Without a doubt, there are major problems within the public education system in Nova Scotia.
These past few months of negotiations - although side-tracked at times by issues like wages, pensions and long service awards – made it clear that...
Simon Forest, the son of Pierre Forest and Madeleine Babin, was born at Pisiquit (in the Minas Basin area) about 1724, and married about 1749 to Marguerite Gautrot, daughter of Jean Gautrot and Anne LeBlanc.
In 1755, during “Le Grand...
ISLE MADAME: The Progressive Conservatives have a new face seeking election.
Isle Madame native Alana Paon became the PC candidate for the riding of Cape Breton-Richmond after being acclaimed on February 1.
A business consultant and farmer, Paon said she’s been...
The dissolution process for the Town of Mulgrave is being held up, and not for a good reason.
Following the recent regular monthly meeting of Mulgrave Town Council, Mayor Ralph Hadley commented on a meeting with the Municipality of the...
PORT HOOD: Two games into the first round of the Nova Scotia Major Midget Hockey League (NSMMHL) playoffs, and the Cape Breton West Islanders are two games closer to advancing to the second round.
“We had two pretty tough games,...
Editor’s note: Due to a production error, the “Repeating history” column that was scheduled to appear in the February 15 edition was not published. Below is the version of the column which was supposed to appear in last week’s...
A long thin ribbon of sand, gravel and rocks make up part of Cape Breton’s shoreline on the north end of the Strait of Canso.
This gravel/rock bar of approximately three kilometres is quite a natural feature that can be...
I find this column hard to write, because in doing so I have to say goodbye to a pair of familiar faces – one on a local scale, the other at a national level – who touched me, and...
What with the dazzling number of storm days in the last few weeks, it’s high time to offer my list of favourite storm day activities. Sure, I am an adult and storm days, for me, mean working from home,...
The Strait Pirates will host the Glace Bay Miners for game three of their Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League play-off series this Friday at 7:30 p.m.