By Marike Finlay-de-Monchy
(Part 6 of a series about a sailing come-from-away learning from an old salt in her family’s new home on West Quoddy Bay.)
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By Kelly Corkery
Q: What advice would you give to someone wanting to be organized for gift giving this holiday season?
Jolly in Jeddore
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By Cassandra Grosse
There was an air of excitement as folks trickled in to participate in an official Meet and Greet with Liberal MLA Angela Simmonds, who was elected this summer in the new Preston riding. From the comments I heard in the room, folks could not recall the last time they were invited to a meet-and-greet session with their provincial MLA.
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By Cassandra Grosse
In today's fast paced environment, it seems to me as if folks are still very much on the go even during a pandemic. Business offices once filled with cubicles, water coolers, conference rooms and a common kitchen area has been replaced with Microsoft MS Teams and Zoom video calls.
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By Mary Elizabeth O’Toole
Harbour Retreat is a vacation destination located on picturesque East Petpeswick Road, just minutes from Martinique Beach.
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By Elizabeth MacKinnon
Last January, right before the start of maple syrup season, robbers broke into Danny Lemmon and Kathy Spearing’s sugar shack in Bass River and stole all of their equipment-- a generator, sap lines, tap-line hardware, bottles, filter press, propane tanks, tools, plumbing, electrical items, food, and clothing.
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By Richard Bell
The Cooperator has learned that Lighthouse Links withdrew from the letter of Offer to purchase Owls Head Provincial Park and convert it into a luxury housing development with a few golf courses after learning that the province had determined that the company’s plans for public consultation were inadequate, and that the province would require a more thoroughgoing public consultation process.
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By Richard Bell
Lighthouse Links announced on November 23, 2021 that it is withdrawing from the December 16, 2019 letter of Offer that it had signed with the province to purchase Owls Head Provincial Park and convert it into a luxury housing development with a few golf courses.
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By Richard Bell
The Whale Sanctuary Project (WSP) took a major step forward with the October 29 opening of its Visitor and Operations Centre in a 100-year-old house in Sherbrooke, not far from the site of the proposed sanctuary itself in Port Hilford. The pathbreaking nature of the project and its potential economic impact on the area was reflected in the turnout of federal, provincial, and local elected officials, including Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor Arthur Joseph LeBlanc and his wife Patricia, newly appointed federal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Sean Fraser, several Guysborough Councillors, and HRM District 2 City Councillor David Hendsbee.
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By Jennifer Deacon
After a career in nursing that took her from Halifax to Yellowknife, Rosalie Parsons retired to Spry Harbour and a whole new career as a master quilter and teacher.
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