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Opening one new civic facility – and planning for a new one – will be priorities for the parks, culture and recreation department in 2014.

Columbia Street will soon be trying a swag lighting display on for size.

Planning is underway to fill a vacancy in New Westminster city hall created by a promotion in 2013. Bev Grieve was promoted to the city’s development services director position in October 2013, after having served as planning director for six years.

The president of the Queen’s Park Residents’ Association took to the airwaves to chat about the “off the charts” increase of truck traffic seen in New Westminster since tolls were introduced on the new Port Mann Bridge.

Rubble remaining at the site of a devastating fire on Columbia Street will soon be hauled away.

Larco and Sapperton Green are sure to keep the city’s planning staff on the go in 2014. Bev Grieve, the city’s manager of development services, said the two projects are priorities for her department this year. “Those are the two big ones,” she said.

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Charges could soon be laid against the driver of the vehicle that struck Gemma Snowball nearly 10 months ago. Since the fatal collision, New Westminster police remained tight-lipped about the investigation – until now.

Most single-family homeowners in New Westminster who receive their 2014 assessment notices in the coming days will likely notice little change or a slightly lower value in their property over the previous year, but condo and twonhouse owners could se