By: Melanie Holder and Matt Draper
STRAIT AREA: As teachers sat down with the provincial government to discuss proposed reforms to the education system, Strait area educators held meetings and organized protests last week.
On February 20, 93 per cent of...
ARICHAT: Municipal staff held a vote here late last week about joining the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU).
The Nova Scotia Labour Board oversaw the June 25 vote at the municipality’s...
POTLOTEK FIRST NATION: Peace and harmony will be kept and maintained on the waters of St. Peter’s Bay as a local First Nation community begins their own self-regulated fishery.
Leadership between the Potlotek First...
ANTIGONISH: Cape George resident William Leigh Brady said he has asked the local crown to either return marijuana police took from his home in 2012 or repay him.
“It’s supposed to be that if charges are dropped, or the cases...
PORT HOOD: A project to have a sidewalk extending from
Whycocomagh to We’koqma’q First Nation is in the works, but Melanie Beaton, the
special projects facilitator for Inverness County, said it won’t be happening
as quickly as was hoped.
ANTIGONISH: A councillor in the Town of Antigonish says there are too many unanswered questions, as he has not received any additional information on the status of consolidation in nearly two weeks.
“Haven’t heard...
ANTIGONISH: Despite having a new community navigator position filled, the Warden of the Municipality of the County of Antigonish says they still play a role in the recruitment and retention of health practitioners.
Warden...
PORT ROYAL: A Liberal promise to replace a bridge that has been closed for four years and fix the road now being used as a detour received criticism from the Progressive Conservative Party.
On...
INVERNESS: The RCMP is investigating four incidents which took place recently at the Inverness Raceway.
Just before 6 a.m. on September 15, two men, both wearing hooded sweatshirts, entered the main building of the Inverness Raceway at 112 Forest Street. The suspects...
GUYSBOROUGH: With a year hiatus from his law practice, Adam Rodgers is taking the time to try and help Nova Scotians hold the commission investigating April 2020’s mass shooting rampage accountable.
The Guysborough-based attorney,...