Wednesday on Tantramar Report:

Meg Cunningham talks with director Vallie Stearns and actor Morgan Grant about their production of A Banishments of Poets, which opens Thursday afternoon in Bill Johnstone Memorial Park, as part of the Festival by the Marsh.

Erica Butler checks in with pharmacist Charles Beaver about how the vaccination rollout in Sackville is going. Things have slowed down, but the Corner Drug Store is still taking appointments and hosting a Pfizer walk-in clinic this Thursday.

Also in local news:

The Sackville hospital emergency room was closed Tuesday night due to a shortage of available nurses. The ER shut down at 7 p.m. and reopened Wednesday morning at 8 a.m.

Goya’s Pizza says that since the notice of a potential public exposure at the restaurant on Aug. 1, all their employees have been tested, and all results were negative.

Unknown individuals dumped a black tar-like substance near the covered bridge on the High Marsh Road. Town engineer Dwayne Acton told council on Monday that after being informed by the Department of Environment, public works staff removed the material and disposed of it at a Moncton facility.

The town of Sackville has released some of the results of its 2021 residents survey: 323 people responded to the survey, and of those, 74 per cent said they were satisfied with the quality of life in Sackville. Only 41 per cent of respondents said they were satisfied with the town’s leadership and budget processes. The town is now asking for residents to complete a follow-up survey by Aug. 14.