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 taken
from the Richmond County Record
of...
There’s something eerily familiar about the tale of Northern Pulp and the recent events
surrounding its uncertain future.
Of course, that’s because we’ve lived so much of it,
right here in the Strait of Canso.
St. Peter’s and Port Hawkesbury restaurants have common
problems with parking lot safety.
Well-marked, but poorly designed signage while trying
to enter or exit the parking lots make for an unsafe entrance or exit for their
customers.
Communication efforts with Mulgrave Fire Chief Mike
Breen have included efforts to curb his practice of executing spends without
purchase orders, seeking payments without adequate paperwork and failure to
account for the operational and regulatory status of the department.
Amid local and provincial attempts to fight problems in
the health care system, it was very disappointing to learn that two emergency departments
in the Strait area were closed a total of 1,664-hours during 2018-19.
According...
There is no virtue in recalling the exact moment it occurred. At this point, it might be better to make acceptance (and tissues) your primary focus.
It’s tempting to imagine how (and when) this...
To recap, I wrote a column last spring expounding on
the climatic consequences of eating meat and dairy, and shamelessly promoted
veganism.
In it I quoted a landmark study published last year in
the journal Science, concluding
that,...
Inverness County Cares (ICC) is a
local charitable organization founded in 2012 and based in Inverness County with
a mandate to assist children who are in desperate need. Their current project
involves supporting two schools for albino and visually impaired...
Like a growing number of Canadians, especially those in
rural areas without local access to the merchandise they’re looking for, I did
most of my holiday shopping on-line; in my pajamas, hair up in a mom bun,
coffee in hand,...
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905.
After his classical studies from 1922 to 1928 at the seminary at Trois Riviere,
he spent three years at agricultural school at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere.
Here he earned bachelors’ degrees in arts and...