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Nova Scotia Budget Bolsters Pre-Primary Education
The Nova Scotia Government will spend $1.47 billion dollars on Education and Early Childhood Development in 2020-21. That is an increase of nearly $50 million or 3.5 per cent - and one budget item acc...
Evan Taylor Feb 26, 2020
Province Focuses On Health Care in Latest Budget
The provincial Liberals are out with the 2020-21 budget. Budget 2020-21 estimates a surplus of $55 million from $11.60 billion in revenue and $11.54 billion in expenses. The province also projects bal...
Evan Taylor Feb 25, 2020 Budget documents for Nova Scotia's 2020-21 Budget titled "Better Together". Photo: Evan Taylor
Residents Evacuated As Fire Breaks Out At Seniors Home
Over 90 residents were evacuated from a seniors complex in Bridgewater due to a fire yesterday. Around noon, the Bridgewater Fire Department were called to Drumlin Hills senior complex for a smoke cal...
Evan Taylor Feb 24, 2020 Residents look on as firefighters enter Drumlin Hills in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Photo: Evan Taylor
Chester Announces New Program To Attract Doctors
The Municipality of the District of Chester announced it will receive $25,000 to create a "Love Where you Work" campaign based on the unique needs of doctors and their families. The campaign will incl...
Evan Taylor Feb 24, 2020 File Photo
Brooklyn Woman Qualifies for Tokyo 2020
A few centimetres can make all the difference, in the case of 23-year-old Sarah Mitton it was a distance of just 34 centimetres that sent her to the Olympics. Over the weekend the Brooklyn native trav...
Evan Taylor Feb 24, 2020 Sarah Mitton atop the podium in Auckland, New Zealand where she qualified for Tokyo 2020 in the shot put. Photo: Athletics Canada
Via Rail Workers Temporarily Laid Off
Nearly 1,000 Via Rail workers have received temporary layoff notices from the company. It comes as opponents of a pipeline project in British Columbia continue to set up rail blockades across the coun...
Evan Taylor Feb 20, 2020
Dalhousie Med Students To Work on South Shore
Minister Randy Delorey visited Bridgewater on February 18 to announce that the South Shore would welcome five Dalhousie medical students annually to complete a work of practical training. This program...
Evan Taylor Feb 18, 2020 Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey announced five clerkship positions are being created on the South Shore for Dalhousie medical students. Photo: Evan Taylor
Local Councils Hear About Public Transit Needs
Last Year the Nova Scotia Department of Culture, Communities and Heritage commissioned a study into public transit needs of the South Shore. The findings of that report are now ready and being shown t...
Evan Taylor Feb 14, 2020 Among the items for sale are two of the old GMC 5500 busses that used to operate Bridgewaters' transit route. Photo: CKBW File Photo
Media and Public Help Lunenburg RCMP Make Arrest
Lunenburg RCMP are thanking the public and local media for helping them make an arrest in connection with a theft case from January 25. A man was recorded on video taking the wallet of someone else at...
Evan Taylor Feb 12, 2020 waferboard / CC
Lightship Point, New Cidery Hopes To Open This Summer
Saltbox Brewing Company are expanding their operations into Lunenburg, this time focusing on cider. The proposed location, called Lightship Point is looking to build on a lot near the tip of Lunenburg...
Evan Taylor Feb 12, 2020 A mockup of Lightship Point in Lunenburg, NS. Photo: Logan Amos Architecture & Design