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Harvest Music Festival Announces New Site Layout

Harvest Music Festival will be making some changes heading into their 35th anniversary next year.

In a Facebook post the festival announced that they will be combining two of their main tents, the Blues and Mojo, into a new site for the festival that will make use of the new outdoor stage in Officers Square.     

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Explore NB Open Returning Next Summer After Successful Inaugural Event

The PGA Tour Americas is coming back to Fredericton with the announcement that the Explore NB open will return for its second year, of a now five total committed, to Mactaquac Provincial Park Golf Course as the tours only event in Atlantic Canada.

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CHSR News – December 4th, 2024 – Premier Holt Announces Dates For Nurse Retention Payments, CUPE Yet To Agree

Nurses in New Brunswick have a date on when they will receive their promised 10,000$ retention bonuses from the Holt government.

It was announced that 9,950 retention payments will be sent out on December 19th, with the hopes that they will be received by Dec.31st or shortly into the new year.

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New Brunswick youth advocate speaks on new challenge paper “From Couch To Crisis”

Child, Youth and Seniors’ Advocate Kelly Lamrock hosted and spoke at a Youth Mental Health Symposium yesterday in downtown Fredericton, addressing youth and other professionals in the field on issues written in his new challenge paper From Couch To Crisis.

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61st New Brunswick legislative session opens with rent cap, electricity rebates

The 61st New Brunswick Legislative session kicked off this week.

Highlights from the throne speech include 10,000$ retentions payments for nurses, the implementation of a 3% rent cap effective February first, the removal of the provinces carbon adjuster on the price of gas and a 10% rebate on electricity bills.

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The MRTI Agency celebrates successful first year of music facilitation

Since 2012, Emma Chevarie has operated Music Runs Through It, a website that provided Frederictonians with weekly listings of all the music events happening in the city and a brand she would eventually promote her own shows under. After 13 years on her own, local radio DJ Rob Pinnock and his partner Krista Touesnard, a

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Trio of anthropology professors publish bibliography on New Brunswick archaeology

In the course of their 15 year friendship, anthropology professors Trevor Dow, Ken Holyoke and Gabe Hrynick, have compiled a running google doc of archaeological research in the province, an endeavour that has resulted in the now published Bibliography of New Brunswick Archaeology: Works to 2022.

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CHSR News – November 15th, 2024 – NB Lung Tackling Province Radon Concerns For Lung Month

NB Lung President and CEO Melanie Langille says organizations like hers have been increasing awareness over the last 10 to 15 years, and as a part of their initiatives for this month will be drawing for two 1000$ grants from those who purchase testing kits through NB Lung by the end of November, whose results test for high levels. 

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The Fredericton Frequency – November 12th – 15th, 2024

This weeks episode features stories on the swearing on a locally made Tik Tok series making waves at Silverwave, a new non-motorized boat launch and preventative measures to radon exposure.

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CHSR News – November 12th, 2024 – Yesterday’s Weather Goes From Tik Tok To Silverwave

Yesterday’s Weather is an internet sketch series by longtime friends and collaborators Jason McIntyre and Brennan Garnett. They made over 150 videos and the response to the series from both friends and strangers was enough to convince them to develop the series into a short film.

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CHSR News – November 8th, 2024 – Premier Holt Scraps Restriction On Surgical Abortions

In just under a week in office, Premier Susan Holt has repealed the stipulation in New Brunswick’s medical services payment act that prevents coverage for surgical abortions performed outside hospitals.

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CHSR News – November 6th, 2024 – Fredericton City Budget To See Decreased Inside Tax Rates, More Frequent Transit Services

Fredericton City Council has agreed, in principle, to a 180-million dollar proposed budget during their last council-in-committee meeting before it goes for an official vote on November 25th. The city saw a 6.98% assessment base increase in property value over the last fiscal year, 2.3% due to new construction and a 4.68% market assessment increase,

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CHSR News – November 5th, 2024 – Fredericton’s Net Zero Greenhouse receives international recognition

The City of Fredericton recently received three awards at the Communities in Bloom National & International Awards in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Two of the awards went to the city’s Net Zero Greenhouse project, which launched back in March. They received the Healthier, Livable Cities Award and the Tree Management award for its efforts towards

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CHSR News – November 4th, 2024 – Susan Holt Sworn-In As New Brunswick’s First Woman Premier

New Brunswick political history was made official with the swearing in of Susan Holt as the first woman to hold the position of premier this weekend. Holt was visibly emotional during the ceremony, especially so when swearing in the five women who will work in her 19-person cabinet.  The new premier invited dozens of women

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CHSR News – October 28th, 2024 – UNB Reds fall short In final, but qualify for Nationals in Atlantic University Sport Playoffs

The University of New Brunswick Reds fell just short of completing a trifecta of upsets as they hosted the Atlantic University Sport men’s soccer playoffs this past weekend at their home field the BMO Centre. UNB knocked off the second-ranked Memorial Sea-Hawks 3-2 in their semi-final on Friday, just a day after upsetting the third-ranked

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CHSR News – October 25th, 2024 – Host University of New Brunswick Reds Upset Saint Mary’s Huskies, Advance To AUS Semi-Finals

The University of New Brunswick Reds men’s soccer team are moving on to the Atlantic University Sport semi-finals after upsetting the third-ranked Saint Mary’s University Huskies 1-0 on their home turf Thursday night. After barely squeaking into the playoffs as the sixth seed, the Reds defeated the Huskies using a strong defensive scheme and were

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CHSR News – October 24th, 2024 – Atlantic Canadian rappers tour to make communities “Better Together”

Nova Scotia’s Aquakultre (aka Lance Sampson) is joining forces with New Brunswick’s Stephen HERO (aka Matthew Elliott) and Wolf Castle (aka Tristan Grant) for a tour of some of the east coast’s best hip-hop, but with a much greater purpose than the music itself. In each tour stop, including a date at Fredericton’s The CAP

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CHSR News – October 17th, 2024 – Garrison Night Market Diverts Two Tons Of Cardboard From Landfill

Fredericton’s Garrison Night Market has become a staple during summers in the city, packing the streets on Thursday nights for locals to browse and support local vendors and artisans. In a recent report from the market and city, that foot traffic left a small environmental footprint during its 2024 season, diverting a total of two

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CHSR News – October 15th, 2024 – STU Psychology Professor The First To Receive NSERC Research Grant In School History

Last week, Dr. Doris Chow became the first professor from St. Thomas University to receive the NSERC Discovery Grant to fund her research on multi-sensory perception. The psychology professor has spent the last ten years studying how our senses play off one another and how that can be used to enhance practices in areas like

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CHSR News – October 11th, 2024 – Craft NB Celebrates 60 Years of Championing Niche

Craft NB, the longest standing provincial craft council in Canada, opened their permanent collection to the public at Fredericton’s George Fry Art Gallery last night. Celebrating their 60th anniversary, the collection is an array of works by the masters of craft in New Brunswick, with some pieces dating all the way back to the 1970s.

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