PORT HAWKESBURY: With business booming and employee numbers on the rise, a long-time Reeves Street restaurant is getting applause from the mayor and town officials for its upgraded façade, innovative new services and further expansion plans.
Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton and...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Several different practitioners of stress-reduction activities from around the Strait area descended on St. Mark’s United Church Hall last weekend, for an evening of workshops and public awareness about the courses and services available around the region...
ANTIGONISH: The organizers of Riverside Estates held an open house last weekend to officially christen four new affordable housing units on a site located just outside the town boundaries.
The Antigonish Affordable Housing Society (AAHS) welcomed several visitors and community...
ARICHAT: The priest overseeing Isle Madame’s Roman Catholic parishes is “looking to the silver lining” in the early days of an effort to preserve Our Lady of Assomption (OLA) Church in Arichat, less than a month after warning a...
DARTMOUTH: At the recent Assembly of First Nations (AFN) regional monthly meeting attended by all Mi’kmaq Chiefs in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Morley Googoo’s appointment as AFN Regional Chief was renewed to 2020.
The appointment came as a result of...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The newest additions to the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) Nautical Institute were on display at a ceremony held last Thursday.
In the shadow of a new Fast Rescue Craft (FRC) that is designed to be the first...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The ideas of friendship and collaboration are being put to use for a new project at the local community college.
On March 2, Labour and Advanced Education Minister Kelly Regan announced funding for NSCC student-led projects through the...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A local woodlands conference was so popular, organizers had to turn people away.
Last week, the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre was the site for the “2017 Eastern Hardwood Conference: Exploring Hardwood Potential and Innovation,” hosted by the Nova...
ANTIGONISH: Twinning and tolling were the main topics of conversation at a public meeting last week.
On March 2, the Claymore Inn in Antigonish hosted a public consultation session on highway twinning. The meeting was scheduled for February but was...
ST. PETER’S: The final round of upgrades to the two-lane highway connecting St. Peter’s to Sydney should wrap up later this year, with two levels of government committing a combined $6.52 million towards the remaining 6.2 kilometres of the...