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<p>It all started with a knock, a letter, and two cable guys. Nick Scott never imagined that within a few days he&#8217;d be calling the police, and barricading the front door. Last week, two Rogers representatives showed up unannounced, at Scott&#8217;s house. They said they were running a signal level upgrade in the area. Scott&#8217;s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton, Saint John and Moncton are the three urban centers of New Brunswick. They dictate the economic success of the province. New Brunswick has just over 750,000 people, yet these three cities have embraced similar strategies of economic growth, by fighting and attempting to out-do each other. Fredericton has the benefits of a consistent, reliable [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When the Acadian Lines buses stop running on November 30th, many students may be left wondering how they&#8217;ll get home for the holidays. STU students with parents out of the province, or even a couple hours away, often use the inter-city bus company to travel back and forth for school breaks and long weekends. Nathalie [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Graham Avenue residents say the recent couch fires are a tradition, but disagree on whether it should change. The street is best known by Frederictonians for burnt couches and the sounds of fire engines. For years, people have put their furniture on the side of the road and set it on fire, leaving behind the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A musician with long blue hair jumps up and down while headbanging. The lead singer screams into the microphone. This was the first year for Battle of the Bands at St. Thomas University’s Welcome Week. Although most Welcome Week activities are geared towards first-year students, a lot of older students came out to support their [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It&#8217;s been years in the making, but off-campus students finally have a home away from home. Justin Brown, the off-campus representative, recently announced that off-campus students will soon have a lounge in James Dunn Hall. It will be where the Native students&#8217; lounge used to be, across from the help desk. They moved into a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; Meryn Steeves expects this Welcome Week will be one to remember.  The 2012 Welcome Week chair made quite a few changes to this year&#8217;s events, changes she hopes will enhance the new students&#8217; experience. The first big change will be on Saturday at the cheer off, where STU&#8217;s new mascot will be unveiled.  STU [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Acadian Lines buses will be running again in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, within two weeks.  92 per cent of the union members voted on Sunday, to accept Acadian Lines&#8217; most recent offer. Acadian Lines and the Amalgamated Transit Union signed a tentative agreement last week, after a five-month-long strike.  They spent four days [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After all the heated debates, emotions, meetings, reports and recommendations, the multi-year effort to move to associate membership status in the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations has failed. Faces became red and voices became louder than normal at times in back-and-forth exchanges, but the debate remained civil and focused on substance, unlike those of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dawn Russell just wants to get things done. There’s no question she wants change, something the university undoubtedly needs after a polarizing strike during the 2007-08 school year. “When I came to St. Thomas, I understood there was a concern about climate and transparency and decision-making.” But she knows she can’t rush important decisions. She [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The expected budget-day bomb was a dud. Student leaders feared cuts to university funding and tuition increases before the 2012-13 New Brunswick budget was released last week. But the budget gave almost no indication of government plans. The only thing confirmed is that universities will be able to increase tuition for Canadian students by $175 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Since 1975, Larry Batt has been reading each and every St. Thomas University graduate’s name as they walk across the stage toward the rest of his or her life. “Each student is her own person, and deserves the attention, even if it is for 10 seconds. I get the name right, I get the hometown [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For Barry Craig, “tension” is too strong a word to describe the relationship between St. Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick. He has yet to see a serious disagreement between the two universities since he became vice-president academic of STU four years ago. “The tension between any two Canadian provinces picked at random [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This year’s April 6th Day may be more like a kids’ birthday party than the alcohol-fuelled bashes of the past. The annual all-day party will feature bingo, video games and an evening barbecue, a toned-down celebration that happens to fall on Good Friday. “We’re trying to get people to see Harrington the way we see [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’ll be a few more months before skates hit the ice at the new $29.5-million Grant-Harvey Centre. The new arena, soon to be home to both St. Thomas University hockey teams, is now expected to be complete in July, according to Greg Cook, Fredericton’s executive director of special capital projects. In November, city officials said [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The vote to increase fees St. Thomas University students pay for STUSU membership has been delayed – again. STU students’ union vice-president administration Mary-Dan Johnston introduced the idea of raising the full- and part-time students’ union fee by three per cent two weeks ago. It would, if approved, increase the full-time student STUSU fee to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A St. Thomas University education student has started a program that’s helping kids share their creative writing. Write Across the Middle is a story-trading website that gets middle school students to write whatever they please and have it read by others their same age. “It’s an outlet where students submit any work, no restrictions, French [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The snow is melting, grass is re-appearing and gardeners have come out of their five-month coma. But it’s not stereotypical farmers with huge plots of land, tractors and stylin’ overalls, but rather city dwellers, students, and entire communities working together towards “clean eating” and a healthy lifestyle. Community and landless gardens allow a window of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>They seemed inseparable at first: co-dependent, almost like brothers. One, much younger than the other, held different values and beliefs. And it was their differences that allowed them to work together – different sizes and specialties, clashing colours and sports teams. “It’s like two kids in a bed and every now and again your parents [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Katrina Barclay didn’t get a lot of sleep this past weekend. She was up all night Saturday looking at pictures of her hometown under water. To her, the images are unimaginable, and came as a shock when she logged on to her Facebook page late Friday after not being online all day long. Landmarks from [&hellip;]</p>