Michael Cummings is the president of Saint John Pride and a founding member of Pride NB.

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New Pride NB/Fierte NB plans for Pride week during pandemic

Rebecca Halliday is part of a group of parents in Moncton looking at the idea of forming a homeschooling group for the coming school year. She's the former director of the Riverbend Community School, and she runs a mobile tutoring service.

Parents preparing to homeschool with extras

Gill Cormier and Liz Malatestinic are co-founders of The Lupine Market, a new eco-friendly market starting up in Hampton. The first market gets underway tonight in the town square.

Hampton night market opens

Gary Hall is the director of curriculum and instruction for the Anglophone South School district. Microsoft Teams will be the main, online teaching platform in schools across New Brunswick. Hall has been helping teachers learn how to use it even before the pandemic.

Learning curve for teachers, students and parents on Microsoft Teams

Matthew Martin is the founder and president of the Saint John Black Lives Matter Movement. At least three agenda items were discussed, including the idea of creating a permanent Black history heritage room or building.

Saint John Black Lives Matter Movement meets with premier

Parents Jana Comeau and Heather Tait are worried about the governments plans for return-to-school in the fall. Heather Tait is the mother of two high school students. Jana Comeau has a daughter in high school, and a daughter in middle school. Education minister Dominic Cardy responds.

Concerns about return-to-school plans A, B and C for students

Saint John council passed a motion to call for acts of racism to be punishable by law. Mayor Don Darling brought the motion to council after a presentation by UNB bio ethics professor Timothy Christie.

Saint John urges cities, province, federal government to make racial discrimination a crime

In the past four months, the soup kitchen has seen demand up 25 per cent. Staff have had to reconfigure how they serve their clients. Evelyn McNulty is the executive director of Romero House Soup Kitchen.

Romero House serves 30,000 meals, bottles of water during COVID-19

After a decade with ACAP Saint John, Graeme Stewart-Robertson has a new job with the World Wildlife Fund, as the International Coordinator for People Protecting Landscapes and Seascapes.

ACAP steward to coordinate land and sea protection for Word Wildlife Fund

Jeff Ewart is a senior operations specialist with CGS in Saint John.The company is slowly transitioning 120 staff back to the office.

Computer Generated Solutions finds back-to-office work solutions

MLA and attorney general Andrea Anderson-Mason explains how this new act is meant to clarify the law regarding enduring powers of attorney and health care directives.

Enduring Powers of Attorney Act came into effect July 1

Music columnist Jeff Liberty profiles Saint John musician Corey Bonneive and his project Doctor, Mother, Father.

Take Liberty: Corey Bonneive

David Hickey is a councillor for Ward 3 in Saint John

Creating temporary pedestrian streets in the uptown

Mark Hughes is one of the founders of a group that wants to help the city come up with a plan for its ice rinks.

Saving a Saint John rink

Carmen and Lara Messerlian returned home from the U.S. and are counting the hours until they can hug their father. Carmen is an epidemiologist at Harvard University. Lara works in public relations in New York City and had COVID-19 this spring.

Daughters camp out in backyard for 2 weeks to support palliative father

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