By Richard Bell
The Old School Community Gathering Place is home to “Enhance Through Dance,” an innovative program that provides much-needed support to people suffering from neurodegenerative challenges of aging like Parkinson’s.
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November 9, 2022
By Richard Bell
Nova Scotia’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Tricia Ralph has issued a strong rebuke of the Houston administration’s attempt to prevent the public from ever understanding why the province decided to place a new junior high/high school in the East Chezzetcook Industrial Park, rather than renovating or replacing the current building in Musquodoboit Harbour.
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Long-time Seaforth resident Rowland Marshall celebrated his 95th birthday with an exhibition and sale of his widely exhibited artwork at the Seaforth Community Hall on October 15, 2022.
In a recent interview the CEO of Emera, Scott Balfour, claims he is worried about “the investment climate here in Nova Scotia” due to the Premier's decision to limit electricity rate increases at 1.8% over the next two years.
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By Dee Dwyer
On a sunny warm October afternoon, I sat down with Kateryna Kharchuk, who now lives in West Jeddore, to hear her story of leaving war-torn Ukraine and coming to Canada and the Eastern Shore.
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By Linda Verlinden
The Eastern Shore’s Musquodoboit Harbour and area is fortunate to be home to Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital and The Birches. These healthcare facilities are very important to the area’s residents. The Birches, built in 1979, has 42 long term care beds. Twin Oaks Hospital (replaced in 1979) has 14 beds and a very busy out patient department.Most families in the facilities’ catchment area have been touched by the Twin Oaks and the Birches in some way.
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By Karen Bradley
Everyone on social media knows the pleas for local housing: from an apartment that went from $650 to $1950 with no apparent upgrades to single moms looking for anything at all, yard or not, for herself and 3 children to a young person couch-surfing and hoping for even a tiny basement apartment.
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By Karen Bradley
When the Halifax Regional Municipality came into being in 1996, many in the villages and enclaves of the Eastern Shore and Musquodoboit Valley were rightly concerned about an additional third layer of bureaucracy. The small communities had organized their own municipal concerns; the Halifax government had to manage urban, suburban, and rural issues.
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MusGo Rider cars and vans are a familiar sight along the Eastern Shore. They can be seen driving clients to medical appointments, work, training, errands, or grocery shopping. The service is available to anyone who lives in the communities. For those with cost as a barrier, there are fare reduction programs.
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