameless ...
• Taking stock after the storm
  Leaning on his recently built bridge, Adrian Myers is quite rightly baffled. He's confused not only to how his home of 17 years survived last ...
• Obituaries, December 5
  DORA EMILY NORMAN Flowers Cove It is with great sadness that the family of the late Dora Norman announce her passing on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011 ...
• "We're watching you, icebergs"
  Engineering work in Shoal Cove is underway to provide the first ever iceberg surveillance system to track frozen giants as they pass over the ...
• And the food floodeth in
  A record response to the Tim Hortons Food Drive means the larder is full at the St. Anthony and Area Food Sharing Association just in time for ...
• You can't fight Jack Frost
  Winter is coming. Every morning when the sun busts through the clouds and that thin film of ice left from the sub zero temperatures on the salty ...
• Replacement groomer to renew faith, bring better...
  In a bid to renew faith in the Newfoundland and Labrador Snowmobile Federation (NLSF) and their commitment to the Northern Peninsula's trail ...
• Accolades in Englee
  It can be hard not to dwell on the negatives of municipal politics, especially when your council is located in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. ...
• Conche rocks
  The entire Sacred Heart All-Grade school population - all 14 of them - huddled around the phone in principal Robyn Park's office last Thursday, ...
• St. Anthony without water on Saturday
  St. Anthony's water will be shut off on Saturday for 12 hours as contractors work to upgrade to the town's intake at St. Anthony Pond.Residents ...
• Regional board promises keep pursuing broadband...
  Improving broadband internet access between St. Barbe and Trout River will again be one of the major focuses of the Red Ochre Regional Board this ...
• Bruises, blood but plenty of good times
  While some people used the Remembrance Day long weekend to get out of town and head away for a brief stint before winter rolls in, hundreds of ...
• Nor turrs but plenty of tales
  When the fishing was good and times were prosperous, there weren't too many communities in rural Newfoundland and Labrador where you could rattle ...
• Council takes top award for innovation
  St. Anthony council joined an illustrious group when they were awarded the Municipalities of Newfoundland and Labrador Torngat Award for ...
• Preparing for the real thing
  More than 20 members from four Northern Peninsula fire departments converged on the Straits Fire Department at the weekend to undergo two days of ...
• Out of time
  The bright yellow warning sign midway down Route 432 says ‘Rough Road for 20km', but many believe it should be repainted to read ‘Rough Surface ...
• Mitchelmore joins Bennett as fishery critics
  Expect some vocal critiquing of the province's fishery from the Northern Peninsula when the House of Assembly opens in March.Member for The ...
• Remembrance Day services draw big crowd
  Several hundred people turned out for a Remembrance Day service in St. Anthony today and it was similar scenes right across the Northern ...
• Construction work severs communications to Northern...
  The cause of last Wednesday's blackouts, which affected 400 households in Cook's Harbour, St. Anthony and townships from St. ...
• Chili, chef salad and chicken nuggets
  Delilah Rose isn't just the cook at Canon Richards Memorial Academy - she's matriarch, problem solver, logistics specialist, nutritionist, ...
• Back in business
  The revitalization of the Bird Cove Volunteer Fire Department has begun. Two weeks ago the brigade took possession of a former Nalcor ...