By Richard Bell
The Seaforth community turned out at the Seaforth Community Hall on January 7 to celebrate the life and work of Gordon Stobbe, a new recipient of the Order of Canada in recognition of his decades of work as a fiddler and musician.
Read more
By Arnold Hughes and Donnie Lushington
[Editor's Note: This document is the full text of Hughes and Lushington's "An Open Letter to Our Local Communities." The Cooperator has a 600-word limit on stories, so we published an edited version of this letter in the December 2019 issue of the paper.]
Read more
Letter to the Editor
Falling Further Behind at Eastern Shore District High
The Superintendent of Schools for HRSB, Elwyn Leroux, has just announced that trucking of potable water to Eastern Shore District High will no longer be necessary, as newly drilled wells will shortly be connected to the school. This is certainly surprising, as engineering reports prepared for the Board clearly show that these wells cannot deliver a sufficient supply of water.
Read more
In the middle of a small village, in the center of a small province, lies a unique building: The Musquodoboit Valley Bicentennial Theatre. On a walk through the building’s many spaces with Treasurer Helen Jenson and Board Member Barbara Bell, I learned the ways in which a building can bring a community together.
Read more
Senator Tom McInnis and representatives from the ESLCS (Eastern Shore Lifestyles Centre Society) hosted a clinic on Saturday, November 18 on how to get something done in Nova Scotia.
At stake was the replacement of the Sheet Harbour Lions Community Centre, a four decades old building closed from November to April because of roof problems. The building is owned by HRM, which assessed the building and concluded that the hall is not safe to occupy during the winter months due to the potential weight of snow on the roof. Last spring, HRM Regional Council voted to include $2.5 million in the capital budget to replace the building.
Read more
In working on an event commemorating the effects of the Halifax Explosion on the people of the Eastern Shore, I have been struck by how often people have talked about the Explosion as if it were some kind of peacetime event, with no connection to WWI.
Read more
By Richard Bell
Barely a year after a launch party drew 150 bikers to the Hells Angles clubhouse in Musquodoboit Harbour, the Hells Angels have abandoned their clubhouse in following an RCMP raid than began in the early afternoon of November 1. All that remained on November 16 were some empty rooms and a dumpster in the parking lot filled with the debris from the raid.
Read more
Property owners in the Musquodoboit Harbour area are still waiting to vote on whether to keep a local area rate tax that brings in $10,000 per year to spend on community recreation needs.
Read more
We are pleased this month to bring you contributions from two students at Eastern Shore District High School, DJ Shuman and Marcus Brady. Many thanks to Principal Jen Murray and teacher Krystal McKenzie for their help in getting this effort off the ground. In the coming months, we are looking forward to hearing from students from Duncan Macmillan in Sheet Harbour and from Middle Musquodoboit Rural High School.
The days are getting colder, the nights darker, and everyone's thoughts are turning towards Christmas. The holiday season has changed considerably since I was a wee one. It has morphed and expanded from a week to almost two months, with stores and malls decked out and stocked up, and consumers all aglow.
Read more
