Profile of Alisha Morrissey

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• New Terry Fox monument to be built
  Terry Fox’s journey started modestly in St. John’s with little attention or fanfare. The monument that marks that moment at No. 1 Water Street is ...
• Metrobus workers vote to strike
  Metrobus drivers and maintenance workers have decided to strike and are scheduled to have picket lines set up at Metrobus headquarters on ...
• Deficit looms
  This year’s budget numbers are almost tallied and it looks like St. John’s city council will have to juggle to balance a $5-million ...
• Contemporary design would fit area, proponent says
  The proponent of a Harvey Road condominium and retail building says heritage building restrictions shouldn’t be imposed on the area, which has ...
• Proposed assisted living facility gets cold shoulder
  Residents of a Kilbride neighbourhood say they’re not against seniors, rather the high-density development in their neighbourhood and the likely ...
• For now, your glass is trash
  St. John’s residents will have to continue chucking glass bottles in the trash.There are no plans to include those spaghetti sauce or jam jars in ...
• SOS sends message to developers
  A group protesting a subdivision development on Signal Hill has hardened its stance — declaring it doesn’t want any development on Murphy’s Right ...
• Mixed Signals
  The City of St. John’s says the developers trying to build a subdivision on Signal Hill don’t own the land on which they’d like to build. The ...
• Thousands at risk of being homeless
  Everybody knows the cost of housing in Newfoundland and Labrador is skyrocketing. But when a municipalities conference was told nearly 13,000 ...
• Quite a tale
  Linda Greenlaw, possibly the only female sword fisherman on the east coast, has been fishing lobster and writing novels for the past decade. But ...
• Standoff in Happy Valley-Goose Bay ends
  Police say the stand off started around 7 p.m. Monday night when officers were called about a man in his 20s who was armed with a knife and ...
• Three dead, one injured in Nain house fires
  The Nain volunteer fire department was called to the house around 7:45 p.m. where someone had reported a fire. When they arrived the fire ...
• Straddling the border
  The condo, proposed to be built on the former Sprung Greenhouse site of Castle Bridge Drive, will be divided from its parking lot by the Mount ...
• Quebec-made meats recalled
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a media release expanding a meats recall. Officials have recalled Dats Deli Europeen products ...
• Time to make a plan?
  Municipal politics - City hall will soon be asking you what you want St. John's of the future to look like. But your suggestions will then be ...
• New condo proposed
  An application to demolish the Star of the Sea Hall and replace it with a 48-unit condominium building has been submitted to the city. But the ...
• Facelift for George
  One of Canada's oldest and best-known streets might be getting a facelift if there's enough cash to get the work done. St. John's city council ...
• Former mayor gets Freedom of the City
  John Murphy hasn't been mayor in nearly a decade, but Thursday night he gave a rousing speech at city hall. Murphy, the former Water Street ...
• 'Crowning glory'
  John Murphy made a vow many years ago he would never live anywhere else but St. John's. After keeping that promise for nearly 88 years, Murphy ...
• City to debate who pays for water/sewer upgrades
  Whether you're paying a contractor up front or you see a hike in taxes down the road, St. John's residents will still be the ones to pay for the ...
• Could something be rotten in St. John's?
  Some residents of the east end of the capital city have been turning up their noses at the smell from the Robin Hood Bay landfill and dialing up ...
• It's far from free
  In the lobby of the Bay Bulls Big Pond water treatment plant sits a retro-beige boxy drinking fountain. It works like any other - turn the knob ...
• NDP opposes Signal Hill proposal
  There's more opposition to development on Signal Hill from the Opposition. NDP leader Lorraine Michael opposes development in the area and is ...
• Organic farm plan plowed under
  The otherwise pristine view of tree-lined Windsor Lake is marred up by litter-filled culverts, traffic zooming along the highway and heavy ...
• Committee endorses relaxing regulations
  The Heritage Advisory Committee is willing to give up control of a small chunk of land at the west end of Water Street, but not without ...
• OCI, FFAW reach tentative deal
  Ocean Choice International (OCI) and the Fish, Food and Allied Workers' union have reached a tentative agreement. Ben Baker, the union's chief ...
• Battery Hotel for sale; development potential cited
  An international real estate agency is marketing one of this city's best-known hotels as a "premier development site." The Colliers ...
• 'I will never be the same'
  Justice - Krista says she spent more time imprisoned in her own home than the man who tried to kill her will spend in a jail cell. John Ford, ...
• Lofty idea
  Two executives, an architect and a developer went to city hall last week looking for advice on how to get their Water Street building project ...
• Residents offer thoughts on Elizabeth Avenue...
  The residents of the Elizabeth Avenue area of St. John's say they're already loyal Pipers shoppers - but they'd be happier neighbours if traffic ...