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Category Archives: Town of Sackville
Court records reveal Sackville managers’ legal battle to keep their jobs in Tantramar
Two senior managers who worked for the Town of Sackville filed separate lawsuits in 2022 and 2023 challenging their removal from their jobs in the newly amalgamated municipality of Tantramar, according to court records in Moncton. Chief Administrative Officer Jamie … Continue reading
Posted in NB Municipal Reform, Town of Sackville, Town of Tantramar
Tagged Court of King's Bench
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From sandstone extraction to wilderness park, Sackville’s Pickard Quarry now and then
Around 75 people packed the visitor’s gallery at Tantramar Town Hall on Saturday to hear about the natural beauty of Sackville’s new quarry park and to learn about the Pickard Quarry’s history of producing the high-quality red sandstone used in … Continue reading
Sackville Rotary Club raises over $1 million in Gold Mine lottery
A past president of the Sackville Rotary Club says that over the last decade, its weekly Gold Mine toonie draw has raised more than $1 million with half of that money going to winners and the other $500,000 awarded to … Continue reading
Election forum in Sackville hears how parties would pay for their campaign promises
Sackville resident Bill Carroll challenged the five candidates running in Tantramar to identify what their parties would cut to pay for their campaign promises in the provincial election on October 21st. Carroll’s question came near the mid-point of a two-hour … Continue reading
Big building could be coming to downtown Sackville
Two prominent Sackville businessmen are seeking permission to build a seven storey commercial-residential building with about 95 apartments on the corner of York Street and Ford Avenue. Developer John Lafford and Mike Wilson, CEO of the AIL Group of Companies, … Continue reading
Tantramar engineer warns Sackville’s at risk of a water shortage
Tantramar’s town engineer has revealed that Sackville is at risk of running short of treated water unless something is done about three, 27-year-old pumps inside the water treatment plant off Walker Road. “I’m not sure if people have understood that … Continue reading
Sackville town crier David Fullerton remembered for his passion, humour and community spirit
David Fullerton’s three children remembered their father last week as a man who was passionate about politics, history, teaching, music and sports. “Stick to your convictions,” former Sackville Town Councillor Merrill Fullerton quoted his father as saying during David’s funeral … Continue reading
One more step needed to complete Sackville’s $13.8 million flood control project says town engineer
Intake pipes [left] running under the dyke beside Sackville’s main sewage lagoons and the two aboiteau gates [right] that feed into the Tantramar River at low tide Tantramar Town Engineer Jon Eppell says the $3.2 million, provincially funded aboiteau designed … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Town of Sackville, Town of Tantramar
Tagged Lorne St. flood control project
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Troubles persist in Sackville fire dept. in spite of recommendations in pricey Montana report
Nearly three years after consultants submitted a $31,500 report with 20 recommendations on how to end the turmoil in the Sackville Fire Department, multiple sources tell Warktimes that morale still remains low among volunteer firefighters. The former town of Sackville … Continue reading
Posted in Town of Sackville, Town of Tantramar
Tagged Montana Consulting Group, Sackville Fire & Rescue
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MLA Megan Mitton presses Horizon to extend access to family docs and lengthen ER hours in Sackville
Memramcook-Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton opened Thursday night’s public meeting on health care by thanking senior officials from the Horizon Health Network for attending. But she also made it clear, as she spoke for many of the approximately 400 people in … Continue reading
FACT CHECK: Inaccurate, misleading, incomplete statements on Gaza war by members of Tantramar council
Tantramar Town Council once again rejected a call last week to write a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau asking Canada to press for a stop to the massacre in occupied Gaza. Warktimes reported what members of council had to say … Continue reading
