Local News from Tuesday, February 10th, 2026

Trevor Freeborn is with 211 NL and says their number one call revolves around food with 40 percent of callers looking for things like Meals on Wheels, food banks, and community pantries and this is followed by a need for housing support.

Public Works Chair Councillor Doonna Wheeler says it’s been a struggle for the past couple of months with double the amount of snow nearly daily making it hard to keep up with snow clearing major routes within 16-24 hours. 

The 32-year-old man was taken to hospital, treated and released.

Over the following days, the airline will operate empty flights southbound to pick up approximately 3,000 customers already at destination and return them home.

Keith Cormier says news reports from last year highlighted the deaths of hundreds of thousands of farmed salmon on the south coast and the documentary, “Rock, Plastics, Salmon” speaks of the effects the farmed salmon industry.  

Meanwhile, from Pasadena to Summerside, between Jan. 31st and Feb.7th, eight vehicles were seized for operating without insurance, and three vehicles were seized from drivers operating without a license.

Those who have booked flights to Cuba should contact their point of purchase. 

On Bayfm with Lenny Bennoit this morning, Mayor Linda Chaisson says the goal was to lower contamination on recyclable materials and numbers are up.

Lynn Howse says 867 new items were searched, there were   152 new visitors to the Waste Wizard App, and 23 new searches added to the list.