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• Masks are once again required at hospitals and health care facilities until at least the end of March

  This is due to a rise in respiratory illnesses across the province and applies to visitors, support persons, outpatients, emergency department patients, and health-care workers.

• Corner Brook is gearing up for winter snow clearing operations

  Although the city’s budget for 2025 is $41.9 million there are no amounts highlighted for snowclearing. 

• Corner Brook looks to fill the role of Assessment Review Commissioner

  The successful candidate would hear residential and commercial property appeals, render judgments, and other duties. 

• Shutdown at Corner Brook Pulp and Paper begins, Kruger officials anxious to start $700 million retrofit

  Last week, parent company Kruger announced the shutdown due to critically low water levels at the Grand Lake reservoir, which is used to generate electricity at Deer Lake Power to source newsprint production.

• Corner Brook moving to cashless, pay-by-plate parking systems, no more coin operated meters

  Todd Flynn is the  city’s Director of Protective Services. He says there are 150 parking meters in the downtown area and over the past year, many of them have been destroyed in an attempt to get the money out.