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• Cancer fraudster gets four years
  GEORGETOWN – A man who spun tales about a pot of gold and left nothing but a trail of woe was sentenced to four years in a federal penitentiary ...
• HST 'regressive, ridiculous, and even fascist,'...
  MONTAGUE – Calling it regressive, ridiculous, and even fascist the first meeting of the Progressive Conservative campaign to stop the harmonized ...
• Grade 7 class takes in more than nature during...
  MONTAGUE — It's not easy getting Zachary O'Connor to pose for a photograph. While his classmates gathered in front of Montague Intermediate for a ...
• Space issue not major setback for all students
  MONTAGUE — Danielle Williams doesn't mind it one bit. Brian Osborne actually likes the exercise. And Patricia Crant enjoys getting outside to ...
• Montague to replace wellness centre ice-maker
  MONTAGUE — A conspiracy of blame has been swirling around eastern P.E.I.’s largest town over the breakdown at the local hockey rink and why there ...
• Rural health cuts spark Souris protest meeting
  SOURIS — The line in the sand being drawn over health service cutbacks in rural P.E.I. sparked a major protest meeting here Thursday night with ...
• Georgetown turns 100
  GEORGETOWN - When the oldest citizen of the town arrived for the big birthday celebration here Wednesday, she was greeted at the front door of ...
• Montague taxpayers on hook for $100,000 problem
  MONTAGUE — The Cavendish Farms Wellness Centre isn’t doing so well.And unless the town of Montague coughs up more than $100,000 to fix a major ...
• HST will make P.E.I. a better place, Ghiz tells...
  GEORGETOWN — Premier Robert Ghiz says he'll learn whether Islanders agree with his introduction of the harmonized sales tax (HST) at the next ...
• Amalgamation key to survival, municipalities told
  GEORGETOWN — Amalgamation should proceed across every nook and cranny in P.E.I. to keep the province from falling behind, says the president of ...
• Spring planting underway
  MONTAGUE — It may just be the nice weather, but the manager of the P.E.I. Federation of Agriculture says there’s sense of optimism swirling in ...
• A chilling distress call
  The tragedy of the Titanic and its unsinkable connection to the world is a tale steeped in morality, says one of P.E.I.’s most respected ...
• Island farmer using Internet to reinvent family farm
  HUNTER RIVER — A P.E.I. farmer who has taken to the Internet to sell his organic products is hoping his community business model will help ...
• New alliance seeks rural restoration
  FORTUNE - There was no cry for separation, but there was plenty of advocates for restoration here last night as over 150 people jammed a local ...
• Montague Grade 8 students win national contest
  MONTAGUE — It was billed as a provincial announcement to the students who were asked to assemble in the gymnasium here Wednesday afternoon. Some ...
• Ocean Choice plant up for sale
  SOURIS — The Ocean Choice plant, once home to hundreds of area workers before it was closed last spring, is up for sale. And while the timing may ...
• Federal civil servants want to stay on P.E.I.
  MONTAGUE — Kandice Jenkins wants to retire here. She lives only a few minutes outside the town, shops locally and takes her children to the ...
• Georgetown holds tax rate
  GEORGETOWN — Any economic pain from the province’s three per cent cutback in municipal funding was avoided here as the Kings County capital ...
• Energy costs school board more than $5 million
  CARDIGAN — The Eastern School District is making the most of every operating dollar but has no official plan in place to curb an energy addiction ...
• Minister claims “modernization” needed in...
  Federal Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield says Canada needs to find ways to make the Atlantic fishery more profitable, even if means changing ...
• Montague drops taxes with savings from RCMP cut
  MONTAGUE — There was no applause, but eastern P.E.I.’s largest town slashed 10 cents off the residential tax rate here Monday night while ...
• P.E.I. fishermen protest corporate 'free-for-all'
  P.E.I. fishermen are sending a proposal to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans condemning a “Walmart”-type plan that would end the independent ...
• Reds Corner voted best family restaurant on P.E.I.
  MONTAGUE — It was just another ordinary day at Red’s Corner, but all that good home cooking, large play area for kids, and splendid hospitality ...
• P.E.I. lobster from waves to websites
  P.E.I. lobster fishers are hoping to run a pilot project through the Internet this year designed to eke out the best price for their catch from ...
• Barrier-free housing facility for disabled opens in...
  MONTAGUE — It may be designed for the disabled, but a barrier-free housing unit officially opened here this week would be sought out as a living ...
• Man pleads guilty to 10 fraud charges
  GEORGETOWN - In a bizarre case with more tentacles than an octopus, a 28-year-old man who faked cancer after his plot to cash in on a lucrative ...
• Public rally set to save EI claims centre
  A public rally to retain P.E.I.’s only claims processing centre will be held here Saturday morning at the Down East Mall.“We can’t let this ...
• Farmers want beef plant funding continued
  Island farmers want the province to maintain funding to the Atlantic Beef Products plant, conduct a red tape review to reduce duplication and ...
• Man charged for faking cancer for donations
  MONTAGUE – A 28 year old man who allegedly faked cancer so he could bilk as much as $40,000 from numerous people – including his own family – has ...
• Montague slashes two RCMP officers from its payroll
  MONTAGUE - The town of Montague saved itself about $100,000 here last night following a vote to drop two officers from the town payroll and sign ...