The Central Voice

Check out the lights from your area and around Atlantic Canada below! - 123RF photo

Newfoundland and Labrador 2018 Christmas Lights map

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Alfred Fitzpatrick represents harvesters from the Burin Peninsula in crab fishing areas 10 and 11 on the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union’s inshore council.

N.L. crab fishers taken aback by DFO's latest details on crab data

Susan Stuckless in her red Team Canada jersey displays her gold medal and the team trophy near the ocean in Bermuda. Stuckless says since the ocean was so close to the rink, players would often jump into the water to cool off after games.

From street hockey in Herring Neck to a gold medal in Bermuda

Romaine Lettuce — 123RF Stock Photo

Sobeys stores halt sale of romaine lettuce

Santa on duty at the Labrador Mall.

Here we go, ho, ho, ho!

Marine forecast

MARINE FORECAST: Tuesday Dec. 18, 2018

Management and staff of the Galley Restaurant are hosting a complimentary turkey dinner on Christmas Day. Pictured are staff members Nick Bursey, Jessica Durdle, Jeanette Strong (manager), Lily Vivian and Terry Chatman.

Clarenville restaurant offering free turkey dinner on Christmas Day

From left, Major Anthony LeDrew of the Clarenville Salvation Army, Brianna Kendall, salon owner Sue Lynn Weeks, Billie Stapleton, Bradley Bailey, Vanessa Penney and Shona James.

Community Heroes: Hair Studio Salon and Spa donates to food bank

The Clarenville Scouts are busy elves this holiday season, with several projects in the works before Christmas, including donating to Bellies and Bottoms and mummering with the CREST bus.

Clarenville Scouts busy as elves during the holiday season

Gander MFRC 28th Angel Tree Campaign gave MFRC members the opportunity to make donations for families throughout the Gander area. From left, Danielle St-Pierre, Janis Crocker, Nancy Critchley, Peggy Blake, Wanda Kearley, Kellie Synyard and Kinza Slater.

Gander Military Family Resource Centre brings holiday comfort to people near and afar

Updated 23 minutes ago

Kinsmen Club for Bridgeport, Moreton’s Harbour and Valley Pond president Winston Dearing is working with Memorial University associate professor Dr. Cynthia Coles on a potential community water supply for the area. Because of the high concentration of water and low concentration of arsenic, the artesian well at the Kinsmen Club is being looked at as the likely location for the community well.

Doctors and Kinsmen Club seeking solutions for elevated arsenic levels in some New World Island wells

Updated Dec 14, 2018 at 1:20 p.m.

Drone enthusiast Geoffery Prouse captured this aerial shot the demolition.

Baie Verte loses ‘centerpiece’ of town

Updated Dec 14, 2018 at 4:06 p.m.

Long lines at Motor Vehicle Registration in Mount Pearl have been the subject of complaints for years. Now people can book their appointments online.

Added security, streamlined service coming to Newfoundland and Labrador vehicle registration in 2019

Published Dec 14, 2018 at 12:45 p.m.

News

Bull Arm fabrication site during Hebron construction.

Consultants named to conduct Sunnyside feasibility study on Bull Arm boundary changes

Updated 1 hour ago

A man measures the level of blood alcohol by Breathalyzer in this 123rf.com photo

POLL: Will the new stricter laws help reduce drunk driving?

Updated 8 hours ago

RCMP.

Rocky Harbour in mourning after death of man walking on highway

Updated 6 hours ago

Sandy Wiseman Yates holds up the Davids Tea advent calendar that she recently purchased online. Day 1 of the calendar contained more than tea, as Wiseman Yates found a bug, believed to be a cockroach, when she poured a packet of candy cane crush into a steeper on Saturday.

Corner Brook woman finds bug in packet of Davids Tea

Updated 7 hours ago

Sports

Concussion awareness continued to grow in hockey and all sports.

Central N.L. minor hockey adopts zero tolerance rule for dressing room roughing

Published 4 hours ago

Doug Moores stands next to an old photo of the Conception Bay Cee Bees during the 1967 Herder Memorial Championship.

Harbour Grace's Doug Moores talks 60 years of CeeBees

Published Dec 16, 2018 at 8:30 a.m.

Halifax Mooseheads goaltender Alexis Gravel makes a pad save on Charlottetown Islanders forward William Sirman early in the first period Saturday at at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax. (ERIC WYNNE/Chronicle Herald)

Moose head into Christmas break on a high

Updated a day ago

Aaron Flood

Corner Brook’s Aaron Flood focused on giving Canada Games athletes a great experience in Red Deer

Published Dec 14, 2018 at 7:50 p.m.

Business

Corner Brook Regional High student Emily Vincent recently got a taste of the skilled trades during the Skills Canada Skills Work for Women Conference at the College of the North Atlantic in Corner Brook on May 11.

Grand Falls-Windsor wastewater treatment upgrade requires women’s employment plan

Published Dec 10, 2018 at 4:57 p.m.

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Payday loan laws to be enacted in Newfoundland and Labrador in new year

Published Dec 12, 2018 at 9:23 p.m.

A grower that’s been using Kryptonite for his marijuana plants says he found it “way, way better than what he’d tried with his own mix and fertilizer.”

Cannabis plants now available for purchase online in Newfoundland and Labrador

Published Dec 11, 2018 at 5:56 p.m.

With colleagues along for the ride, Newfoundland and Labrador Senator Fabian Manning (at wheel) drives a search and rescue Zodiac during the Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans fact-finding study of search and rescue operations across the country. At left is an unidentified search and rescue personnel, while behind Manning is retired Senator Elizabeth Hubley and the late Senator Tobias C. Enverga Jr. (right).

GUEST COLUMN: Private sector partnerships can fill gaps in Canada’s search and rescue operations

Published Dec 11, 2018 at 6 a.m.

Living

Kimmie Long at her first War Amps CHAMP Seminar in 2012 (left) and today (right).

Summerville family reflects on War Amps 100th anniversary

Updated 1 hour ago

Designer Melanie Jacqueline from St John’s had a pop-up studio sale at Islaview place in Deer Lake on Saturday.

Pop-up studio sale held at Islaview Place in Deer Lake on Saturday

Published a day ago

Mikaela Wilson of Corner Brook says the city’s Wonderful Fine Market has been an essential part of building her Natura Soap Company business.

Craft market exposure helps local businesses like Natura Soap Company of Corner Brook build a customer base

Updated a day ago

While Wi-Fi cameras can be easier to install, the pros say they come with tradeoffs that suffer in comparison to a full-fledged security camera system that’s wired via ethernet cables to a dedicated hard drive or network video recorder. - Getty Images/iStockphoto

Tethered safety: Wi-Fi cameras come with tradeoffs

Updated Dec 14, 2018 at 12:05 p.m.

Opinion

The back-up ambulance for the shared service between Green Bay Health Centre and Baie Verte Peninsula Health Centre can often be seen parked somewhere along the Baie Verte highway in case it is needed.

CLEARLY STATED: An eventual call from an outport, maybe

Updated a day ago

Secret Santa is the theme — and title — for the newest Christmas song from Sherman Downey.

NICHOLAS MERCER: Laying down a Christmas track

Updated Dec 14, 2018 at 12:50 a.m.

Thom Barker

'The Big Bang' revisited is kind of creepy

Published Dec 13, 2018 at 11:23 a.m.

Geoff Meeker

Meeker on Muskrat

Updated a day ago

Community

Community calendar

OUT & ABOUT: what's going on in central this week

Published Dec 10, 2018 at 3:39 p.m.

Marystown Coun. Loretta Lewis and youth mental health advocate Jimmy Bonnell are pictured in front of the green-lit tree outside the town hall in Marystown.

Green Christmas light campaign promoting mental health on the Burin Peninsula

Published a day ago

James Snow of The Cod Jigger in Grand Falls-Windsor is serving up free Christmas dinner this year.

Grand Falls-Windsor business offering free Christmas Day dinner

Updated a day ago

IOC in the Christmas spirit in Labrador

Updated a day ago

Recent Stories

Santa on duty at the Labrador Mall.

Here we go, ho, ho, ho!

Marine forecast

MARINE FORECAST: Tuesday Dec. 18, 2018

Management and staff of the Galley Restaurant are hosting a complimentary turkey dinner on Christmas Day. Pictured are staff members Nick Bursey, Jessica Durdle, Jeanette Strong (manager), Lily Vivian and Terry Chatman.

Clarenville restaurant offering free turkey dinner on Christmas Day

From left, Major Anthony LeDrew of the Clarenville Salvation Army, Brianna Kendall, salon owner Sue Lynn Weeks, Billie Stapleton, Bradley Bailey, Vanessa Penney and Shona James.

Community Heroes: Hair Studio Salon and Spa donates to food bank

The Clarenville Scouts are busy elves this holiday season, with several projects in the works before Christmas, including donating to Bellies and Bottoms and mummering with the CREST bus.

Clarenville Scouts busy as elves during the holiday season

Kimmie Long at her first War Amps CHAMP Seminar in 2012 (left) and today (right).

Summerville family reflects on War Amps 100th anniversary

Bull Arm fabrication site during Hebron construction.

Consultants named to conduct Sunnyside feasibility study on Bull Arm boundary changes

Coun. Amanda Freake reads the Town of Deer Lake’s 2019 budget during a council meeting at the town office on Monday night.

Deer Lake’s mill rate won’t change in 2019

Premier Dwight Ball speaks to reporters Tuesday outside the House of Assembly.

Writ to drop in Topsail-Paradise byelection

A first glance, Derrick DeZeeuw thought there were insects on the leaves of his rose bush. No bugs here Derrick . . .

WEATHER U: Snowflake science

A great leader addresses the current resilience level of the organization or the people on their team. - 123RF

Resilience: A necessary quality for solid leadership

Philip Capstick, Medford, N.S.

CINDY'S SNAPSHOT: Philip Capstick, Medford, N.S.