Improv U: more than just making it up as you go along
— 2 days agoEvery summer, students from across the country gather together on the campus of Bishop’s University to immerse themselves, for one week, in the world of improvised theatre through a program called Improv U. “Imagine you have a play but there are no…
Police investigate Sherbrooke’s fourth murder this year
Record Staff – Two men aged 19 and 49 were arrested in a residence located at the corner of King Street West and Quebec, in connection…
Police concerned about safety of missing teen
Record Staff – Sherbrooke Police are urgently looking for a 15-year old Sherbrooke girl who has been missing since Tuesday. Éléona…
Lucien-Blanchard beach closed due to poor water quality
Record Staff – The Lucien-Blanchard Park beach in the Mont-Bellevue borough has had to be closed again, the City of Sherbrooke…
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Experimental approach to Emerald Ash Borer has an Eastern Townships root
— 2 days agoAn experimental measure to control the Emerald Ash Borer that is currently being employed at several sites across Quebec and Ontario has an important link to the Eastern Townships. According to Dr. Robert Lavallée, an entomologist…
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Kinnear’s Mills 10th annual Celtic Festival
— 2 days agoBy Matthew McCully – “People come from far and wide,” said James Allen, one of the organizers of the Kinnear’s Mills Celtic Festival. “Now we’re kind of on the circuit,” he explained, for those regularly…
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‘Partage Box’ dispenses free hygiene products for homeless people
— 3 days agoBy Matthew McCully – The Salvation Army in Sherbrooke is now home to a sort of ‘anti’ vending machine called the Partage Box, the second in the world and first of its kind in North America. Rather than sell goods,…
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Family medicine “the greatest failure” of the Liberal party – Legault
— 3 days agoFrancois Legault is planning to get every person in the Eastern Townships a family doctor by 2022. Speaking alongside four of his local candidates in front of the CHUS in Fleurimont on Wednesday morning, the Coalition Avenir…
Read moreBibeau shuffled off of Francophonie file
— 3 days agoCompton-Stanstead MP and Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau was one of the ministers impacted by Wednesday’s Liberal cabinet shuffle. Formerly also the Minister responsible for the Francophonie, Bibeau…
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School tax bill hits like Christmas in July
— 3 days agoBy Matthew McCully – Property owners who pay school taxes to the Eastern Townships School Board are enjoying a dramatic decrease in their bills this year, thanks to Bill 166, passed in the National Assembly in March.…
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