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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By Jaime Bayers
On June 21, Porters Lake was packed with members of the Eastern Shore Family Resource Centre, the RCMP, members of the Child Safety Link, and plenty of volunteers, all coming together to promote child safety. The roadside event focused on strategies to keep a child safe in a vehicle, and attracted many new families and grandparents who all wanted to learn about the safest way to get their kid from point A to point B.
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By Jill Bellefontaine
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Porters Lake/Lake Echo forest fire that broke out on June 13th, 2008. The fire burned for approximately three days while over 50 agencies including HRFES, RCMP, and DNR engaged in response in one way or another. High winds and lack of humidity made the jobs of 158 firefighters, helicopters, and water bombers extremely difficult.
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By: Jill Bellefontaine
On Saturday, June 2nd, well over 150 people gathered in the pouring down rain at 8am to cast their lines at the sound of a horn that indicated the start of the 23rd Annual Sheet Harbour and Area Ground Search and Rescue Fishing Derby at Marshall Falls Flowage. Within one minute of the horn sounding, multiple people were reeling in their first catch of the day. The rain let off slowly as the day went on, bringing out even more people to join in on the fun.
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