POTLOTEK: The Potlotek First Nation Band Council has made an application to the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB) for a minor amendment to their motor carrier license.

Documents filed with the UARB in August indicate Potlotek First Nation has applied to add two school buses to its specialty school bus service, along with two new bus routes from Potlotek itself.

“Our previous transportation carrier is now defunct and our community of Potlotek First Nation is taking over these bus routes,” their application file read.

The two new buses, a 2009 Blue Bird Vision and a 2012 Freightliner Chassis will dramatically increase the number of seats made available for Potlotek students in comparison under their previous transportation carrier, the application noted.

As for the additional bus routes, the first route is to East Richmond Education Centre in St. Peter’s for elementary students, while the second route is to Richmond Education Centre Academy in Louisdale for high school students.

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 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.