The findings of a homelessness count of Eastern Nova Scotia completed in November of 2021 and released earlier this month, highlight a need for housing strategies around the Strait area.
The report identified 483...
I am not a wellness expert. I will tell you that up front. I have a mostly sedentary job; I don’t go to the gym, and I don’t get enough sleep.
According to some...
Enough already; I’m tired of most of what is making the news during these summer months.
Let’s take a break from what we hear about almost daily: the war in Ukraine; COVID-19; sexual assaults;...
Nova Scotia Public Works has put lines in almost everywhere except Arichat-West Arichat-Petit de Grat. Why?
At night, I come home sometimes after 12 o’clock and if there is heavy fog, which there is...
Good news announcements have been arriving steadily over the summer from around the Strait area.
On Aug. 3 the federal government announced $190,000 in funding to revitalize the Port Hawkesbury waterfront.
The “principal principle” states that for every solution not carefully considered, one always creates more problems than one solves. Some readers may even recognize the notion as a variation of Merton’s Law of Unintended Consequences: a frequently-observed...
As early as 1824 a functioning school existed in Arichat. By 1834, the school faced insurmountable financial difficulties and as a result, the creditors, primarily John Tyrrell, a prominent Arichat merchant, foreclosed on the property, but, instead...
My brother Kev is the adventurer in the family.
He hikes regularly and has often driven on vacation on his own, to other provinces or to the states and as of this writing, that’s...
Although StFX University is going beyond what is expected of them when it comes to masking rules, the fact the Antigonish campus is not going all the way is disappointing.
StFX’s Academic Vice President...
In 1897 Bertram Bourinot began the Richmond County Record, a periodical that lasted for almost 80 years. Marshall Bourinot worked with his father and continued the paper into the 1970s.
The following excerpts are...