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Memo sent to health-care professionals in province says symptoms are similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseasePublic Health is closely monitoring a cluster of more than 40 New Brunswick patients with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal brain disease. In an internal memo obtained by Radio-Canada, sent on March 5 by the office of the chief medical officer of health to the New Brunswick Medical Society and to associations of doctors and nurses, the department notes the existence of a cluster of 42 cases of a progressive neurological syndrome of unknown origin. A first case was diagnosed in...

Rangers issue a handful of citations over the weekend for alleged trespassing. The government shutdown closed the national park Oct. 1. For months, Julie and Eugene Gillies of South Portland planned to celebrate their wedding anniversary in Bar Harbor. They weren’t about to let a political fight in Congress get in the way of their plans to see Acadia National Park, which they visited on their honeymoon 34 years ago. Riding on small motor scooters beneath a bright blue sky Sunday morning, the couple went around the barricades and past the sign declaring the park closed and joined what they...

Another shot from the talented Danny Burk: I wondered how Monument Cove looked to other photographers: Find the monument:

Sifting through historyLong-lost Acadian settlement reveals itself layer by layer in new excavation By TOM MCCOAG Amherst Bureau | 6:08 AM Gilbert Losier, of Dieppe, N.B., holds up a metal object he unearthed while participating in the dig at Beaubassin. A shard of glass and a piece of a pipe, two of the artifacts dug from the earth at the site of what was once an Acadian village.Amateur archeologists work pits and trenches that dot the field where the Acadian village of Beaubassin once stood. They were participating in a public dig sponsored by Parks Canada."Archeologist Clarice Valotaire leans into...