What Odds at City Hall: 28 June 2022
A house on Coronation St has been ordered demolished, a Victorian Gothic home is getting a new wall, and the Pedestrian Mall opens this week.
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Elizabeth Whitten is a St. John’s-based journalist and The Independent’s St. John’s municipal politics reporter. She’s previously worked for allNewfoundlandLabrador and Downhome Magazine, and her work has been published by CBC, The Overcast, and the Toronto Star. She’s currently writing a book about how Dr. Cluny Macpherson invented the gas mask in World War One.
A house on Coronation St has been ordered demolished, a Victorian Gothic home is getting a new wall, and the Pedestrian Mall opens this week.
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A Southside heritage building looking to get spruced up, WerkLiv carries on, and Hudson & Rex need a road closure to film its 5th season.