Profile of Kevin Higgins

Biography

Kevin Higgins is the editor at The Beacon.

All articles of Kevin Higgins

• Coffee with…Darren (Tank) Bursey
  What is your full name, and were you named after anyone? Darren Frederick Bursey. Yes. Actually, it’s after the actor Darren McGavin, who is ...
• Coffee with…Garry White
  What is your full name, and were you named after anyone? Garry Claude White. Not really, but my middle name, Claude, was actually after one of my ...
• Coffee with…Dan Deschamps
  What is your full name, and were you named after anyone? Daniel Deschamps, and I was not named after anyone. Where and when were you born? I was ...
• 101 secrets confessed
  In her second book, What If They Knew – Secrets Of An Impressive Woman, Ms. Payne writes about the bad and the ugly of being a woman, ...
• Long time coming
  However, to sit across the table and look into the eyes of the province’s only federal cabinet minister has been a long awaited meeting — one the ...
• Liberals tour Glovertown Shipyard
  Dwight Ball, who is the MHA for the District of Humber Valley and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador — the Official ...
• Coffee With…Alison Maloney
  What is your full name, and were you named after anyone? Alison Jenelle Maloney, and I’m not named after anyone. Where were you born? ...
• Parrott ready to roll
  Mr. Parrott was welcomed to council chambers for council’s regular meeting after winning Sept. 25’s municipal byelection by a 41-vote margin over ...
• Rallying the troops
  The change of mind, according to Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor MP Scott Simms, came after much deliberation on the part of the MP for the ...
• Goodbye summer…hello Harper
  “There’s a lot of pent-up frustration from (things that happened) during the summer, so, it’s good to be back to be able to address these ...
• Parrott elected to Gander council
  Mr. Parrott garnered 648 out of the 2,154 votes cast to win the seat left vacant when former Councillor Nicole Lanning resigned in august. Fellow ...
• THUD
  The Gander-based company was selected as the host site when Research and Development Corporation CEO Glenn Janes, Minister Responsible for RDC ...
• Hear Harry Hibbs live
  Also like so many expatriates of Canada’s most easterly province, he had the urge to return, and had planned on doing so for a whirlwind tour ...
• New campaign
  However, heading into the team’s opening set of games this weekend in Corner Brook, he is quite optimistic there will be a lot of different ...
• Healthy harvest
  For a long time, up until the 1960s, the soil of the Eastport Peninsula provided a source of income, as well as nutrition, for many families in ...
• Targa safety
  However, Gander’s Janet Brake has taken it upon herself to try and reduce the risk to the spectators of a unique North American motorsport that ...
• First deployment
  A nine-year volunteer with the Canadian Red Cross, Ms. Peach answered the call when it came in early June that citizens in Thunder Bay, Ont., ...
• Moving along
  The news from the runway last week was the largest construction project at Gander International Airport in more than three decades was ...
• Building boom or bomb?
  Or in the case of Gander, maybe he and many others are already here. Building statistics for the first six months of 2012 show a much different ...
• Coffee With...Robert Stockley
  What is your full name, and were you named after anyone? Robert James Stockley. This was after my uncle Robert and my grandfather James. Where ...
• Healthy infusion
  In the JPMRHC lobby, Minister Sullivan announced funding to the tune of $2.3 million for the two local facilities to improve the provision of ...
• Successful formula
  “There’s not much new this year…we’re packed full of activities…and we don’t really feel the need to make changes because what we have is ...
• Bench boss
  Players such as Jacques Allard, J.C. Garneau, Cy Hoskins, Mike Kelly, Pat Shallow, and Leo Kane were the hockey players he looked up to and ...
• One step closer
  Matt Flynn, Colton Collins, Shane Barnes and Brett Glover were notified last week they were selected to the 20-player roster of Team Newfoundland ...
• Dover man’s death being investigated
  RCMP report 60-year-old Douglas Keats was found by a couple who were on a family outing around 7:25 p.m. on July 1, and came upon an overturned ...
• Moving on
  However, Gander’s Josh Fitzgerald didn’t dwell on the fact for long — he still has some hefty hockey goals in his near future. “Sure I was ...
• First major air evacuation
  King Amanullah of Afghanistan had traveled to Europe and when he returned home he instigated a series of Western-style ...
• In a time of need
  One of those treatments is chemotherapy, a process that involves the delivery intravenously of a number of drugs used to kill cancer cells. The ...
• Even dozen
  When the final list was released earlier this month, an even dozen from the central region were selected in three different age groups to ...
• Cod, cod stay away
  He’s been on the sea ever since, and in those 25 years he’s seen a lot change in the fishing industry — some for the better and ...