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Angela Ferguson
Angela Ferguson grew up an army brat with her mom, dad and two sisters.
She is a Canadian-Italian who was born in Lahr, Germany. Her father, Sgt. James Ferguson, was stationed to Lahr around the same time her mom, Mara Barcellino, moved there from Calabria, Italy. They met in Germany and were married. Her older sister Natasha was born in Lahr too, and the youngest, Desiree, was born in Fredericton.
Every four to five years they moved from one location in New Brunswick to another and back to Germany. They lived in Lincoln, Oromocto, Gagetown, Rothesay, Saint John, Quispamsis and Woodstock, as well as Lahr.
Angela graduated high school in Woodstock and took sciences for a year at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Realizing eight years was a long time to go to school when future desires were so uncertain, Angela worked a full-time job for a year before taking Journalism at Woodstock’s New Brunswick Community College.
She was always a writer, even in elementary school. Teachers would constantly comment on report cards saying things like, “I want a copy of Angela’s first book.”
After graduating with a Journalism Diploma, she accepted a position as a Staff Journalist at the Observer in Hartland before moving to Halifax to work at Maritime Broadcasting Systems (MBS).
While working a full-time position as Traffic Co-ordinator and Assistant Supervisor at MBS, Angela returned to school and earned her Creative Writing Diploma from the Institute of Children’s Literature in Connecticut, USA.
She returned to Woodstock in 2005 where she became a Staff Journalist at the Bugle-Observer. Within two years, Angela was promoted to Assistant Editor.
After receiving a call from Astral Media, she decided to try something new.
Angela was nervous because radio news was a distant memory of college. But she works hard every day to fulfill a personal commitment to give listeners unbiased, concise, accurate and timely news from the local area, from across the province, in the Atlantic region, from across Canada and from all over the world.
A commitment she plans to keep as long as she is News Director for K93 FM in Grand Falls.