MULGRAVE: Council is seeking legal advice in regards to the town’s water treatment facility.
Following last week’s regular monthly meeting of council for the Town of Mulgrave, Mayor Ralph Hadley said the town looking at taking legal action in hopes...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Brenda Chisholm-Beaton’s latest trip to the annual conference of the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities (UNSM) was no routine matter.
Making her first visit to the late-fall UNSM gathering in Halifax as the mayor of Port Hawkesbury, Chisholm-Beaton...
HALIFAX: The provincial government is responding to concerns about an emergency response plan for the Canso Causeway.
In his annual report issued on November 30, Auditor General Michael Pickup noted the province has yet to identify “critical infrastructure, or its...
PORT HASTINGS: The superintendent of schools for the Strait regional school board (SRSB) is striking an optimistic tone about the province’s plan to purchase four of the board’s public-private-partnership (P3) buildings, including an Inverness County school that the board...
MULGRAVE: Town council is trying to gauge interest in filling the final council seat.
Mulgrave Mayor Ralph Hadley said council told the Department of Municipal Affairs that a by-election will prove too costly for taxpayers. He also pointed to the...
ST. PETER’S: It was a favour repaid from a former student to his teacher.
In 1991, St. Peter’s District High School student Chris Boucher considered dropping out. One of his teachers, Marc Stone, had a different idea. After consulting with...
ANTIGONISH: The province cleaned up a beached whale following requests from local residents.
Last week, Antigonish Municipal Councillor Gary Mattie said the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) buried a whale which beached itself on Tracadie Island facing St. George’s Bay.
“They...
PORT HASTINGS: The Strait regional school board (SRSB) continues to alter bus routes, bring in paid and volunteer supervisors and make other adjustments to accommodate the work-to-rule job action launched by Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU) members earlier this...
NORTH GRANT: Antigonish District RCMP is investigating a house fire that occurred just after 8 p.m. on Glenda Crescent last evening.
Preliminary investigation has determined that a 76-year-old resident of the home died. The fire was reported by neighbours.
The RCMP...
HALIFAX: A Strait area MLA now has a few more cabinet files to add to his already long list.
Last week, Premier Stephen McNeil selected Cape Breton-Richmond MLA Michel Samson to fill in for Dina Whalen, who took what was...