The Southwest Storm start their road to a three-peat this weekend. They’ve won back-to-back Nova Scotia Regional Junior Hockey League titles. They’re hosting Spryfield in the first two games of their best-of-five first round series. Both games will be played at the Sandy Wickens Memorial Arena...
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Athletes from Yarmouth are headed to the national Special Olympic Winter Games in Calgary. Walter Muise is part of the five-member curling team that will represent Nova Scotia. He says he’s looking forward to facing the best, and thanks the community for their support. “Hopefully there will be a...
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Most of Nova Scotia, including Cape Breton, is in for very wet, windy weather followed by a fast freeze. Environment Canada’s rainfall warning calls for 25 to 50 mm with south winds gusting 70-90 km/h from Friday evening to Saturday evening. The forecaster says the frozen ground has a reduced...
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by Adam RileyOfficials with the Transportation Museum of Thunder Bay say the recent discovery of a shipwreck in Lake Superior has a connection to the Lakehead. Earlier this month researchers announced they had discovered the wreck of the SS Arlington which Connor Kilgour, who serves as one of the museums...
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If you’re fueling up, you’ll be pleased to see that fuel is down. The Utility and Review Board adjusted prices at midnight in Nova Scotia. Self-serve regular gas has dropped 2.4 cents a litre to a minimum of $1.61. Diesel has dropped 6 cents to about $1.93.
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by Tara ClowSome ups, and some downs for gas prices this week. The Energy and Utilities Board made its weekly price adjustment overnight. Diesel is down 5.3 cents a litre, while furnace oil dropped 4.9 per litre. The cost of regular self-serve gasoline increased, barely though by only 0.4 cents a litre....
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A man is in custody following a large police presence in Antigonish County. In their latest post on X, RCMP say officers responded to a report of a man armed with a knife on Treaty Road in Afton Friday morning. He is in custody and police say there is no ongoing threat to the public. Treaty Road...
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by Adam RileyA dream come true, that is the feeling of Kim Baigrie now she has been sworn in officially the Mayor of Ignace. Last month Baigrie won a vote held by council between her and Councillor Jodie Defeo and took the oath of office during Tuesday’s council meeting, an act she never thought she would...
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by Tara ClowA new piece of equipment will mean a faster response for the Moncton Fire Department’s HazMat response team. Moncton City Council approved the purchase of a portable, solid-sample chemical-identifying spectrometer unit from Levitt Safety Ltd, for $202,606, with $50,000 of that coming from the...
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by Caitlin SnowIf you want more information about the possibility of the town and county of Antigonish merging, the group Let Antigonish Decide is hosting a community meeting Sunday afternoon. It comes after more than 75 per cent of Antigonish residents voted, in a recent survey, to have a say on...
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