Posted by
Rcb Bell · November 03, 2022 4:05 PM
In a recent interview the CEO of Emera, Scott Balfour, claims he is worried about “the investment climate here in Nova Scotia” due to the Premier's decision to limit electricity rate increases at 1.8% over the next two years.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · November 03, 2022 4:03 PM
By Dee Dwyer
On a sunny warm October afternoon, I sat down with Kateryna Kharchuk, who now lives in West Jeddore, to hear her story of leaving war-torn Ukraine and coming to Canada and the Eastern Shore.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · November 01, 2022 4:47 PM
By Linda Verlinden
The Eastern Shore’s Musquodoboit Harbour and area is fortunate to be home to Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital and The Birches. These healthcare facilities are very important to the area’s residents. The Birches, built in 1979, has 42 long term care beds. Twin Oaks Hospital (replaced in 1979) has 14 beds and a very busy out patient department.Most families in the facilities’ catchment area have been touched by the Twin Oaks and the Birches in some way.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · October 31, 2022 3:56 PM
By Karen Bradley
Everyone on social media knows the pleas for local housing: from an apartment that went from $650 to $1950 with no apparent upgrades to single moms looking for anything at all, yard or not, for herself and 3 children to a young person couch-surfing and hoping for even a tiny basement apartment.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · October 30, 2022 10:36 PM
By Karen Bradley
When the Halifax Regional Municipality came into being in 1996, many in the villages and enclaves of the Eastern Shore and Musquodoboit Valley were rightly concerned about an additional third layer of bureaucracy. The small communities had organized their own municipal concerns; the Halifax government had to manage urban, suburban, and rural issues.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · October 30, 2022 4:11 PM
MusGo Rider cars and vans are a familiar sight along the Eastern Shore. They can be seen driving clients to medical appointments, work, training, errands, or grocery shopping. The service is available to anyone who lives in the communities. For those with cost as a barrier, there are fare reduction programs.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · October 29, 2022 4:15 PM
Did you know?
November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and this year is the 100th anniversary of the revolutionary and life-saving discovery of insulin. Diabetes occurs when your body doesn't make enough insulin or can't use it as well as it should.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · October 26, 2022 4:20 PM
Send in Your Offshore Wind Comments
The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada is working on a Regional Assessment of Offshore Wind Development in Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia.
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Posted by
Rcb Bell · October 20, 2022 4:30 PM
Former Senator Tom McInnis addressing a Sheet Harbour Marina Association fundraising banquet and auction on October 22, 2022 at the Lions Centre. The Association has already bought the East River Marina and is working towards renovating the wharf and the surrounding area. The goal is to offer boaters the only full-service marina on the 374km stretch between Halifax and the town of Guysborough
Posted by
Rcb Bell · October 06, 2022 3:01 PM
Doug and Emmy Bezanson back from September’s annual Terry Fox Run at the Musquodoboit Harbour Railway Museum. For more info on contributing, go to https://www.terryfox.org.
