MLA Hosting Meeting Tonight On Flooding In St. George

Wild weather is here to stay it would seem.

One Liberal MLA wants to make sure homes and businesses in his riding are prepared and protected as much as they can be.

Flash flooding in Charlotte County last month was a scary reminder of the devastation water brought to the area in 2010.

Residents of St. George, Lake Utopia, Boney River, and everyone in between are welcome to attend a meeting on the topic tonight.

Charlotte the Isles MLA Rick Doucet is hosting the meeting tonight at 7pm at Magaguadavic Place.

Logan Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter

A guilty plea from a Saint John man charged in connection with a brutal beating at an uptown rooming house that led to a 66 year-old's death.

35 year-old Nicholas Logan pleading guilty to manslaughter after Duncan MacDonald died in hospital on April 10 from injuries he sustained from the March 16 incident on the corner of Duke and Prince William.

MacDonald had a broken neck, punctured lung and a severe brain injury. The official cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. 

After the incident, Logan told police he had felt "a strong desire to wipe out everyone in the building." Logan has been undergoing mental health assessments at a hospital in Restigouche, where he's been remanded until his next court appearance on August 30: a disposition hearing before sentencing. 

Judge Henrik Tonning calling cases like this one "very complicated."

Malloch Looking For Awnswers To Flooding Issues

With the clean up pretty much completed in the wake of another flash flood in the St Stephen area - attention is turning to what steps are needed to better deal with changing weather patterns.
Charlotte - Campobello M-L-A Curtis Malloch tells Tide News it's time for serious soul searching by trying to determine what to look at - where to look at it - what can we do different as we move ahead with infrastructure.
Malloch says he will continue to push the issue with his government colleagues in Fredericton - he says he also wants to make sure the best support is available to emergency responders and volunteers when dealing with natural disasters.