Toronto mother and journalist Ioanna Roumeliotis wrote a heartbreaking personal essay this week, appealing to parents and educators to teach teenagers how to show a little kindness. Her son is on the autism spectrum but he's high-functioning. Yet for many kids like him, the school yard and classrooms are not a welcoming space.

In the 1800s, recipes included everything from instructions for making parmesan cheese, to 'Cures for a Person Bit by a Mad Dog.' A team of university professors and students spent three years digging through archival materials, culminating in an online database called Early Modern Maritime Recipes. Edith Snook is one of the main researchers and a professor at UNB's English Department.

The second edition of The Great Trees of New Brunswick is full of photos of majestic trees and where to find them. It was put together by David Palmer, former manager of the York, Sunbury and Charlotte County Forest Products Marketing Board, and Tracy Glynn, former forest campaigner with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick.

The Capital Project is a vast video collection of performances and interviews with musicians from across the province. On May 15, director Tim Rayne and producer Arthur Thomson revealed the official Youtube channel for the project.

Despite last year's water quality problems, Parlee Beach has received a Blue Flag certification for the season. The Blue Flag is an international eco-certification program for beaches and marinas around the world. Water programs manager Kelsey Scarfone said selected areas have met stringent criteria that show, among other things, the location is clean and accessible.

May 15, 2019 marked the passage of a bill partially decriminalizing homosexuality. But even after that, Diane Doiron of Pointe-Sapin felt forced to leave the military because she was gay.

The Atlantic Wildlife Institute near Sackville recently posted a video on social media, advising against the use of vaseline as a deterrent for squirrels. Director Pam Novak said using any type of lubricant can harm animals, including the birds.

There are two confirmed cases of the measles in the province. And the province's chief medical officer of health warns that people at a John Cleese performance in Saint John may have been exposed.

Senior climatologist David Phillips with Environment and Climate Change Canada visited the province on Tuesday for a talk titled "Weather and Climate: Not what our grandparents knew." He said it's time people accept that the weather is changing and prepare their communities for that.

The class of 1979 at Saint John's Vocational School is holding a 40th anniversary reunion. It's the first reunion of the class. And also the first time the former students get to see their composite group photo, which organizer Kim Shaw says was created because the original was never printed.