Happy Friday everyone! 🙂 – Jaya
(Fredericton-School)
A new school in Fredericton for kindergarten to Grade 5 has received its name
The school is being dubbed Sunset Acres Elementary School, like the area where it’s located.
The name was selected by the Anglophone West School District education council out of 547 submissions from the public and stakeholders.
Designed to accommodate 528 students, the 41-million-dollar facility will include 27 classrooms, as well as gymnasiums, a library, a cafeteria, a music room and a performing arts room.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NB-Officer-Charged)
Police in Saint John, New Brunswick say they have charged one of their officers with assault.
A news release says a public complaint prompted an investigation into the officer.
The release says the allegation did not meet the mandate of the independent police oversight agency, and the Fredericton Police Force investigated instead.
The officer was charged with assault and is scheduled to appear in court on July 3rd.
The force would not release the name of the officer or provide details about his alleged crime, nor would it say why the allegation did not fall within the purview of the police oversight agency.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NB-Shooting)
Police in southern New Brunswick have charged two more people in the recent shooting death of a 20-year-old man in Saint John.
The Saint John Police Force confirmed yesterday that a 17-year-old youth had been charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday.
As well, the police force said 30-year-old Sheldon Scrubb had been charged Thursday with first-degree murder.
On Wednesday, a 20-year-old man appeared in court and was also charged with first-degree murder, but his name was not released.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Lobster-Downturn)
Lobster harvesters in Atlantic Canada aren’t thrilled with the prices they’re getting for their catches as the spring lobster season gets underway.
Bernie Berry, a spokesman for the Coldwater Lobster Association in Nova Scotia, says prices typically dip in May as the season starts, but this season is different.
He says the economic turmoil unleashed by U-S President Donald Trump has made everyone in the industry nervous.
Last month, live lobsters at the wharf were fetching 15-dollars a pound, but that price has since dropped to eight-dollars along Nova Scotia’s Atlantic shore — and as low as six-dollars-and-50-cents in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Assoun-Inquiry)
Nova Scotia’s police watchdog is awaiting word on whether another oversight agency will investigate potential police misconduct in the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun.
It has been five years since the provincial government promised an investigation of police actions in the case of Assoun, who spent 17 years in prison for the killing of his ex-girlfriend before he was acquitted in March 2019.
Erin Nauss, director of the Serious Incident Review Team, says she is hopeful of being able to offer an update about the case “in the near future.”
Nauss has said since early 2024 that another provincial investigatory body was considering taking on the case, but she has been awaiting approval from its government.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NB-Power-Project)
Mi’gmaq United Investment Network and Natural Forces say the Neweg Energy Project is now fully operational in delivering clean, renewable electricity to the New Brunswick Power grid.
The project’s six wind turbines with a combined installed capacity to power around eight-thousand homes each year have been supplying energy to the grid since February.
Neweg marks a successful partnership between MUIN and Natural Forces, reflecting their mutual commitment to sustainable development, community partnership, and Indigenous leadership in clean energy.
Chief Rebbeca at MUIN says green energy projects like Neweg are not only important to reducing greenhouse emissions but also for adding the province’s energy independence and creating opportunities in the green economy. (The Canadian Press)
