Joan Pearce of the community group Friends of Rockwood Park is urging Saint John councillors to rescind a February motion to declare a portion of the 890-hectare park as surplus, allowing for it to be sold for housing development.
A 'soft cost' grant program will fund 15 per cent or up to $25,000 of pre-construction costs to help non-profits get affordable housing projects off the ground, Saint John council decides Monday night.
Just over a week after plans for a French private school in Saint John were abandoned because of construction costs, the project leaders announced a similar school will open in Halifax in the fall.
A private French school set to open its doors in Saint John's Market Square in September is no longer going ahead. Lycee International announced it is abandoning the project which would have been part of the Don Bosco network of schools due to total construction costs surpassing initial estimates by 50 per cent.
Saint John's proposed budget for next year earmarks $550,000 for the city's first roundabout, but despite much talk about introducing the feature to the local road system, a site still hasn't been chosen.