Blackville native skates with Disney ice show; Figure skating talents have taken Bonard Muck to far corners of the world

For most young boys growing up in rural Canada, winter months meant hockey. Youngsters eagerly lace up their hockey skates, grab their hockey sticks and glide onto frozen ponds and local arenas. Bonard Muck of Blackville wasn’t any different. However, he kept falling and didn’t like that so his mom and dad enlisted help in…

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Blackville sewage system to grow; $1.6M in gov’t funding will see 60 new households connected to system

Coleen Peterson waited for years to hear yesterday’s municipal water and sewage funding announcement and she couldn’t be happier about it. “I’ve been doing my laundry at laundromats,” said Peterson, who has lived on McLaggan Drive in Blackville for 17 years. Yesterday, Premier Shawn Graham travelled here, about 35 kilometres southwest of Miramichi, to announce…

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$1.6-million investment made in Blackville wastewater system improvements

BLACKVILLE (CNB) – Blackville residents will soon benefit from an extended municipal wastewater system, thanks to an investment of more than $1.6 million from the Canada-New Brunswick Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund. The announcement was made today by Premier Shawn Graham, Tobique-Mactaquac MP Mike Allen, and Blackville Mayor Glen Hollowood. “Investing in important infrastructure projects will…

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