Superintendent Moving On

(District Ten Superintendent Keith Pierce ,File Photo,)

Charlotte County 's school Superintendent is moving on to further his career in the Education Department. Keith Pierce tells Tide news he has worked for District Ten over the past four years and the new position will carry a term of at least a couple of years or more.
Pierce says the position is with the Improvement Services Branch and he will help over-see the school review and improvement process. He will be working out of Fredericton but will serve St John, Rothesay and Charlotte County districts .

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(Point Lepreau, File Photo)


The province's energy minister says delays in the refurbishment of a nuclear generating station aren't good for Atomic Energy of Canada when it comes to future projects. Jack Keir says the lack of answers from Ottawa on Point Lepreau doesn't help A-E-C-L's bid to build a new advanced Candu reactor. Premier Shawn Graham says he's grown frustrated by the situation. He's written Prime Minister Stephen Harper, pressing for answers. N-B Power says the 1.4-(b)-billion-dollar project is at least seven months behind schedule.The utility says it will cost the province an extra 1 (m) million dollars to buy replacement power for each day the project lags. No one is willing to forecast a completion date.

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RCMP are looking for help from the public in a search for a missing 13-year-old girl. Emily Deveau of Dieppe was reported missing late Wednesday night by her mother. She was seen with a friend at the Champlain Place mall Wednesday evening and again yesterday around Moncton High. Despite speaking with friends of the girl, police still don't know where she is staying. They do believe she remains in the Moncton area. The girl is five-foot-two and 140 pounds with dark hair, and she wears glasses.

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Flying in a U-S governor to attend a conference in Saint John this week on the provincial government's dime isn't sitting well with the Opposition. The provincial government plane flew to Rhode Island on Monday to pick up the state governor, transporting him and other staff to Saint John. then returning them back to Rhode Island on Wednesday.
Premier Shawn Graham's office says the two round trips cost 98-hundred-dollars. That doesn't fly with Bruce Fitch. The Tory finance critic says the government isn't walking the talk when it comes to making choices in a tough economic climate. But Graham is defending the gesture, saying the governor wouldn't have been able to attend the conference otherwise due to scheduling difficulties.