By Mary Elizabeth O’Toole
The movement towards sustainable living and renewable energy is encouraging people to rethink the way they build and live.
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By Richard Bell
Four days after the March 20thfull moon, a combination of high waves hitting at high tide has opened a new breach in the berm in Lower East Chezzetcook, allowing the fresh water Meisner’s Lake to once again drain out into the ocean, leaving nothing but gasping fish and wide sand-and-mud flats at low tide.
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By Allan Banks
We are very pleased and honoured to announce that the award winning Canadian website International Daylily Garden of the Week featured our gardens starting Saturday, March 2nd. Every year daylily gardens from around the world are featured on this website weekly from December to March (although the posting is up all year).
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By Richard Bell
“It’s the longest trip I’ve ever been on,” said Peter Connors of his trip to Hobart, Tasmania with a delegation led by Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Keith Colwell. In a recent interview, Connors talked about his experience on the trip. Thus far, Colwell’s office has not released any comments about the trip, although Colwell did sign a memorandum of understanding with the Tasmanian Minister for Primary Industries and Water.
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By Karen Bradley
The Old School Community Gathering Place in Musquodoboit Harbour has been open for almost ten years now, thanks to a combination of community will, great volunteers, and recently, funding from a number of sources: the federal government, the Province, HRM project grants, and the United Way.
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By Heather Murphy
To friends and family; where to begin ...Well, by now most of you have heard about Oliver's passing and are coming to grips with your own grief in the loss of one of the finest gentlemen ever.
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By Mackenzie Myatt
=Dragon boats are coming to Porters Lake this summer, thanks to Trevor Marshall and Jason MacKenzie’s company, Narrows 9 Dragons.
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By Alanna Jones
After two days of boiling sap straight through the night and trudging through three feet of snow in the woods on the side of a mountain, Danny Lemmon is bushed. He and his partner Kathy Spearing, along with son Daniel, have traveled from Upper Musquodoboit to tap 2000 trees in Bass River, NS.
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Letter to the editor
The Clipper Gallery held a silent auction on Saturday, March 9that the Old School Gathering Place, Musquodoboit Harbour. This event was held to raise bursary funds to assist an Eastern Shore District High School student in attending NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) in the fall of 2019. Student applications will be accepted in the spring, and the successful applicant will receive $1000. The event raised almost $1500. The remainder will be held over and added to the proceeds of the 2020 event.
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By Richard Bell
Opponents of the proposed Eastern Shore Islands Marine Protected Area were out in force again at the latest public meeting of the Association of Eastern Shore Communities Protecting Environment and Historical Access (AESC-PEHA) at the Sheet Harbour Legion on Saturday, March 16.
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