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Mayor Éric Gagnon says the province is responsible to remediate more than a dozen sites with derelict or dilapidated structures in the rural areas the Village of Kedgwick annexed in 2023.
Mayor Éric Gagnon says province responsible to clear over a dozen sites
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Burt Paulin, municipal councilor of Ward 5 in Kedgwick, said the debris of a house that burned down in Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Restigouche last May is attracting vermin and the neighbours have complained to the municipality. (Submitted by Burt Paulin)
The mayor of Kedgwick says the provincial government is taking too long to clean up unsightly and dangerous properties in the northern municipality.
Éric Gagnon said the province is responsible to remediate more than a dozen sites with derelict or dilapidated structures in the rural areas of the Village of Kedgwick annexed in 2023.
He pointed to the former church in Whites Brook on Route 17 that was destroyed in a fire last October. Now, all that remains is charred wood, metal and concrete blocks.
Gagnon said it was up to the provincial government and not the municipality to demolish and clean the land of the former church many years ago,
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