It's a keepsake that gives you coffee and supports your favourite team.
You can get a reloadable coffee card at your local Timmy's with the Sea Dogs logo on it.
Sea Dogs President Wayne Long tells CHSJ News it's something they always thought about doing.
He says you always see the cards with a winter scene or the Tim Horton's camps and they thought it would be a great idea to have a Sea Dogs logo on one of those cards.
You can get your own Sea Dogs Tim's card at locations between Sussex and St. Stephen.
A new telemarketing scam is making the rounds. The Saint John Police Force Fraud Section warns people are receiving calls stating that they have won anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 bonus Air Miles.
They are then asked to provide personal information like a credit card number. Air Miles has debunked the scam as a fake saying they never use automated messages.
You can visit the Canadian Antifraud Centre's website at here to learn more about what steps you should take to avoid becoming a victim of telemarketingand automated telephone schemes.
We need to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to flooding. That from MLA for Charlotte-The Isles, Rick Doucet who isn't happy his idea to establish a committee on flood damage control was shot down by Premier David Alward.
He tells CHSJ News the government's Regional Emergency Management Coordinators network only deals with flooding after-the-fact. He says we have to get into a proactive stage and get out in front of these things because they're going to be happening more and more frequently.
Doucet says we're losing an opportunity to open up some dialogue on a topic that's impacting all New Brunswickers.
You might want to be extra careful about locking your doors if you live in the Quispamsis area.
There have been two daytime break-ins and thefts already this week on Hardwood Crescent and on the Quispamsis Road. Both happened when the homeowners weren't at home, and numerous items were taken.
The Rothesay Regional Police Force is asking the public to report any suspicious people or activities in their neighbourhood. Call the dispatch center at (506) 847-6300 or 911 if a crime is in progress.
A Nova Scotia franchise has opened a brand new restaurant in uptown Saint John.
The newly-opened Ryan Duffy's in Market Square is the third location of the steakhouse and seafood chain in the Maritimes, with locations already in Truro and Halifax
The restaurant is named after a Halifax speakeasy from the prohibition era and specializes in grilled menu items, table side-prepared caesar salads and drinks according to manager partner Matt Costain, who will be running the restaurant with owner Damian Byrne.
Ryan Duffy's will be announcing its grand opening in the coming weeks.
The New Brunswick Roadbuilders Association is not discouraged by the response of the Transportation Minister to spending more money on roads around the province. Claude Williams warns money is tight.
Tom McGinn is the Association's Executive-Director. He says the idea is to spend a bit today, then avoid being faced with a more serious problem that will require more money down the line.
McGinn also warns many of the people who work on the roads have gone out west to the point where there's a labour shortage.
The patient who's suffering from a potentially highly contagious type of tuberculosis and remains hospitalized at the Dr. Georges Dumont Hospital is a business faculty student at the University of Moncton who was on hand for the first week of classes.
Medical authorities indicate the student’s condition is getting better and are optimistic the risk of infection is low.
They're also confident only those people who had close contact with the affected student are at risk of infection.
The university is establishing a list of those who could have potentially been in contact with the student, including other students, professors and all other staff members.
Over the next few days, health professionals will be present in the classes in which the affected student would have been present during the contamination period in order to answer questions that may arise.
It's a crime that shocked the community at a place you might not expect to see violence.
Cochran's Country Market in Rothesay was robbed in the early morning hours of July 16th and two employees were tied up.
Arrests were made by Rothesay Regional Police in early August.
Stephen Corey Richard and Blake Andrew Smith pleading guilty in court and will be sentenced October 4th. Both are in their late 20's.
47 year old Keith Oliver Dixon also pleading guilty at an earlier court appearance and will be sentenced next month as well.
Thunder Bay's Outpost bar is the first in Canada to offer pregnancy tests in their bathroom dispensers.
The purpose is to help prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
The initiative at Lakehead University starts today and they hope to have more bars get on board and offer pregnancy tests.
In hopes of seeing charges filed, a Maine mom releasing documents from the police investigation into her daughter's 2011 disappearance.
Trista Reynolds posting the information on her website regarding the disappearance of 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds.
The move is an effort to get charges laid against Ayla's father Justin DiPietro and Reynolds believes there is enough evidence for a successful prosecution.
The document states the toddler's blood was found throughout DiPietro's house and vehicle, including a plastic tote box found in his basement containing bloody sheets.
Reynolds says police do not want to arrest DiPietro without Ayla's remains.
The toddler went missing in 2011 from her father's home in Waterville, Maine.
This wasn't a very smart move by a young man from Richibucto wanted on some traffic violations.
Corporal Graham Milner tells CHSJ News police caught a car speeding near Exit 198 going toward Sussex. When the driver saw police, he took off and took the Sussex exit. When they came to the intersection of Picadilly Road and Route 111, he peeled onto a side street, got out of the car and ran.
Police detained the two other people who were in car and brought in dogs to try and locate him. It's thought he got into another car or hitchhiked further, as the trail dropped off after a short distance.
Milner says they know who the driver is and his address. He's now going to be facing both his tickets and a criminal charge of failing to stop for police.
Retired city employees want a chance to sit in on the meetings of the pension board--because, as Common Councillor Susan Fullerton put it, "if you're not at the table, you're on the menu."
Mayor Mel Norton says as he understands it, the retirees can sit in on the meetings but they can't participate.
The composition of the pension board was determined some time ago, so in his view it is a bit of a moot point to meet now and explain it again.
Wyatt has a home. He's the cat who was shot by an arrow near Exmouth and Richmond streets last month.
After undergoing complex surgery it was discovered the former street cat has feline leukemia meaning he can't be around other cats.
Empty-nester Cheryl Estey tells CHSJ News she has room for him.
She contacted the SPCA who referred her to the Fundy Animal Hospital who housed Wyatt after his surgery and because he had to be isolated.
She was able to bring him home on Friday.
Wyatt joins a household that also includes a turtle named Franklin.
Six men between the ages of 29-50 are wanted by the Rothesay Regional Police for a variety of offences including fraud, break and enter, and driving while suspended. There are $500 rewards for information leading to the arrest of two of them.
The names and offences of the people wanted on warrants have been posted on the RRPD's website in an effort to get help from the public tracking them down. To check it out, click here
City police are looking for a car prowler going through cars on the lower west side as recently as early this morning.
Sgt. Jay Henderson tells CHSJ News there have been a couple of foot chases with a man they think is responsible but he managed to get away.
The man has been going through vehicles in the area of Duke Street West and also on Winslow, Guilford and Ludlow streets.
The province's new five-year health care plan is more concerned with dollars and cents than delivering services to patients.
That from the President of the Council of Hospital Unions, Norma Robinson. Robinson tells CHSJ News they're fully expecting to see more layoffs, but what they're unsure of is when and where the job cuts will be happening---which she says is very frustrating.
The New Brunswick Nurses Union says they're concerned about how little detail was shared about how the plan will be carried out, and how it affects the role of registered nurses.
It's full steam ahead for a revamped organisation that will represent businesses throughout the entire region.
The President of the Saint John Board of Trade Eric Poirier tells CHSJ News there's now a tentative date for a merger with the K-V Chamber of Commerce and the West Side Business Association. He says they've received overwhelmingly positive feedback and they're hoping to create the new organization in the spring.
25% of the K-V members also belong to the Saint John Board of Trade.
Moncton RCMP looking for your help as they try to find a missing 24 year old man.
Romeo Cloutier was reported missing on the 13th and his vehicle was found in Sainte-Marie de Kent the same day.
The search for Cloutier was expanded recently in that area with help from Tri-County Ground Search and Rescue but it didn't provide any clues as to where he is.
Romeo Cloutier is described as 6 feet tall with brown eyes and tatoos on his arms and neck.
When he was reported missing, he weighed about 145 pounds and his head was shaved.
If you can help, contact Codiac Regional RCMP at 506-857-2400 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Kenyan security forces are still battling al-Shabab extremists in an upscale Nairobi mall for a fourth day in what they claim is a final push to rescue the last few hostages in a siege that has left at least 62 people dead.
Despite Kenyan government assurances of success on Twitter, the Associated Press is reporting another explosion and more gunfire could be heard coming from the mall.
A woman who spent time in Saint John and has lived in Nairobi for the past two years, Joanne Ball Burgess has told the Toronto Star about being trapped inside the mall on Saturday when the attack got underway.
She speaks of being trapped in a bathroom for 3 and a half hours then hiding in a closet as she made her way to freedom through a fire exit.
A 50 year old man from Saint John will be in court charged with stealing a thousand dollars from a vehicle in the Kennebecasis Valley.
The owner of the vehicle saw what was happening. The accused is facing another charge as well.
He was locked up after violating a court order not to be in Kings County.
