PORT HAWKESBURY: The Mayor of Port Hawkesbury says town
officials are close to finalizing the 2019-20 budget.
Officials with the town began their budget
deliberations prior to their previous fiscal year ending at the end of...
ANTIGONISH:
On May 8, just before 5 p.m. Antigonish District RCMP was called to the scene
of a deceased man in Indian Gardens.
Investigators
called the RCMP Northeast Nova Major Crimes unit to assist, and also...
PORT HOOD: Inverness Municipal Council has ordered that
a pair of dangerous and unsightly premises be brought down.
Jonathan Martin, a building inspector from the Eastern
District Planning Commission, visited council’s regular monthly meeting on May
2...
PORT HOOD: Inverness Municipal Council’s letter of
support for Northern Pulp, a
pulp mill in Pictou County, to be granted a one-year extension to a deadline
for the construction of a new effluent treatment facility resulted in some
pushback.
PORT HOOD: Inverness Municipal Council passed two
resolutions last Thursday that will assist in securing provincial funding for
wellfield exploration in the communities of Inverness and Judique while
providing a structural assessment of the Judique dam.
The...
HALIFAX: While more support for inclusive education was
applauded, the manner in which it will be implemented was questioned.
On May 2, the provincial government announced that
students across the province will have access to 173...
PORT HOOD: Inverness Municipal Council was asked to
support the Nova Scotia Association of Realtors (NSAR) in a bid to help
first-time home owners keep a little cash in pocket when investing in property.
“Residents can...
ANTIGONISH: A local MLA is calling for the Minister of
Health and the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) to address the problems of
doctor retention at St. Martha’s Regional Hospital head-on.
Allan MacMaster, the Progressive Conservative...
ANTIGONISH:
An RCMP officer was injured while arresting an intoxicated man.
Just
before midnight on April 27, an Antigonish RCMP member was getting fuel at
a service station on Beech Hill Road when he was approached by a taxi driver
about...
ARICHAT: Councillors denied a request to forgive
tipping fees for a group demolishing the former glebe house in Petit de Grat.
The St. Joseph Parish finance committee wrote Richmond
Municipal Council and explained that when the...