PORT HAWKESBURY: An Inverness County man was sentenced to serve time in federal prison.
On June 14 in Port Hawkesbury Provincial Court, 34-year-old James Edwin Tyler Goswell received a three-year sentence (including credit for the year-and-a-half he already served in...
PAQ’TNKEK: Two men were arrested and charged and a third was sent to hospital following an incident last week in Antigonish County.
On June 14 at 1:06 a.m., Antigonish District RCMP responded to a complaint of an assault involving three...
MULGRAVE: Tax rates in Mulgrave will not change in the coming fiscal year.
On May 22, members of Mulgrave Town Council passed the town’s budget and tax rates for 2018/2019.
The combined residential tax rate will hold steady at $1.80 per...
MULGRAVE: The Town of Mulgrave has decided to join a local economic development organization after withdrawing their request for membership earlier this spring.
During the regular monthly meeting of Mulgrave Town Council on June 4, members voted in favour of...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Port Hawkesbury Town Council has unanimously approved a budget for 2018-2019 that will leave tax rates unchanged.
At the Town of Port Hawkesbury’s regular monthly council meeting on June 5, members voted to approve a balanced $7.8 million...
PORT HOOD: Inverness Family Place executive director JoAnna LaTulippe-Rochon and staff supervisor Mitch McNutt are asking council to provide funds to help set up a garden in the village of Inverness.
“What we’d like to do is take a space...
PORT HOOD: Inverness Municipal Council dissolved its accessibility committee, a group mandated to make the county more accessible to those with disabilities, but a new committee is already in place to take up the challenge.
Council decided to make this...
EVANSTON: Supporters of the Strait-Richmond Hospital made their pitch to the community.
During a meeting of the Strait-Richmond Healthcare Foundation on June 5 at the Riverdale Community Centre, the Shannon family confirmed their donation of $300,000 for the first phase...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A local community organization wants to find out how well residents’ basic needs are being met in the Strait area.
On June 4, the Strait Region Society for Children, Youth, and Families hosted a Vital Signs event at...
ANTIGONISH: A new palliative care unit at St Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish was officially opened last Friday.
The renovation, which began in January, 2018, created a six-bed palliative care unit.
“I think having an in-patient unit affords us the opportunity...