Category: Moncton

Tuition grants

The Gallant Government has unveiled another program to provide help with tuitions. This one is for families with incomes over $60,000…the cutoff for the free tuition program.

Premier Gallant says this one recognizes some families with incomes over that $60,000 threshhold, who have several children, might find it hard paying tuitions…so this is designed to help the middle-class with the government paying a percentage of the tuition based on income and number of children. They’re still working on the details.

It’s expected to cost the government upwards of $3 million a year and will apply only to publicly-funded universities and colleges.

More parking tickets being written

The number of parking tickets for overnight parking has spiked this winter.

Public Works Director Don Morehouse told the Times and Transcript it’s because they have a second bylaw officer on duty. Between December 1st and February 22nd, they wrote 1,432 tickets compared to 916 in the same period last year.

Morehouse says the additional officer has helped keep vehicles off the roads when crews are trying to clear snow. He also says the officers sometimes will go knock on a door and ask that a car be moved and residents have been compliant.