PORT HAWKESBURY: Town officials are in the early stages
of their budget deliberations, with town councillors holding their second
budget meeting on April 3.
After the regular Port Hawkesbury Town Council meeting
on April 2, Mayor Brenda...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Despite cancelling their scheduled joint
council meeting later this month with the Municipality of the County of
Richmond, the mayor says she still has confidence that the two
municipal counterparts can have an ongoing and successful partnership.
PORT HAWKESBURY: According to the mayor, a traffic
study has recently started to examine the 1.5 kilometre (km) section of the
Granville Street corridor from Prince Street to Sydney Street.
Following the regular towm council meeting...
BAYFIELD: Two men from Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation have
died while a women was rescued and transported to hospital after the oyster
boat they were in capsized near Seagrass Lane in Bayfield Monday afternoon.
Jennifer Clarke, public...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Town councillors announced they have
awarded the contract for the street upgrade project, that’s part of the larger
Destination Reeves Street project, during their regular town council meeting on
April 2.
Terry Doyle, Port Hawkesbury’s...
ANTIGONISH: The teenager who was facing five charges
after racist graffiti was spray-painted at the school in Monastery has had all
charges against him withdrawn.
The suspect, 18, who can’t be identified under the
Youth Criminal Justice...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Town councillors are raising their
concerns with the proposed 49 per cent increase that the town has to pay under
a new library funding formula.
Council passed a motion to send a letter to...
ARICHAT: Exactly a week after municipal council fired
the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Richmond County’s Warden stepped down.
During a committee-of-the-whole meeting of Richmond
Municipal Council Monday night in Arichat, Warden Jason MacLean announced his
resignation. He...
PORT HOOD: Inverness Municipal Council has ratified a
recommendation to support Northern Pulp in its request for a one-year extension
to the deadline for the construction of a new effluent treatment facility.
The ratification was passed...
HALIFAX: A Strait area MLA had questions for a local
cabinet minister about a section of road in eastern Richmond County.
During Question Period in the Nova Scotia Legislature
on April 2, Cape Breton-Richmond MLA Alana...