ANTIGONISH: Officials with the Nova Scotia Health
Authority (NSHA) say five family medicine and four specialist positions have
been filled in the Eastern Zone.
During the authority’s board of directors meeting in
Antigonish last Thursday, Tim Guest,...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Two community public transportation
services had to temporarily suspended their services until further notice.
Strait Area Transit (SAT) serving Inverness County,
Richmond County and the Town of Port Hawkesbury, along with Antigonish
Community Transit (ACT)...
HALIFAX: Mi’kmaw poet Rita Joe was honoured on Heritage Day.
Joe’s written work started gaining interest from the publishing world in the mid-1970s, according to a press release issued by the Office of Lieutenant...
OTTAWA: An Isle Madame native gained national acclaim for her role as an educator.
Denise Gotell, originally from Arichat, was recently named one of Canada’s Outstanding Principals for her work at St. Thomas More School in Ottawa.
She was one of...
POTLOTEK: After being recognized for his 25 years of serving as Potlotek First Nation’s Fire Chief, Wayne Johnson says serving his community is just part of who he is.
Johnson started his service back...
HALIFAX: Public hearings probing April 2020’s mass shooting in rural Nova Scotia are putting a spotlight on major missteps by the RCMP that might have lessened the tragedy or averted it altogether.
Two major...
ANTIGONISH: A local librarian said residents want community hubs like libraries where they can learn, get together, and celebrate.
Eric Stackhouse, chief librarian with the Pictou Antigonish Regional Library, offered a talk entitled “Public Libraries, Community, and the Future” at...
CAPE GEORGE: After a two-year break, Camp Rankin will be open this summer, and reaching an important milestone.
According to a press release issued by 4-H Nova Scotia, Camp Rankin was built in 1972...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Those fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine have been given a warm welcome to the Strait area.
According to the Syrian Family Reunification Project, a Syrian refugee family who took up residence...
By: Marjorie Simmins
ISLE MADAME: It all started with giving up television for a year.
In 1991, when Isle Madame-based sisters Myra and Eliza Hyland were 11 and five years old respectively, their father, Frederick Hyland said he’d give them each...