STRAIT AREA: The Port Hastings rotary, Auld’s Cove interchange, and a continuation of the twinning of Highway 104 highlight local area projects in the province’s Five-year Highway Improvement Plan.
The Highway 104/Route 344 intersection...
ANTIGONISH: A local business leader feels it is time for a change.
On November 29, Central Supplies owner Steve Smith announced his decision to sell to the Kent Building Supplies organization, effective December 31, 2016.
This year marked the 40th anniversary...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Since Sept. 30 is National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, town council has decided to raise the Mi’kmaw flag.During the regular monthly meeting of Port Hawkesbury Town Council on Sept. 20, Deputy Mayor Jason Aucoin...
ARICHAT: Meeting for the first time since winning their seats in Richmond County’s new five-district system, the municipality’s newest municipal council chose a third-term councillor and a political newcomer as their warden and deputy warden.
The new Richmond Warden is...
MONASTERY: The search for a man who went missing late last month resumed on the weekend.
On Sunday, Antigonish District RCMP confirmed they restarted their search for 23-year-old Craig Joseph Perry.
The RCMP said favourable weather and ice flow conditions allowed...
ANTIGONISH: An Antigonish woman facing an attempted murder charged now faces additional charges in connection with a stabbing outside of a bar in January.
Five years to the day Cpl. Lionel Desmond rocked the...
STRAIT AREA: Those involved with the Nova Scotia International Student Program (NSISP) are happy the program is returning.
Tommy Dilosa, Home Stay Coordinator with the NSISP, said the program was stalled from September 2020...
ANTGONISH: Bishop Brian Dunn of the Diocese of Antigonish will be among 10 Atlantic Canadian Roman Catholic bishops meeting with Pope Francis and other papal officials in their Ad Limina visit taking place March 11-22.
Ad Limina visits are a tradition,...
ARICHAT: Volunteers with the Catholic church here are confident they can undertake the repairs and raise the money needed to keep the historic building operating.
Odilon Boudreau, with the Friends of Our Lady of Assomption, said volunteers Gerry Samson and...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Town officials are projecting a
$100,000 loss in revenue for the month of April, and in a “best case scenario,”
a total of $300,000 in losses over the next six months.
Outlining current and...