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• Corner Brook will roll out a new garbage collection system in the new year meaning new carts for residents

  Kirsten Mercer is the city’s Sustainability Development Coordinator and says staff are busy assembling around 10,000 of these wheeled carts which will be picked up by using an arm on the garbage truck.

• Applications to vote by mail in the upcoming provincial election are now being accepted

  Any resident who is 18 years of age or older by Election Day, which is October 14th, can apply to vote by mail by going to register.elections.gov.nl.ca

• The season has started at Corner Brook Centre Bowl

  Supervisor and Treasurer Ashley Payne says days of having too many bowlers and not enough lanes are done, and this has led to a change in time slots for groups.

• Port Saunders RCMP looks for missing man, 55-year-old Sheldon Wells

  Wells is bald with green eyes, weighs about 140lbs, and is 5’6” tall.

• New gravel quarry in Bay St. George gets government approval

  Farrell’s Excavating Ltd. wants to develop and operate a 6.92-hectare sand and gravel quarry approximately 2.1 kilometres from the community of Barachois Brook.