Category: News

Sears National Kids Cancer Ride Visits Perth-Andover

One of the biggest and most ambitious kid’s cancer charity groups made a stop at Hoyt’s Flowers and Gifts in Perth-Andover on September 19th. The Sears National Kids Cancer Ride is on a cross-country Canadian Tour. The riders began their 17 day fund raising odyssey on September 5th at...

Hydro-Fracking Explained at Perth-Andover Presentation

The Shale Gas Presentation that was held at the Perth-Andover Legion Hall on September 18 was well attended by concerned local citizens. The meeting lasted for nearly four hours, from 7 pm until 11 pm, but nearly everyone who attended stayed until the very end as the speakers were...

Shale Gas Presentation in Perth-Andover on September 18, 2013

Upstream Media for Citizens Awareness will be holding a presentation regarding shale gas and the impacts this industry will have on New Brunswick.  Four guest speakers well knowledgeable in this field will be joining us for discussion on the economic and environmental effects hydraulic fracturing will have on communities that aren’t located...

Want More Jobs? Choose Green Energy!

Clean, sustainable energy does more than just reduce carbon emissions and environmental damage…it brings sustainable jobs, investment opportunities and a competitive edge over the fossil fuel industry. Our province is truly richly endowed with renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, biomass and tidal currents.   With green policies...

Tobique First Nation Community Garden

Community gardens are sprouting up everywhere! In these days of ever rising food costs, and as more folks become aware of the dangers of genetically modified organisms and pesticide and herbicide drenched produce, it only makes sense to grow your own food. Growing a garden puts us back in...

Broken Promises and Broken Pipelines The Great Oil Tar Sands Bamboozle

Representatives from the TransCanada Corporation ….or perhaps TranceCanada would be more accurate… have been hosting workshops across New Brunswick to spew hopium to struggling rural communities in our province in order to promote their Energy East Pipeline project. This ambitious plan proposes to build a pipeline from the oil...

Another Hullacious Hullabaloo!

The 6th Annual Larlee Creek Hullabaloo got off to a rain drenched start on Friday afternoon but fortunately for all music lovers Ma Nature decided to smile on the festival after all…. The clouds finally parted and sun broke out creating a beautiful double rainbow just as the first...

The Georgetown Conference…Rural Redefined!

The great myth of rural Atlantic Canada is that she is a region whose best years are behind her. Her people are too old, the story goes, and too dependent on failing traditional industries and too dependent on the government. There’s definitely truth in those words…those us of who...

6th Annual Larlee Creek Hullabaloo

Perth-Andover August 16-18, 2013 This year the “Little Festival That Could” promises to be bigger and better than ever! Gathering together as a community to listen to live music has been one of mankind’s greatest loves throughout the ages. If a person could sing or play an instrument, they...

Plaster Rock SummerFest 2013

August 23, 24 & 25 Mark your calendars now! Plaster Rock 2013 SummerFest will be held on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of August and this year’s venue promises to be well worth attending. Three days of music and fun for the whole family as all age groups will...