{"id":496292,"date":"2026-02-24T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496292\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:39:08","slug":"metro-schools-closed-again-as-snow-cleanup-continues-on-northeast-avalon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496292\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Schools Closed Again as Snow Cleanup Continues on Northeast Avalon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deputy Manager of Public Works Lynnann Winsor and Mayor Danny Breen (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

Metro area schools are closed again today as the cleanup from what has been an unrelenting winter season continues on the northeast Avalon.<\/p>\n

The mayor of St. John\u2019s says city officials felt there was no need to call a State of Emergency on Monday with most municipal and provincial government offices, as well as schools \u2013 including Memorial \u2013 closed for the day.<\/p>\n

Mayor Danny Breen was responding to questions as to why a State of Emergency wasn\u2019t called despite some 55 cm of snow having fallen on the capital city on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Deputy Manager of Public Works Lynnann Winsor and Mayor Danny Breen (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

Breen told reporters yesterday that traffic levels were such that they felt snow clearing would not be significantly impeded.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were able to bring traffic around town down to a point where we can be effective with our snow clearing operations and to do it safely as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime the city is requesting permission from the federal government to dump snow in the harbour to help move snow clearing along faster.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can get more snow moved quicker\u201d says Breen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deputy Manager of Public Works Lynnann Winsor and Mayor Danny Breen (VOCM News) Metro area schools are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-496292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}