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'It's not a sprint, it's a marathon,' says society director

The Literacy New Westminster Task Group is hosting a Money Skills workshop series to help New Westminster residents improve their financial literacy. Attendees will learn about banking, budgeting, credit and consumerism. The workshop series is free.

Last week Our Past brought you the story of CFXC, an early radio station in New Westminster, that began broadcasting in late 1923. It aired some Christmas material, and formally opened on New Year's Eve.

New Westminster school district's superintendent presented his annual report on student achievement in the district, which highlighted that writing is solid, reading is decent, but math at some schools has declined in grades 4 and 7.

Divisions on the board of education were evident at Tuesday's committee meeting, where Voice New Westminster trustees continued their ongoing call for more financial information and the immediate intervention of the auditor general to help the distri

If you missed a good party on Dec. 31, there's another new year event coming up that you can check out to have some fun.

Personal accolades were likely little solace to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins at the World Junior Hockey championships in Ufa, Russia. The No.

The Municipal Integrated Emergency Response Team, which handled emergency situations in Port Moody, Abbotsford, Delta and New Westminster, disbanded on Jan.

Jacob Chiu's last-minute goal gave the New Westminster Royals a come-from-behind 5-4 win over the Oceanside Generals in the bronze-medal final at the Alberni Valley Tier 2/3 bantam hockey tournament on Sunday.

Kingsley Bailey's wife Debbie didn't appreciate the timing of the text he received at 5 a.m. Sunday morning. "Who the heck is texting you at this time?" Debbie asked Burnaby's best-known ticket broker.