Some of the biggest names in figure skating were in Moncton last weekend for the 2012 World figure skating championships. Reporter Samantha Magee was at the Coliseum Complex on Saturday.
Falling snow and slippery roads led to several car crashes around New Brunswick on Friday. The most serious was a pile up on Route 1, between the Rothesay Avenue overpass and Fox Farm Road, in Saint John around 10 a.m. Friday. District fire chief Eric Garland said the pile up began with a car sliding [...]
While students at Moncton High School studied for fall exams, and middle-aged men had root canals at a dentist’s office across the street, half-naked women danced beneath the glittering lights of 151 Mountain Rd. The building at that address has had many names over the past decade or so: Bikini Beach, Night Magic, Mint, and most [...]
Mr. Claus took the night off from his duties at the North Pole on Saturday, and graced metro Moncton with his jolly presence. Over 150,000 smiling faces gathered to see Santa and his reindeer at the Majesta Greater Moncton Santa Claus Parade. Upbeat Christmas music was heard along with the laughter of children as the parade came down [...]
RCMP responded to a false notice placed on a vehicle in a Moncton parking lot Sept. 30. The notice, which displayed the RCMP logo and markings, warned the vehicle owner that the vehicle fails to meet the standard set by the New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Act. The owner was given four days to respond. RCMP [...]
New Brunswick’s ‘bedroom communities’, more commonly known as the suburbs, are in for a wake-up call.
Danica Brine has been drawing most of her life. In middle school she’d draw on just about anything, math homework, notebooks and sometimes even her desk. It was also around the same time did she concoct her first idea for a comic book. She later abandoned her project and focused on animation while attending the [...]
Luke Rogerson sits in his dim basement, balled up in an armchair. He’s explaining last night, when the sound guy stomped on the smoke machine half-way through the show because he’d forgotten about it earlier. The make-up smoke plumed up onto the stage, then out into the 200-strong mass of bodies pulsing to unforgiving drums [...]
To avoid completely abandoning the Beacon over Christmas break, classmate Tammy Murray came up with an awesome idea. To keep the site lively, she suggested the “staff” share our favorite Christmas memories and traditions. After pondering what my favorite traditions are, I decided I want to share something I would like to be able to [...]
Watch it here: From an Acadian settlement to a shopping mecca, the city of Moncton has seen its share of changes. Moncton native Jason Murray takes an insightful look into one of the province’s oldest cities through a series of historical and current photographs chronicling the city’s diverse cultural history. Transcript
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