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• Province implementing new French core program
  The education department will be piloting a new core French program in several Grade 4 classes in September with the hope of implementing the ...
• Doing her father proud
  Her father would have been so proud.Danaiet Teame, 22, of Charlottetown is sketchy on many details about her dad save one: he had a deep desire ...
• Ringing in 2014
  A big bash needs plenty of planning. So imagine the task of pulling together not a one-night party in someone’s home, but rather a year-long ...
• Cancer statistics paint disturbing picture for P.E.I.
  Harry McLellan does not want to become a Prince Edward Island cancer statistic. Turning his back on smoking for the past 19 months was a good way ...
• Camp Seggie tournament runs May 26
  The fifth annual Camp Seggie Fundraising Golf Tournament is set for May 26 at Glen Afton Golf Course. The format is two-person best ball. Cost is ...
• Caring calling
  Not all nurses are cut out to care for sick children. Patsy Fullerton of Cornwall has often heard others say they could never work in pediatrics. ...
• Violent trend
  Police are concerned that shoplifters across P.E.I. are increasingly prone to violent confrontation when caught in the act of stealing. RCMP Sgt. ...
• Run aimed at creating better life for brain injury...
  As he runs across Canada, Troy Adams is meeting people from all walks of life that face a similar journey.The individuals are as diverse as a ...
• Roast beef likely caused widespread illness
  Roast beef sold at a church supper in Malpeque last weekend is the likely source of widespread illness, says the province’s deputy public health ...
• Province's only homeless shelter for women closes
  For eight years, homeless women in need of shelter could turn to Grandmother's House in Charlottetown. Now any women is such dire straits must ...
• Food-borne illness from church meals suspected cause...
  The province’s health department must wait “several days’’ before receiving lab results to help determine how 160 people became ill following a ...
• Copper a hot commodity for thieves on P.E.I.
  Copper wire is being cut and stolen with alarming regularity across P.E.I., say police. RCMP Sgt. Andrew Blackadar says police have dealt with 30 ...
• Want a great place to eat? Lot 30 tops list
  Lot 30 is number one in a customer-based survey of the best restaurants in Prince Edward Island. The survey, based on the collective opinion of ...
• Key figure
  What has been a choice career for Derek Key wasn’t the successful lawyer’s first choice. At one time, Key would have loved to hammer nails for a ...
• History of Charlottetown's east end to be gathered...
  Colourful characters were never in short supply in Mike Conway's neck of the woods growing up in the east end of Charlottetown. While enjoying a ...
• Highway needs realignment for safety sake: traffic...
  Simply put, the controversial stretch of highway that weaves sharply through Churchill is just too dangerous to stay put. That, at least, is the ...
• Beaver Valley Golf Club shutting down after 16 years
  For years, Beaver Valley Golf Club has been bleeding money. The 18-hole golf course located in Martinvale was put up for sale three years ago. ...
• Smuggled smokes
  Islanders looking for a cheap, illegal smoke never have to look far.Contraband cigarettes are available on a regular basis from tip to tip in ...
• Electronics recycling program well received in P.E.I.
  Islanders are responsibly dumping quite a load of televisions, computers and other electronics. The Atlantic Canada Electronics Stewardship ...
• Charlottetown should get ECMA Awards in 2014
  Charlottetown is set to jump the queue by two years to host the ECMA Awards, Festival and Conference in 2014. Su Hutchison, the outgoing ...
• Fortune Bridge fire leaves young family starting...
  Jamie Blackett woke up around 1 a.m. Thursday to a beeping sound. He thought it was his alarm clock. Turned out to be the fire alarm. He could ...
• Needed expansion at Montague school remains sidelined
  The province’s education minister says his government doesn’t have the money for major work needed at Montague Intermediate School.Students at ...
• Holland College rounding up electronic waste
  Holland College wants your electronic trash. The college’s newly formed Green Machine, a group of students and staff promoting sustainable ...
• AVC endures waiting game for much sought-after...
  The Atlantic Veterinary College at UPEI does not come by big-ticket items easily. Take the state-of-the-art CT scanner that was the focus of much ...
• Buy a book from the prime minister
  A special fundraiser will offer Island readers a chance to own books that have been pulled off the shelves of prominent politicians. The P.E.I. ...
• CBC staff in P.E.I. spared cuts
  CBC staff in Prince Edward Island appears to have steered clear of a massive chopping block. There are no projected cuts coming to Radio Canada ...
• Group rallies opposition to highway rerouting project
  Spirited protest spared Strathgartney Provincial Park from a serious paving.Now area residents are determined to block so-called Plan B by ...
• Keepers of the House
  Gail Jenkins has been tending house — make that the House — for more than 30 years.Jenkins started in the administrative office of the Office of ...
• Local CBC staff will know more about cuts Tuesday
  CBC employees will get a better idea Tuesday of just how massive cuts to the public broadcaster will play out in Prince Edward Island."We won't ...
• Employees should not feel pinch from gas and dash:...
  Labour officials in P.E.I. are concerned about reports that some gasoline retailers may be telling employees that their pay will be deducted for ...