PORT HOOD: Six students from Bayview Education Centre visited Inverness Municipal Council late last week to tell their municipal leaders about an initiative to keep it green at their school.
The kids fleshed out...
AULD’S COVE: Canada’s original Irving Big Stop is
offering truckers free meals to support the workers keeping Canada’s supply
chain running during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Truckers are increasingly being denied hot meals, hot
showers or...
HALIFAX: More summer festivals in the Strait area have
been cancelled.
Due to the current pandemic, Festival of the Strait
2020 has been cancelled.
“The safety of our committee, suppliers, attendees and
everyone involved...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The consultant who has been hired by the Town of Port Hawkesbury and the Cape Breton Partnership to take on two separate waterfront projects hosted a community engagement session for the first project on August...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Municipal and First Nations leaders from throughout Cape Breton gathered in Port Hawkesbury last week to discuss issues affecting the region.
“It’s an organic discussion about where we are as an island,” said Port Hawkesbury mayor, Brenda Chisholm-Beaton,...
ANTIGONISH: An event on the local campus was an attempt to get the business community together.
Last week, StFX University’s Keating Millennium Centre played host to the Antigonish Business Forum organized by the Town of Antigonish, the Municipality of the...
BEDFORD: Nourish Your Roots, (NYR) is a healthy fundraising program developed by Nourish Nova Scotia for schools and non-profit childcare centres that connects children and families to the healthy, local and fresh food available from Nova Scotia farmers.
Instead of...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A local convenience store and gas bar is one of the latest nominees in Advocate Media’s “Shine On” campaign.
Kathleen Leblanc nominated Need’s Convenience and Fast Fuel of Port Hawkesbury in the...
ANTIGONISH: Canada would not be what it is today without him.
This was one of the points made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his remarks at a celebration of the life of Allan J. MacEachen last Sunday. MacEachen passed...
NORTH GRANT: An 87-year-old Antigonish woman was pronounced deceased at the scene of a four-vehicle traffic collision that took place last evening on Highway 245 near North Grant.
“There were three cars and a tractor trailer involved in the collision,” said...