Plaster Rock News

Gail Fellows DeGrace and Valerie Tompkins lead children in a Christmas sing-along during Family Night at the Plaster Rock Public School Library on Dec.

Irving Tissue is the latest industrial firm to advocate for the New Brunswick government's plan to sell much of NB Power to Quebec's electric utility.

Media mistress Jackelyn Giroux stays rooted in her home province. A20 Jim Lavoie For the third time in less than 18 months, Global Universal Pictures President Jackelyn Giroux is bringing a feature film to be shot in her native province of New Brunswick.

Fraser Paper received court approval to form a new company that will focus on producing specialty paper.

It is with anger and humiliation that I read about the behaviour and character displayed by Cy LeBlanc and David Alward in the legislature on Thursday of last week.

Fraser Papers Inc. , the insolvent Toronto-based specialty-paper maker, won a judgea s approval to sell its paper and lumber mill assets at an auction with a minimum bid set by Brookfield Asset Management Inc.

Ervan Cronk, a union reprepresentative, is calling on the New Brunswick government to protect the pensions of past and current Fraser Papers workers.

The agreement to sell NB Power to Hydro-Quebec once againdominated question period in the New Brunswick legislature on Friday.

Students and staff of Andover Elementary Community School have recorded a CD of traditional Christmas singing and the majority of the proceeds will go to help children in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa.

Nearly nine months after it closed the Plaster Rock facility, Fraser Papers Inc.

Fraser Papers Inc. announced today that it has filed a proposal with the Ontario Court overseeing its restructuring proceeding under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act for a hearing on December 10, 2009.

About two dozen people protesting the sale of NB Power were met with an open door, a slammed door and a locked door as they visited local MLAs offices yesterday.

Investment: Union asks government for assurances that Fraser Papers Inc. retirees won't be out 40 per cent of their pensions B1 REBECCA PENTY Telegraph-Journal The underfunded pension obligations that were blamed in part for putting Fraser Papers Inc.

As protesters loudly railed against the pending sale of NB Power to Hydro-Quebec, Shawn Graham continued to defend the deal, saying it was already protecting jobs and spurring the interest of companies looking to set up shop here.

Published on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 12:00AM EST Last updated on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 3:06AM EST E lsie Hathaway is glad that Britain will apologize for sending her and other poor children to former colonies, including Canada, to work as servants in homes and institutions where many became victims of abuse.

As the government continues to tout the virtues of the proposed sale of NB Power, many observers are left weighing the benefits for residential customers versus those for large industry.

After nine months of deafening silence, the saws at Fraser Papers Inc. lumber mill in Plaster Rock will once again be humming in a little more than a week.

Fraser Papers Inc. today reported financial results for the third quarter ended October 3, 2009.

The Department of Health will spend an estimated $1 million to have an Ontario firm review examinations performed by a former Grand Falls-area radiologist.

Workers for Morin Curbing installed a new concrete curb and sidewalk along East Riverside Drive in Perth-Andover. The $130,000 project is almost complete.