ST. PETER’S: With the municipality expected to announce its plans for tourism development in Richmond County within the coming days, municipal officials and tourism promotion groups are expressing optimism after a recent joint meeting on the subject.
A meeting on...
INVERNESS COUNTY: Local MLA Allan MacMaster is pleased to see that work on Inverness County Roads is coming.
“I want to make sure we get our fair share,” MacMaster told The Reporter last week, just days after issuing a press...
ANTIGONISH: The town and county are working on formalized meetings set to begin next year.
Antigonish Mayor Laurie Boucher said she looks forward to updating the joint meetings between the town and county councils.
Boucher said the two municipalities began having...
GUYSBOROUGH: Local trailblazers recently got some help from the province.
On December 22, Guysborough-Eastern Shore-Tracadie MLA Lloyd Hines announced $50,000 in funding for the Guysborough County Trails Association. Hines said the funding was part of the government’s commitment of $1...
HALIFAX: A representative from Nova Scotia’s Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT) explained the results of an investigation into an incident involving a local youth that occurred last summer.
On January 12, SiRT released a report clearing the RCMP following an...
GUYSBOROUGH: Municipal council is in the early stages of establishing a strategic plan for the area.
During last night’s regular monthly meeting of council for the Municipality of the District of Guysborough, members approved MacPherson Roche Smith and Associates as the...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Town councillors are disappointed with the lack of consideration given to the Strait area as a site for the legal sale of cannabis.
At the Town of Port Hawkesbury Council’s regular meeting on April 3, councillors shared a...
ARICHAT: The municipality has awarded a tender to conduct improvements to Internet and cell phone services in parts of Richmond County.
During a special meeting of Richmond Municipal Council on August 1 in Arichat, council approved a motion to confirm...
ANTIGONISH:
Residents seem pleased with the county’s decision to hang on to a historic
courthouse.
Last
month, during a special council meeting, Antigonish County Council voted to
accept amendments to the lease between the province and the county...
ARICHAT: Richmond Municipal Council is a step closer to overhauling its system of distributing municipal grants, but the chair of council’s municipal Policy Committee says his group wasn’t consulted about the new system.
Councillors unanimously approved the new Grants Policy...