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At least 300 people attended a town hall meeting on Thursday night at Douglas College in New Westminster to hear from a panel of speakers on the proposed coal facility at Fraser Surrey Docks.

NDP candidate Judy Darcy garnered nearly half the votes cast in New Westminster in the May 14 provincial election. Elections B.C. released final voting results this week after counting absentee ballots. Darcy received 13,026 valid votes (48.

Despite pleading from the community, the New Westminster school board cut about 60 positions in order to balance the budget. Trustees at Tuesday night's meeting combed through the options presented by secretary-treasurer Al Balanuik.

The province's auditor general for local government will be taking a close look at New Westminster's police management and budget during the first round of municipal audits to be completed next spring.

Come June, New Westminster residents will have the opportunity to dispose of any unwanted and unregistered firearms or weapons through a provincial gun amnesty program.

Each year we have tried in this column to include some local anniversary dates as reminders of how the community has changed since the city's beginning.

The New Westminster board of education meetings are about to get even livelier.

A man is alive today thanks to the quick thinking of David Cobb, skipper of the 100-year-old fishing vessel Chief Skugaid currently moored at the Fraser River Discovery Centre. Just after 5 a.m.

The New Westminster board of education meetings are about to get even livelier.

The New Westminster Police Department are asking the public to be on the look-out for two individuals who allegedly broke into Armani Exchange at Queensborough Landing on May 20. According to a department press release, at about 8 a.m.