We hear Cabot
Links is a proposing a commercial airport for Inverness, suggesting
it would help attract more people to Cape Breton Island’s tourism attractions.
It appears the $18 million to pay for it would be ours. No word on...
By: Corrine MacLean, summer assistant at the Strait Area Museum
The Strait Area Museum, formally known as the Port
Hastings Museum and Archives, hosted its annual square dance on June 13.
Attendants gathered at the gazebo,...
Editor’s note:
The following was the winning submission in a Letter to the Editor contest for
international students within the Strait regional centre for education.
Being in Canada is a dream come true. It was the...
This is in reference to a letter on Facebook written by John Green
about the bingo on Thursday, May 30, at the fire hall in Port Hastings.
The week before, John gave instructions on how...
Two years ago, the municipal councillors of Inverness
County rescinded a previous motion to support an airport expansion in Margaree.
There were many reasons, but bottom line was that Inverness County could not
financially afford the project and there was...
I wish to comment on the story about Richmond County
wanting a mayoralty system. Interesting how the present warden is so anxious
for this higher paying stint and with more or less total power for the entire
county to boot.
Consumers
- starting with the young, elderly and the handicapped population - are feeling
the pinch at the gas pumps.
The high price of gasoline, along with the closing of full service
gas bars at some of...
On May 24, representatives from the Nova Scotia Health
Authority, MLA Lloyd Hines, Municipality of the District of Guysborough
Councillor Janet Peitzsche, management, staff and foundation members of Eastern
Memorial Hospital, the Canso Lions Club, the local physician and myself...
There was once a time when everyone could see a doctor
whenever they needed to. If you go back far enough, doctors made house calls.
These days, more than 50,000 Nova Scotians don’t have a
family...
Nova Scotia has reached a seminal period in its
existence where our levels of governments (and all Nova Scotians) must work for
the sustainability of its inhabitants and acknowledge that its people and wild
life are variables in the equation...