Superintendent Sits Comfortably In His New Position

Almost two weeks in his new position the Superintendent for District Ten is finding his comfort zone. Derek O' Brien tells tide news he has been busy over the past couple of weeks. He says he is looking forward to the big learning curve ahead of him and hopes to visit all the schools in the district in the new year.

O' Brien was the principal at St Stephen Elementary for the past 10 years.

NB Power Forum in Moncton

Moncton provided the back-drop for Labour groups and political parties who got together yesterday for a summit to discuss the possible sale of NB Power to Hydro Quebec. Tom Mann is one of the spokespeople for the groups which is based on the original Face Book group opposed to the proposed sale. He tells Tide News, the savings and benefits in the proposal is in-balanced for every rate payer in the Province.


Mann adds with no mandate or public discussion....this proposal should never have seen the light of day.

Gas Prices

Drivers in St Stephen who use self serve regular are getting a bit of a break this morning after the weekly setting with just slight changes in the maximum prices that can be charged. The maximum price for self serve regular is 100.4 a litre, which is a drop of two cents from last week. Most gas stations here at home are now selling it for 98.3. The maximum price for diesel rose from 104.9 to 105.8 a litre.


As of early this morning, there had been no change with diesel still at 103.2. There has been a slight increase in the maximum price of furnace oil as it went from 88.2 to 88.4 a litre.

Storm Clean Up

The cleanup is well underway in St Stephen after yesterday's storm which didn't turn out to be as bad as many people feared. Jean March with Enviroment Canada tells Tide news St Stephen recieved 10 cm of snow last night. NB power is  reporting no outages after the high winds last evening


The roads are slushy this morning and drivers are being reminded to drive carefully heading to work.