EDMUNDSTON, N.B. There s a sense of cautious optimism tonight in the city of Edmundston, which is as of Wednesday, is no longer under lockdown. Cases of COVID-19 in the region now appear to be under control with hospital admissions down and no signs of new community transmission. After more than two weeks, the tap room at Les Brasseurs de Petit-Sault is now back open and the beer and conversation is once again flowing. We opened the tap room at noon today, so we had some of our regulars that we don t see typically at noon just come in and drop by and say hello, said general manager Andre Leger.
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Maritime Bus will be able to keep operating its two routes to northern New Brunswick after all.
The province has announced $720,000 in funding to help the company cover its pandemic-related losses.
It comes just two days before the company was set to cut service between Fredericton and Edmundston and between Moncton and Campbellton.
“We took the time to work with municipal stakeholders on this priority file and to do our due diligence to ensure this service continues to be available during the pandemic,” Local Government Minister Daniel Allain said in a news release.
A one-time funding allocation of $360,000 under the public transit category of the Safe Restart Agreement will be matched by funds from the Regional Development Corporation for a total of $720,000.