PORT HAWKESBURY: Strait Area Transit (SAT) is looking to provide charter service to groups in Antigonish County.
The Port Hawkesbury-based community transit system has applied to the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB) for an amendment to its motor...
PORT HASTINGS: Things are set to go back to normal at local schools, at least for the moment.
On January 20, both the Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU) and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development announced the parties...
GUYSBOROUGH: The warden says 2018 could be a big year for the area.
Following December’s regular monthly meeting, Guysborough Warden Vernon Pitts reflected on the last 12 months and looked forward to the next 12.
Pitts listed highlights of the last...
PAQ’TNKEK: Voters have approved the use of community land for a highway interchange project.
In a community plebliscite on June 14, 98 per cent of voters approved the designation of land near the Paq’tnkek Interchange Project for economic development.
Rose Paul,...
SHERBROOKE: The leading voice in
the conservation and protection of Nova Scotia’s longest river has launched a
new Web site to inform citizens about the threat of gold mining to the
watershed.
The St. Mary’s River Association
(SMRA)...
ANTIGONISH: Council wants something done about a local intersection.
Following a regular monthly meeting of council for the Municipality of the County of Antigonish on September 18, Warden Owen McCarron said council is still awaiting word from the province on...
GUYSBOROUGH: With several of its member municipalities now re-examining their participation, the Eastern-Strait Regional Enterprise Network (ESREN) was pleased to welcome Mulgrave into the fold in the run-up to its recent annual general meeting.
The ESREN gathering took place on...
MULGRAVE: The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB) has greenlit an application from the Town of Mulgrave to increase the cost of water over the next three years.
“We have a big increase in water rates, and I’m not...
GUYSBOROUGH: The warden says jobs are key to retaining the area’s young people.
Recently released results from Statistics Canada relating to last year’s census show the average age of Canadians is 41 and the average age of Nova Scotians is...
STRAIT AREA: Mother Nature decided to flex her muscles last week.
A string of snow days forced closures across the Strait area between February 10 and February 17. Environment Canada meteorologist Bob Robichaud said weather spotters in the Antigonish area...