PORT HAWKESBURY: Food was the topic of the day at a recent information session.
The Island Food Network hosted a public meeting at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre last week with the aim of spreading the network’s message across Cape...
PORT HOOD: Inverness Municipal Council is mulling over the pros and cons of a policy that shifts the cost of managing specific wastes/recycling materials from municipalities to producers.
Putting the bug in council’s ear about the policy, called Extended Producer...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Nova Scotia’s plan to distribute cannabis at nine Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC) locations across the province has sparked some discussion around the council table.
At Port Hawkesbury Town Council’s monthly meeting on February 6, Deputy Mayor Hughie...
PORT HOOD: Recent closures of the Canso Causeway have Inverness Municipal Council mulling over what can be done to make bad situations more tolerable.
Councillor John Dowling brought up the matter during the petitions and resolutions section of the municipality’s...
GUYSBOROUGH: Officials with the Municipality of the District of Guysborough approved an amendment to a policy dealing with the public disclosure of the travel expenses of all elected officials during its regular council meeting last Wednesday.
Following the meeting, Warden...
PAQ’TNKEK: A local First Nations community is in favour of a land exchange.
Of the 411 eligible voters in the Paq’tnkek Mi’kmaw Nation, 277 took part in a vote on whether or not to surrender 32 acres of land and...
GUYSBOROUGH: A former cable building has seen the last of its days.
On September 5, the former Commercial Cable Station in Hazel Hill came down. Warden Vernon Pitts commended the Commercial Cable Rehabilitation Society (CCRS) for their efforts in trying...
RICHMOND: Despite not endorsing any of the leadership nominees, a local member of the Progressive Conservative (PC) party is welcoming the election of Pictou East MLA Tim Houston as the party’s new leader.
Alana Paon, MLA for Cape Breton-Richmond, said...
ARICHAT: In the wake of reduced service linked to a lack of additional municipal funds from Richmond County, municipal councillors have voted to ask senior staff to see if the latest funding request from Strait Area Transit (SAT) can...
PORT HOOD: A disagreement between Inverness Municipal Councillors was settled as council voted to rescind motions that would have resulted in municipal funding for the expansion of an airstrip in Margaree.
On July 7, 2014 and December 1, 2014, council...