In 1897 Bertram Bourinot began the Richmond County Record, a periodical that lasted for almost 80 years. Marshall Bourinot worked with his father and continued the paper into the 1970s.
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It remains to be seen whether the province made the right choice with new employment service providers to replace Island Employment.
Provincial spokesperson Monica MacLean told The Reporter that YMCA Cape Breton will serve...
Bullying today goes far beyond the playground, campus, or workplace; it can be on-line and quickly seen and shared by many, where the victim has no escape.
The rapid growth of smartphones, social media and the anonymity of the on-line...
I am exhausted by outrage, exhausted by it. Also bored of it and a little bit depressed by it.
Outrage greets me when I wake up in the morning and turn on the news. It’s on my car radio on...
Pierre Hudon LeNoir was the son of Thomas Mélaine Lenoir and Victoire Ursule Thériault. Pierre was a lawyer in Halifax. He married Fannie Sophie Smith and they were prominent citizens in the social circles in Halifax. Fannie lived to...
One of the greatest athletes this region has ever produced passed away late last month at the age of 71.
Long-time baseball player, teacher, coach, and volunteer Barry Marchand passed away on April 25...
The book Acadian Lives consists of interviews with Cape
Breton Acadians and was collected and edited by Ronald Kaplan with Rosie Aucoin
Grace. The book was published in 2004.
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Poirier’s favorite job was in a...
There are times when we enjoy getting out of Dodge via a day trip or a lengthier vacation.
Those excursions enable us to temporarily put the woes of life on a back burner, to...
On July 17 Premier Rankin called for an election to be held later this month.
My curious mind asks why such timing? When something as important to Nova Scotians as electing its government is...
Schools sprang up in Framboise (it was the last one-room school to close its doors in 2003), Rockdale, Grand Greve, North Framboise, Framboise Interval, Stirling, Lower Framboise, St. Esprit, West L’Ardoise, Cross Roads Brymer, Point Michaud, and...