ANTIGONISH: Last week saw the first of what will be a series of joint meetings between town and county councils.
The People’s Place Antigonish Town and County Library hosted the first official joint meeting between Antigonish Town and Antigonish Municipal...
ANTIGONISH: The exhibition grounds came up during a recent joint council meeting.
During a joint council meeting last week, Antigonish Town and County council members discussed the lease of the Eastern Nova Scotia Exhibition (ENSE) grounds.
Antigonish Mayor Laurie Boucher said...
GUYSBOROUGH: A community is still in mourning following the loss of four lives.
On January 6, Antigonish RCMP confirmed four people passed away as a result of a triple homicide and suicide on January 3 in Upper Big Tracadie. While...
HALIFAX: A doctor who served Strait area patients was reprimanded for an incident three years ago.
Dr. Sockalingam Senthillmohan received a reprimand from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia regarding an incident at the Strait-Richmond Hospital in...
ANTIGONISH: Money is coming from the town to a local fuel fund.
During a council meeting in December, Antigonish Town Council voted to increase the funding provided to the Antigonish Fuel Fund from $2,000 to $5,000.
The AFF asked the town...
ANTIGONISH: A fundraising drive for a local hospital received responses from two local councils last month.
In November, representatives of the St. Martha’s Regional Hospital Foundation made a presentation to Antigonish Town Council regarding the “St. Martha’s and You. The...
INVERNESS: Local MLA Allan MacMaster is happy to hear steps are being taken to make travel for those in Valley Mills much less time consuming.
“In May of last year, a vehicle struck the Crowdis Bridge,” the Inverness County member...
GUYSBOROUGH: Municipal council is meeting with the province to discuss nursing homes.
Last month, Guysborough Warden Vernon Pitts invited Erin Smiley, a health care consultant with the provincial government, to show her some of the issues facing local nursing homes....
PORT HAWKESBURY: Despite a recent funding shortfall that resulted in the late-December dissolution of a community outreach and support worker post overseen by the Richmond County Literacy Network (RCLN), officials in Port Hawkesbury are still willing to work with...
PORT HASTINGS: The Strait regional school board (SRSB) is now targeting early March for the formal movement of its operations from the board’s current central office in Port Hastings to the SAERC high school site in Port Hawkesbury.
The board’s...