Need Some Help With Your Heating Bill?

Winter heating bills can be a major stress if you're getting by on a small income and the provincial government is offering a helping hand if you make less than $28,000.


Families can apply for a $100 subsidy to offset the costs but be warned, you should get your name in soon: 50,000 applications were received last year, and the program has benefitted over 95,000 families since first starting in 2010. The applications are available on Janaury 3.

You can apply online, in person at Service NB, or by phone toll-free at 1-800-669-7070.

Alumni Spartans Skate Again For Fundraiser

The lock-out is still on -- but here in St. Stephen -- it's almost game time!


Members of the Spartan Hockey Alumni, who are players from the past 30 years, are coming together this Sunday for a fundraising hockey game.

One of the original coaches from 1982, Mike Bronson tells Tide News when he coached they were all like one big family. He says, "Noone missed any time unless they were absolutely sick. It really worked out well. Looking back on the high school and doing the extra-curricular thing, coaching and helping start that team was one of the highlights of my career."

The "Spartan Hockey Legends of the Past" game will give proceeds to help our local kids on the Spartan 2012-13 team.

The game will be at the Border Arena, Sunday, at 4:25pm. Tickets are $3.

Grand Manan Fisherman Lost At Sea

It's a sad day on Grand Manan Island as one of their own is lost at sea.


Local fishing boats, along with helicopters and rescue vessels searching the entire night in the Bay of Fundy for a local lobster fisherman who fell overboard.

East Coast Navy Captain Tyrone Grande tells Tide News the call came in to the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax yesterday around 5:45pm.

He says at 7am this morning ( December 21st, 2012 ), there was still no sign of the man and the search was downsized due to weather and consideration to how long the man had been lost at sea.

Grande says the search has now been taken over by the RCMP as a missing persons case.