Straw Dogs Redux

Four of five N.B. men declared guilty in riot on Grand Manan island

Kevin Bissett, Canadian Press

Published: Saturday, November 18, 2006

ST. ANDREWS, N.B. -- Four of the five men from New Brunswick's Grand Manan island who said they acted in self defence when they torched the house of a suspected drug dealer have been declared guilty on an assortment of weapons and arson charges. Other Grand Mananer news (probably) All in a night's work Coast Guard helps two in sailboat that filled with water after being hit by high waves near Fire Island By Susana Enriquez (susana.enriquez@newsday.com) April 14, 2007 "It's what many rescuers say after plucking people from trouble: We were just doing our job. That's what Coast Guard Petty Officer Clayton Stout said Friday, one day after he and four of his colleagues set out from the Fire Island station and rescued two men amid 10-foot waves and stiff winds with help from counterparts in Cape Cod and the Suffolk Police Marine Bureau. "It's always a big deal," said Stout, a 4-year veteran. "It's never the same situation - different people, different boat, different weather." The sailboat, Outrageous, was in the Atlantic Ocean about three miles south of Fire Island's Watch Hill when it was hit by a "rogue wave," causing it to tip and take on water, said Petty Officer Dan Bender, a Coast Guard spokesman"...more My mother, Adelaide Urquhart, knows these surnames from Grand Manan Island, where she thinks they're from, in the Bay of Fundy not far from the Roosevelt's beloved Campobello Island, New Brunswick. The fishing is almost gone and the "natives" are trying to work with tourists, whale watching, Audubon's once abundant bird sightings, dulse picking, etc. Author Willa Cather once had a house in Whale Cove where she may have written some of her novels. Her female friend was a famous woman composer from Boston, Massachusetts, USA.