7+ hour, 53+ min ago   (347+ words) The modest building closed its doors in 2011 after 137 years as a rural school The new owner of a defunct Fredericton-area school says the purchase was entirely spontaneous — and hasn’t got a clue what to do with it. Pen was put…...

16+ hour, 59+ min ago   (409+ words) Organization now has 95 youth on the waiting list for volunteer mentors As Moncton continues to grow in population, so does the need for volunteers with organizations like Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Joline Cyr, executive director of Big Brothers/Big Sisters…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (770+ words) Three rural schools without food service providers lined up: minister Education Minister Claire Johnson is appealing for the public’s help in finding food service providers for three rural schools who haven’t been able to launch her government’s hot lunch program…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (531+ words) Young adults educated in N.B. are far more likely to stay or return during their professional careers than those educated elsewhere As we move past the Labour Day weekend, schools across the province, from kindergarten to university, are starting to come…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1043+ words) Holt says Liberals have only had 'one fiscal year' to turn system around The recently released data from the province shows that reading scores in grades four and six both dropped, while there was some minor progress in Grade 9. Grades…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (440+ words) The word means “teach me” in Jeremy Dutcher’s native tongue, and speaking at St. Thomas University’s Kinsella Auditorium on Tuesday, it was the one thing he advised Wolastoqiyik youth ask of their elders — immediately followed by please and thank you…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (201+ words) Youth do not stop using technology when the bell rings at 3 p.m.; they simply use it elsewhere. In some ways, this policy reflects the same logic that once shaped abstinence approaches to sex education: restricting access to solve the problem. Experience…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (392+ words) Letter: Phone ban diminishes students to 'robots' Telegraph-Journal Phone ban diminishes students to ‘robots’ I am a high school student in Fredericton. I am writing this letter to express my strong opposition to the province’s new ban on cellphones in…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (610+ words) Let us use them on lunch break, because we need them for our work, says Grade 10 pupil A Grade 10 student from Fredericton says the province should modify its impending ban on cellphones, and let students use them during the lunch…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (1155+ words) Holt government rolls out new literacy course requirements for future teachers As the new school year gets underway, Anglophone East superintendent Randolph MacLean is welcoming both new students and new teachers into district schools. In the last four years alone,…...