Mackenzie Myatt
When I first heard about the new coronavirus, it was in China and it really didn’t affect me—if you have live meat markets, I remember thinking, you’re probably going to catch something from time to time
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By Jacqueline Sanford
The U15-B Boys of the Porters Lake Soccer Association won this winter’s U15-B Winter Indoor Championship at the BMO Soccer Center in Halifax over the weekend of March 7/8. Their surprising win came after just squeaking into the playoffs on the last game of the regular season East Hants), and winning their semi-final match on a “sudden death” shoot-out (Suburban FC).
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The community of people that produces the Cooperator is scrambling to keep the Eastern Shore’s only local newspaper alive in the rapidly changing COVID-19 economy. You should be getting the April issue in your mailbox by March 30. Now more than ever, we need you to become a Monthly Supporter so that we have the funds we need to keep bringing the paper to you in this increasingly challenging economy.
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By Richard Bell
In a wide-ranging interview from his home in Pictou, Central Nova MP Sean Fraser talked with the Cooperator Thursday, March 26 about working at home on developing the country’s economic response to the COVID-19 crisis, economic help for fishermen and other seasonal workers, and the guiding principle that the country’s households are “too big to fail.”
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By Stephen Richardson
Where are we now? Lobster fishing is an industry in crisis.
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By Richard Bell
In a bitter defeat for the HRM Planning Department and thousands of local residents, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (NSURB) issued two decisions on March 23 upholding two appeals by Lawrence Bellefontaine’s Kiann Management dealing with the handling of construction & demolition debris (C&D) on a 38-acre piece of land (PID 40740276) on Highway 7 in Porters Lake close to the Lake Echo border.
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[Editor's Note: Because of space limitations, we published this story in two pieces edited for length. This version is the complete story as submitted by the author.]
By Leslie Hauck
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By Richard Bell
In a show of province-wide opposition to the government’s controversial decision to sell Owls Head Provincial Park, 23 groups submitted a joint letter to Premier McNeil on Tuesday, March 10 calling on the government to do three things:
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By Richard Bell
The fight over the fate of Owls Head Provincial Park has taken a new turn with the appearance of signs supporting the building of golf courses, and a gathering of golf course supporters on March 8 at Webber’s Store in Lake Charlotte. Roughly 50 people showed up in response to an invitation from long-time boat builder Bob Rosborough, one of the founders of a new group called the Eastern Shore Economic Development Association (ESEDA). The invitation was intended for “Eastern Shore folks in Favour of the Lighthouse Links Golf Complex project,” and with a few exceptions, most of those in attendance favoured the project.
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The provincial office of Information Access and Privacy Services (IAS) has posted the results of three FOIPOP requests concerning Owls Head. After IAS has responded to a FOIPOP request, IAS then posts a copy of the response on a public website that anyone can download. All responses since April 1, 2018 are online.
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