By Stephen Cooke
Last week’s column was, to paraphrase the great Bruce Cockburn, “Wondering where the headliners are?” with regards to this summer’s Stan Rogers Folk Festival, taking place in Canso from July 25...
By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Guysborough Journal
GUYSBOROUGH: Former Boston high school principal Jack Leonard – now living in Boylston – recalls, with ringing clarity, how he never seemed...
By Stephen Cooke
Entertainment Reporter
ANTIGONISH: The curtain has gone up on the list of nominees for the 2024 Robert Merritt Awards, celebrating the past year of accomplishments in professional Nova...
INVERNESS: The Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness County’s arts hub, put out a call for feedback and the public has responded.
A total of 274 people responded to the centre’s community planning...
By Stephen Cooke
It might be hard to believe now, but there was a time when the main competition for the British Invasion by The Beatles wasn’t a group of their fellow countrymen or...
Column by Stephen Cooke
Before we get started with what’s happening this week, here’s a helpful tip for a just announced Canso Strait-area event that’s likely to sell out closer to the date, and...
By Mitchell Ferguson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Guysborough Journal
ESKASONI: At the Eskasoni Wellness Centre, Audrey Johnson recently led a workshop to share and preserve the Mi'kmaq tradition of quillwork.
By Kathy McCluskey
When first I came upon your sunny face, an inner smile started. You are one of my favourites after all. Then your yellow drew my eyes to black, and when the...
Last week's column gave a heads-up about the Cabin Fever Concert Series hosted by Steve MacIntyre at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre starting on Feb. 10, but that's not the only local event that's helping us make...
CLEVELAND: HBO, Netflix, and 20th Century Fox executives came to visit the Strait Area in the fall of 2023 and camera operator with Screen Nova Scotia, Pat Doyle, says the island’s scenery and diversity creates a backdrop...