Perth-Andover News

Coffee lovers in Southern Victoria will soon face a shorter drive to get their Tim Hortons' fix.

Valley Trails Bicycle Vacations will rent all-inclusive bike tours for day-long or multi-day excursions.

There is little point in Perth-Andover creating more bylaws without any law enforcement officers to ensure village residents are complying with these laws, Coun.

Summer reading club programs this week! The 2009 slogan is "Be ARTrageous @ Your Library", so there will be a lot of crafty things to learn! The school-age program will be held on Thursdays at 1 p.m. beginning July 2. The preschool program will be held on Fridays at 10:30 a.m. beginning July 3. Registration is necessary, program attendance is not.

The gloomy economic picture and cuts to a provincial student summer job program have left many youth in the Upper River Valley area scrambling to find summer work.

The Perth-Andover Rotary Club, long an enthusiastic financial supporter of dozens of community oriented projects in the village, started the ball rolling with a donation of $600, Southern Victoria High School kicked in a similar amount, and the Province of New Brunswick will add more in the effort to help the school's science teachers get the ...

The Religious Hospitallers of St.Joseph, who include the sisters of Perth-Andover, will gather to celebrate the arrival of the first three RHSJ from France to America 350 years ago.

Summer Reading Club: The 2009 slogan is "Be ARTrageous @ Your Library", so there will be a lot of crafty things to learn! The school-age program will be held on Thursdays at 1 p.m. beginning July 2. The preschool program will be held on Fridays at 10:30 a.m. beginning July 3. Registration is necessary, program attendance is not.

July 1: Volunteers are needed to celebrate Canada's birthday. Plans are underway for the biggest, most exciting and fun-filled day of 2009.

The 2009 Southern Victoria High School Class of '09 prom parade began on the Perth side of Perth-Andover shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday, June 13 and the grads and dates made their way to SVHS, their second home since grade nine.

A Perth-Andover area teenager who pleaded guilty to breaching an undertaking by failing to observe his curfew and failing to abstain from communicating with another youth was sentenced to nine months of supervised probation by Grand Falls youth justice court Judge Paul Duffie on June 9. "On April 30, at 5:31 p.m., the RCMP received a call ...

Library summer hours were changed on June 15! The library will be open Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. and Thursdays from noon to 5 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. SUMMER READING CLUB: Don't forget to watch for program details.

The Tobique River will be choked with canoes and music lovers this Saturday for a distinctive New Brunswick summer event and one of its most popular.

The Larlee Creek Hullabaloo is East Coast Canada's newest music festival and preparations for the Second Annual Event are well underway.

Billy John O'Donnell, 34, changed his plea to guilty to a charge of uttering a threat to Gerry Lebel to cause serious bodily harm on Nov.

Note: we change to our summer hours on June 15! Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays - 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. and Thursdays from noon to 5 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. SUMMER READING CLUB: Don't forget to watch for program details.

Perth-Andover's ever popular farm market will kick off their 2009 season on Saturday, June 13 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 pm, at the River Valley Civic Centre June 13 the Perth-Andover Farm Market will be opening for another summer.

Rural homeowners and businesses throughout the Upper St. John River Valley will be among the first to benefit from a New Brunswick initiative to provide high speed Internet access to every New Brunswick home, according to a joint Barrett Xplore Inc.

A Grand Falls area teenager will have to wait until June 4 for her sentencing on charges of stealing pills from her mother on Feb.

The Larlee Creek Hullabaloo is East Coast Canada's newest music festival and preparations for the 2nd annual event are well underway.