Hey folks. Confession time: This is probably my last column with The Reporter. I’ve accepted another job so I’ll be shipping out of here.
First of all, I’d like to thank you all for continuing to read my ramblings for...
The following excerpt is taken from Cape Breton Book of the Night edited by Ronald Caplan. This story was taped, transcribed, and translated into English by Jocelyne Marchand.
“We had problems after we got there. The first night we slept...
I have mixed emotions about “On This Day,” Facebook’s collection of all posts and activity from one particular day year-to-year.
A past post will be featured on the main page with a banner at the top of the page saying,...
“That’s mighty white of you.”
I had never heard the phrase before I started my first full-time media job, but my newsroom colleague at the time was fond of saying it on a regular basis to news contacts that had...
Seeing wild animals up close can be an exciting experience, however, having a 200-kilogram black bear at your kitchen door wanting a share of the Sunday roast can be a bit too close for comfort.
Eastern Nova Scotia has a...
While experiencing the effects of a literal force of nature, whereby I lost a considerable amount of money, I also came to experience the kinship of my neighbours. Many are familiar with the account of the event on that...
Hopefully, the efforts of a local student looking to establish a more environmentally-friendly way of dealing with organic waste in the Town of Port Hawkesbury will be successful.
Chad Kelly, a second-year Natural Resources and Environmental Technologies student at Nova...
By: Dawn Ostrem
If ever there was a time to take up volunteering for a cause in Richmond County the time is now.
We live in a new world, one that is dealing the effects of an aging global population. The...
The following excerpt is taken from Cape Breton Book of the Night edited by Ronald Caplan. This story was taped, transcribed, and translated into English by Jocelyne Marchand.
“I was born in Petit de Grat in 1911. The old women...
I may be making more of this than I should. It’s probably nothing, but there it remains, a burrowing fear that gnaws at me in unlikely moments. I suspect the concern is common amongst people in my age demographic.
I...