U.S. balloon ends up in Queens County
Amateur radio operators from Queens County and the Annapolis Valley helped track down a California balloon involved in a cross-continent...
Town budgets $150,000 toward Bridgewater Memorial Arena renovation
The Town of Bridgewater laid a new path forward for its former ice rink, shelving a proposed six-figure spending on...
Q-League’s Voltigeurs draft Bridgewater centre
Bridgewater’s Luke Woodworth, the 11th overall selection in the recent Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) draft, aims to be...
New Germany gives new meaning to a COVID “cancel”
When the pandemic put paid to any notion of a social activity celebrating the New Germany Lions Club’s 35th anniversary...
Lunenburg salutes built heritage
Lunenburg celebrated some of its built history on the occasion of its 267th birthday.
Six properties were recently honoured with heritage...
Lunenburg reduces residential, commercial tax rates
In a time when financial figures need adjustment and re-tweaking because of pressures brought on by coronavirus uncertainty, the Town...
Junior B Privateers seek contract adjustments from Region of Queens
The Liverpool Junior B Privateers seek reinstatement of some financial terms, such as revenue-sharing, which encompassed a previous long-term deal...
Fresh Cuts Market nominated under Shine On campaign
With two big grocery chain stores in town, Bridgewater may not be the easiest place for a smaller grocery business...
Bridgewater commits nearly $300,000 toward radio tower replacement
Bridgewater transmitted $295,000 into its 2020-21 capital budget toward replacing an aging, unsafe and un-repairable radio tower largely used for...
Blockhouse Hill development still on Lunenburg’s radar
A staff report examining potential land sale, surveying, traffic analysis, and other considerations will come to Lunenburg civic politicians as...
A concrete COVID idea
Renowned for his whimsical concrete sculptures that have drawn visitors to his garden centre in Liverpool from far and wide,...
Social media post suggesting creation of South Shore KKK raises ire
A Lunenburg County man’s supposedly satirical social media post gauging interest in creating a South Shore Ku Klux Klan (KKK)...
Missing 29-year-old Maitland man found dead
It’s a sad ending to a multi-day search for a Lunenburg County man missing for days.
Jacob Donald Croft was found...
UPDATE: Lights, camera, action: Cineplex to re-open Bridgewater cinemas this month
Movie-goers rejoice; the Cineplex cinema in Bridgewater re-opens this month and will start showing popular releases customers may have missed...
Wool shop knits community together during hard times
A wool shop in Mahone Bay has been knitting together a community of people in the province who were sequestered...
South Shore’s Christine Welldon delves into the New Orleans jazz scene
Author Christine Welldon has made her first foray into the world of fiction with her recently-released novel about a young...
Police, MedicAlert partnership to benefit vulnerable populations in Bridgewater
The Bridgewater Police Service has another instrument at its disposal to help protect the town’s most vulnerable populations.
Main Street of...
NSCC’s 2020-21 academic year moving online with some exceptions
Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) has announced that programming for the 2020-21 academic year will include either fully scheduled or...
Local municipality procures $32,000 software upgrade from U.S. firm
Taxpayers in the Municipality of Chester are spending nearly $32,000 to have a U.S.-based firm provide installation, licencing and first-year...
Local MP pushes back on opposition claims fisheries committee proceedings are stifled
South Shore-St. Margaret’s MP Bernadette Jordan is pushing back against opposition charges that a House of Commons fisheries committee’s proceedings...
Introvert alternative band members get creative with pandemic isolation
An alternative rock band in Lunenburg is releasing what it describes as a “pandemic anthem” called Social Distance.
The latest single...
Fuel truck spills nearly 300 litres of diesel in Liverpool
Nearly 300 litres of diesel spilled onto the ground in Liverpool after a malfunction involving a commercial truck during an...
Former South Shore students buoying fisheries tech company
A former Bridgewater high school student along with his former classmates and others in the area are buoying a growing...
Federal gun ban worries Baker Settlement firearms owner
Ottawa’s recent declaration that more than 1,000 models and variants of assault-style firearms would be banned in Canada raised alarm...
Chester Basin property subject of public complaints operates within rules: municipality
Despite noise, nuisance and environmental-related complaints focused on Ricky Schnare’s Chester Basin property, the Municipality of Chester recently concluded operations...
