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• Town of Deer Lake is taking comments on the proposed development of row houses on Trailer Court Road

  It would include two 7-unit and one 6-unit rowhouse on about 1.1 hectares of vacant land. Zoning would have to change from Commercial General and Residential Mini-Home to Residential High Density, and the maximum permitted  size of a rowhouse would increase from four to eight units.

• Atlantic Canada Sustainable Agriculture Summit at Grenfell Campus wrapped up Tuesday with 90 people registered p

  Topics covered climate change, crop nutrition and health, irrigation, artificial intelligence, and farm viability.

• Corner Brook Pawd helping seniors care for their dogs is looking for clients

  This group of volunteers can help with dog walking, trips to the vet, temporary care, or rehoming if that's what the senior wants.

• One tractor trailer driver is dead and another is seriously injured after a collision in central early yesterday

  The Trans-Canada Highway was closed for several hours and the cause of the collision is under investigation.

• Fisherman missing in the Bay of Islands was found dead early yesterday morning

  Bay of Islands Volunteer Search and Rescue were called in by the RNC just after 9 o’clock Monday night after reports of an overturned boat on Gillam’s Pond near Summerside.