Youth
Student builds Santa’s sleigh in Blackville
If Santa ever needs a back up sleigh, he will not have to look any further than Blackville School! As the holidays grow nearer, Grade 12 student TJ Vickers built Santa’s sleigh for the Blackville Fire Department. Vickers’ sleigh is just one of many construction projects occurring in high school courses and co-ops at Blackville…
Read MoreCBC Host Terry Seguin speaks to Blackville School Journalism Class
The CBC Radio One host for Information Morning Fredericton took time out of his schedule to visit Blackville School today. Terry Seguin spoke to the Journalism 120 class. The students had quite a few questions for the CBC journalist who spoke to them about a wide range of topics from journalism ethics to the interviewing…
Read MoreBlackville School a model school in new learning
It is exciting times in the world of education and this applies to life at Blackville School as well. As a model school, Blackville is embracing the wave of the future and embracing 21st Century learning. The NB321C initiative is a three-year plan designed to guide New Brunswick education on its path to 21st Century…
Read MoreBHS Students Support Terry Fox Foundation
Blackville School students have raised $542.60 for the Terry Fox Foundation, which will help support cancer research in Canada. Students and their families raised the funds as part of a school initiative led by teacher Craig Russell. Retired principal Mr. Hal Muck lead the school in their walk of hope. Mrs. Jennifer Hambrook also was…
Read MoreBlackville School Bids Adieu to Retiring Principal Hal Muck
In a ceremony held today, Blackville School had a very special guest return for an official goodbye. Mr. Hal Muck entered the school gymnasium to a warm welcome and well-deserved standing ovation from the over 500 students that he has deeply touched over his 27 years of service as principal of Blackville School. It was a touching…
Read MoreBlackville captures Northern title
Blackville Golden Eagles AA varsity boys soccer team has reached the North/East Regional Final this weekend as the No. 1 seed in the Northern Conference. Blackville defeated Polyvalente Roland Pepin Predateurs by a score of 5-0 in Blackville on Tuesday. Goals were scored by five different players. Jordan Buggie, Kyle Morehouse, Morgan Hallihan all scored…
Read MoreFederal/provincial governments investing in multi-functional centre for Blackville
BLACKVILLE (CNB) – Residents of Blackville will soon benefit from a new multi-functional centre, thanks to a $500,000 investment from the governments of Canada and New Brunswick. Premier Shawn Graham, Miramichi MP Tilly O’Neill-Gordon, and Blackville Mayor Glen Hollowood announced today that the federal and provincial governments would each contribute $250,000 toward the project. “The…
Read MoreBlackville girl wins third place in Maritime Idol competition
Michelle Jardine, 14, of Blackville has won 3rd place and over $500 in prizes at the 2008 year-end finale of season two of Maritime Idol. The Finale was held Saturday night at the Jeanne de Valois Auditiorium on the Universite de Moncton Campus in front of a sold-out crowd. Heidi Ellis, 16, of East Bideford,…
Read MoreAlberta bound; Blackville’s Charity Walls will play her hockey in Warner, Alta. this season
She might be small in stature, but Charity Walls has the heart of a lion. Walls loves all sports, but give her a hockey stick and she is in her own heaven. This coming season, Warner, Alta. will be hockey heaven for Walls. Walls is a 17-year old Grade 11 student at Miramichi Valley High…
Read MoreFormer Olympian repays Miramichi; Blackville’s Kathy McCormack operates hockey school for girls
Classes might be out for the summer, but one teacher is going back to school this week. Blackville’s Kathy McCormack is a Grade 7 teacher in Etobicoke, Ont., but she will be donning her skates this week for her first-ever hockey school. McCormack grew up in Blackville and played her minor hockey in Blackville and…
Read MoreMiramichi students involved in unique history project, Old photos being scanned and stored on Internet provide pictoral history of school districts
When Bob Gillis hears stories of people throwing out boxes of photos from their dearly-departed relative’s attic, he cringes. And when he hears high school students talking about American or world history, he shakes his head, wondering why they’re not talking about their own Canadian or New Brunswick past. That’s why he’s so revved up…
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