This recipe is adapted from an Anthony Bourdain recipe – Serves 4
“Everyone should know how to roast a chicken. It's a life skill that should be taught to small children at school. The ability to properly prepare a moist yet thoroughly cooked bird, with nicely crisp skin, should be a hallmark of good citizenry—an obligation to your fellow man. Everyone walking down the street should be reasonably confident that the random person next to them is prepared, if called upon, to roast a chicken.”
~Anthony Bourdain
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By Richard Bell
MLA Kevin Murphy will be a critical player in the upcoming but still undefined site selection process for a new high school on the Eastern Shore. Back in 2014, Murphy proposed moving Eastern Shore District High, the skating rink, and the Birches Nursing Home from Musquodoboit Harbour to what he called a “campus” in the Eastern Shore Industrial Park in Chezzetcook. In an interview, Murphy reviewed the history of his “campus” proposal, and the potential for locating additional facilities and services at a new high school.
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By Richard Bell
Is the Twin Oaks Waste Water Treatment Plant polluting Petpeswick Inlet? The plant serves Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital, Eastern Shore District High, and the Birches nursing home.
John Woods has been on a long and twisting odyssey through urban and provincial bureaucracies trying to nail down hard evidence about the impact of the plant on the inlet. Woods, an engineer by trade, embarked on this voyage as the chair of the Infrastructure Committee of the Musquodoboit Harbour & Area Chamber of Commerce & Civic Affairs.
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By Jaime Bayers
“I could die on the way to the IWK,” says Kirstin Fahie, a seventeen-year-old girl with epilepsy from Sheet Harbour. The emergency room at Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital is one of several across Nova Scotia that has suffered a series of closures over the winter and spring because, in the words of the Nova Scotia Health Board, “of the unavailability of a physician to cover the shift.”
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By Richard Bell
“We’re all just in shock.”
Maggie Wade could not believe her ears. She and a few of her neighbors around Meisner’s Lake in Lower East Chezzetcook were attending a meeting on June 7 called by their MLA Kevin Murphy to talk face-to-face with Margaret Miller, the Minister of the Department of Natural Resources.
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By Marcus Brady
The last School Advisory Council (SAC) meeting for the 2017-18 school year took place featured special guest MLA Kevin Murphy responding to questions about the new high school for the Eastern Shore.
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By Richard Bell
If you’re planning on spending a day at the beach in Lawrencetown this summer, you’re going to need a very thick beach blanket. The view from the top of the boardwalk is desolate. The winter’s storms carried away almost all of the sand, leaving behind little but a steeply sloping pile of rocks.
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By Richard Bell
Lawrence Bellefontaine, the owner of Kiann Management, has re-launched his company’s highly controversial effort to get HRM to rezone a parcel of land on Highway 7 in Porters Lake to use as a construction & demolition debris recycling plant. (See “HRM Rejection Letter to Bellefontaine,” September 12, 2016,
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As Told by Harold Rowlings
[Editor’s Note: Back in 1977, in a rare act of civil disobedience, Harold Rowlings put his body on the line to stop a pipeline taking sewage from Eastern Shore District High straight into Petpeswick Inlet. The Cooperator interviewed Harold to get the story in his own words. The story begins after the failure of the high school’s septic field.]
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By Susanne Merrett
Anthony Bourdain was one of the most interesting humans on the planet. Besides being a consummate and wildly adventurous foodie, he was extraordinarily curious and empathetic about his fellows. His recent departure from our astral plane has left a deep and vast black hole, one that will not be easily filled.
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