INVERNESS COUNTY: For increased efficiencies, Green For Life (GFL) has proposed minor changes to their garbage pickup route.

West Mabou, Colindale, Rocky Ridge, Hunter’s Road, and Route 19, from the 252-intersection to the Strathlorne-Scotsville Road intersection, have shifted to Friday.

Pleasant Bay will become a Monday pickup.

GFL has also requested a move towards community boxes in areas that are on dirt roads or areas of low population.

A complete inventory of roads and impacted areas have been requested from GFL for review.

GFL staff is working on a request and approval process for the placement and upkeep of community boxes, but the decision to allow community boxes within the municipality will rest with council.

Letters will be sent to households affected by the route changes.

Drake Lowthers

Drake Lowthers has been a community journalist for The Reporter since July, 2018. His coverage of the suspicious death of Cassidy Bernard garnered him a 2018 Atlantic Journalism Award and a 2019 Better Newspaper Competition Award; while his extensive coverage of the Lionel Desmond Fatality Inquiry received a second place finish nationally in the 2020 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards for Best Feature Series. A Nova Scotia native, who has called Antigonish home for the past decade, Lowthers has a strong passion in telling people’s stories in a creative, yet thought-provoking way. He graduated from the journalism program at Holland College in 2016, where he played varsity football with the Hurricanes. His simple pleasures in life include his two children, photography, live music and the local sports scene.

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Drake Lowthers
Drake Lowthers has been a community journalist for The Reporter since July, 2018. His coverage of the suspicious death of Cassidy Bernard garnered him a 2018 Atlantic Journalism Award and a 2019 Better Newspaper Competition Award; while his extensive coverage of the Lionel Desmond Fatality Inquiry received a second place finish nationally in the 2020 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards for Best Feature Series. A Nova Scotia native, who has called Antigonish home for the past decade, Lowthers has a strong passion in telling people’s stories in a creative, yet thought-provoking way. He graduated from the journalism program at Holland College in 2016, where he played varsity football with the Hurricanes. His simple pleasures in life include his two children, photography, live music and the local sports scene.