Public transportation groups receive accessibility funding
HALIFAX:
The provincial government is providing funding under the Accessible
Transportation Assistance Program to help groups purchase accessible vehicles.
Eighteen
organizations will receive funding under the program to...
PORT HOOD:
An application from the Cape Mabou Pasture Co-op for municipal funding was
turned down during Inverness County’s regular meeting last Thursday.
The group
was looking for $15,000 from the municipality. That money would complement an
Atlantic...
HALIFAX: A L’Ardoise fisherman was
successful in his appeal in federal court.
On May 24 Justice Sylvie Roussel ruled
that Lester Martell of L’Ardoise has the right to use a medical substitute
operator for the current lobster...
ANTIGONISH: The ribbon for the new
cardiorespiratory services unit was cut during a small gathering of provincial
and municipal political representatives, members of the hospital’s foundation
and hospital staff last Thursday.
In recognition of a significant
donation of...
FRAMBOISE:
At 1:30 p.m. on Monday, July 8, Richmond County RCMP responded to a call of a
drowning on Crooked Lake Road.
The woman
who drowned was at a remote cottage with a friend.
INVERNESS
COUNTY: The RCMP is trying to find the person who forced a teenager from
Inverness County to share nude pictures on the Internet.
A press
release from Nova Scotia RCMP said on July 1, a parent...
HALIFAX: A recent Supreme Court ruling
on the beneficiary of a life insurance policy has shed some light on the events
of a tragic 2017 triple murder suicide.
Cpl. Lionel Desmond, a former rifleman
with the 2nd...
PORT HOOD: Rumours still circulate
about the development of a federally and provincially funded airport somewhere
near the community of Inverness, and Inverness Municipal Council would like the
air cleared as to what’s actually going on.
The...
ANTIGONISH: The former franchise owner
of an illegal medicinal dispensary says ever since her charges were dropped
back in March and she turned a leaf on a new business venture – she’s been
targeted and harassed by the RCMP.
CANSO: The
Seamen’s Memorial was constructed in 1976 to mark the 75th Anniversary of the
incorporation of the Town of Canso by the Canso Lions Club with donations from
the Lions and the community.
The
Seamen’s Memorial highlights...