Tuesday, March 19, 2024

CELEBRATING WOMEN: A Sheet Harbour event to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) March 8 included a session called, Then and Now – A Discussion On How Times Have Changed. Myrene Keating-Owen (left), executive director of LEA Place Women’s Resource Centre; Lindsay Pye, support systems navigator at LEA Place; and beloved community member Gladys Westhaver shared their thoughts and helped lead the discussion. Westhaver, a Sheet Harbour native and mother of four children, has been a go-to person for years, lending a hand in many ways, including as a hairdresser, along with cooking, baking, sewing and filling out forms for people. She worked for a short time at the Sheet Harbour Historical Society, gathering and recording peoples’ stories. There was a great turnout for the celebration, which was organized by LEA Place. Full story in this week's edition.

 

Photo Credit: Crissy Watt

Guysborough Food Bank ‘busier than ever’

By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

GUYSBOROUGH — The Guysborough Food Bank is seeing a sharp increase in the number of people it serves, and the trend is “ongoing” says its manager.

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CELEBRATING WOMEN: A Sheet Harbour event to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) March 8 included a session called, Then and Now – A Discussion On How Times Have Changed. Myrene Keating-Owen (left), executive director of LEA Place Women’s Resource Centre; Lindsay Pye, support systems navigator at LEA Place; and beloved community member Gladys Westhaver shared their thoughts and helped lead the discussion. Westhaver, a Sheet Harbour native and mother of four children, has been a go-to person for years, lending a hand in many ways, including as a hairdresser, along with cooking, baking, sewing and filling out forms for people. She worked for a short time at the Sheet Harbour Historical Society, gathering and recording peoples’ stories. There was a great turnout for the celebration, which was organized by LEA Place. Full story in this week's edition.

 

  • Guysborough Food Bank ‘busier than ever’

    By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

    March 13 2024

    GUYSBOROUGH — The Guysborough Food Bank is seeing a sharp increase in the number of people it serves, and the trend is “ongoing” says its manager. READ MORE



March 13, 2024

  • Near miss motivates mayor to push for intersection solution

    By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

    MULGRAVE — A near miss with an 18-wheeler, a phone call to CN Rail and an unconfirmed commitment from Genesee & Wyoming Rail, is motivating Mulgrave Mayor Ron Chisholm to push for a permanent fix to a longstanding traffic hazard on the outskirts of town. READ MORE

  • Landfall for offshore wind energy not decided

    By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

    GUYSBOROUGH — The Department of Natural Resources and Renewables (NRR) will not confirm that it plans to use the former Sable natural gas corridor, with landfall at Goldboro in eastern Guysborough County, to bring offshore wind energy into the province. READ MORE



Also in this edition...

  • Polling firm suing town, mayor for $2 million

    By Corey LeBlanc

    ANTIGONISH — A polling firm is suing Mayor Laurie Boucher and the Town of Antigonish for $2 million.

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  • École Belle-Baie makes joyful noise in week-long celebration

    By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

    LARRY’S RIVER — If Nicole Avery-Bell, principal of the newly named École Belle-Baie in Larry’s River, is being honest, the past week hasn’t felt much like school. Call it a five-day ball-juggling, taffy-making, joyful noisemaking party, and you’d be closer to the mark.

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  • Dalhousie president delivers keynote address at IWD event in Sheet Harbour

    By Joanne Jordan, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

    SHEET HARBOUR — Women around the world – in communities big and small, including Sheet Harbour – gathered at events created to raise each other up and to promote peace, in celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8.

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March 6, 2024

  • New name chosen for Acadian school

    By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

    LARRY’S RIVER — A mere five months after it flung wide its doors, the Tor Bay region’s French language public school has a new name its founders say captures the history and hopes of an entire community: École Belle-Baie. READ MORE

  • Cassandra Desmond acquitted of six charges

    By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

    ANTIGONISH — Thirty-two-year-old Cassandra Desmond of Antigonish, formerly of Lincolnville, has been acquitted of six charges stemming from a fight at Dooly’s billiard room in downtown Antigonish two years ago. READ MORE

  • Cochrane Hill drilling results ‘encouraging,’ mining company says

    By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

    COCHRANE HILL — The Australian-based mining giant that’s been searching for gold in the Cochrane Hill area of the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s says it has found “highly encouraging” signs after drilling its “first deep hole” in the area. READ MORE

  • Mulroney had deep affection for StFX, Central Nova

    By Corey LeBlanc

    CENTRAL NOVA — It was the late summer of 1955 and a 16-year-old boy from rural Quebec arrived on the StFX campus “carrying a cardboard suitcase and wearing the only blazer I owned” to embark on a life’s journey that included almost a decade in the highest elected office in Canada. READ MORE



    February 28, 2024

    • New grassroots housing society launched for Guysborough County

      By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

      GUYSBOROUGH — With its founding meeting last week, Community First: Guysborough County Housing Association marked its debut as the first grassroots group from the area with the goal of providing affordable housing in the Municipality of the District of Guysborough (MODG), District of St. Mary’s and Town of Mulgrave. READ MORE

    • U.K. visit reinforces huge potential in offshore wind

      By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

      GUYSBOROUGH — Barry Carroll makes no bones about it – readying the Eastern Shore for its future in offshore wind, the Municipality of the District of Guysborough (MODG)-led fact-finding mission to the U.K.’s massive wind farms last month was nothing short of “fantastic.” READ MORE

    • Investigation continues into death of ship worker in Mulgrave

      By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

      MULGRAVE — The Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration (LSI) continues to investigate following the workplace death of a crewmember of a Clearwater Seafood vessel moored in Mulgrave for routine servicing last week. READ MORE