ANTIGONISH: The Hadhad family’s sweet success story of fleeing war-torn Syria has finally made its way to a smaller version of the big screen in Antigonish, less than a decade after Tareq Hadhad arrived to the town...
D’ESCOUSSE: Marjorie Simmins was arguably the most excited woman in D’Escousse when talking to The Reporter last Wednesday, as the local writer received a one-of-a-kind delivery just before picking up the phone.
Copies of her latest book, Year of the...
INVERNESS: A one-woman play capturing the hardships and
beauty of pioneering life is coming to the Inverness County Centre for the Arts
on Sunday, August 25. The play will be performed at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
ARICHAT: The former Anglican church here has been converted to a performance space and now has a new moniker.
Friends of St. John’s Arichat Society board chair Anne Leavitt said one of the top priorities of the group last winter...
CAPE BRETON: In one month, the 14th annual Cabot Trail Writers Festival will begin, bringing readers, writers, and storytellers together for a weekend of words, from Sept. 23 to 25.
The mainstage will host...
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...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The wait is nearly over.
After a lengthy pandemic-related dry spell, the Strait Area Theatre Society (SATS) is gearing up for its first show since 2019’s wildly successful ‘One Hundred Thousand Welcomes,”...
CREIGNISH: It was a surprise — a wonderful surprise —
that saw a well-known family in Inverness County grow by one member.
“When you do your ancestry, you never know who’s going
to pop up on...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Country music’s self-proclaimed “Canadian Kid” is heading east this winter, and Brett Kissel is already looking forward to connecting with Strait area fans.
A triple-winner at the recent Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Awards earlier this month in...
ST. PETER’S: A summer music event that has taken place in Richmond County since 2012 will not happen this year.
Kitchen Rackets, the volunteer group that hosts the St. Peter’s Music Camp on the Canal, has announced it will not...