Category: Moncton

Consultants say moving the Moncton library from the Blue Cross Centre to the former Moncton High School building could be done…but it’d be costly.

The Times and Transcript reports City Council got a report at its meeting yesterday that said moving the library would cost about $4.6 million.

MH Renaissance has proposed turning the old high school into a $22 million arts and culture centre with the library as its anchor tenant. MH representatives say their cost estimate to move the library is about half that of the consultant’s because it’s more detailed…but they are happy with the rest of the report which says the library would fit on the ground floor.

Library board chairwoman, Diane Ross, however, says the move is not practical.

A Moncton man has been found not criminally responsible for threatening to kill City Hall employees.

The Times and Transcript report 45 year old Aaron Charles McGovern underwent a psychiatric evaluation which determined mental illness played a role in February’s incident.  The case has now been turned over to the NB Review Board which will decide with 45 days whether or not McGovern is ready to be re-integrated into the community, whether any conditions should be imposed or how his illness should be treated.