STRAIT AREA: Two local wardens found themselves answering questions in June regarding their respective municipalities’ expense claim policies.
In the wake of reports showing the Municipality of the District of Guysborough (MODG) spent an estimated $37,643 at Federation of Canadian...
FORT MCMURRAY: In the midst of the upheaval, turmoil and loss associated with the wildfires that swept through Alberta last May, stories of generosity and heroism emerged involving Strait area residents living and working in the province during the...
ARICHAT: Nearly four months after a tie vote sunk a move to launch a forensic audit of credit card expenses incurred by Richmond County’s municipal councillors and staff, the concept received unanimous council approval.
Councillors approved the motion to direct...
HALIFAX: The minister responsible for Nova Scotia’s tourism industry ended weeks of speculation by confirming that all six provincially-run Visitor Information Centres (VICs) would remain open in their host communities, including Port Hastings.
Although Business Minister Mark Furey said traffic...
HALIFAX: Exxon Mobil confirmed it was decommissioning the Sable Offshore Energy project, including the Goldboro Gas Plant and the Point Tupper Fractionation Plant.
Because that process was still in the planning stages, the company could not confirm how long the...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A military veteran was cleared of a weapons conviction stemming from a stand-off with the police.
On February 11, 2011, 47-year-old Stephen Paul Druken surrendered to the RCMP after the Port Hawkesbury detachment received a 911 call of...
PORT HAWKESBURY: With food bank usage in Nova Scotia jumping by 20 per cent over the past year, food banks in the Strait area are getting a hand from two long-running grocery chains in addition to community groups and...
MABOU: The dance went on anyway.
Earlier this year, with students and teachers facing a possible work action, Dalbrae Academy students arranged to have their annual Christmas Ball moved from the week before Christmas, to December 1.
On November 30, with...
ARICHAT: The bells of the former St. John's Anglican Church may soon ring again, just over 30 months after the Isle Madame building officially ended its 130-year existence as a house of worship.
The Friends of St. John's Arichat Society,...
PETIT DE GRAT: The last five years haven’t been easy ones for Catherine LeBlanc.
Now nine-years-old, Catherine was life-flighted from St. Anne’s Community and Nursing Care Centre in Arichat to the IWK Children’s Hospital in Halifax in May of 2011....