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Chamber Development Plan: Water, Sewers, and Sidewalks

By Richard Bell The Musquodoboit Harbour & Area Chamber of Commerce and Civic Affairs will soon be releasing the final draft of its Community Development Plan, put together by the Dartmouth-based urban design consulting firm of Ekistics Plan+Design

April 06, 2017

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Parents and Students Protest Teacher Firing in North Preston

By Richard Bell Students and parents in North Preston have been taking to the streets and the Internet to protest the unexpected firing of a beloved teacher at Nelson Whynder Elementary by the Halifax Regional School Board (HRSB). The teacher, Joida Tynes-Simons, has been teaching in and around North Preston for more than 30 years.

April 06, 2017

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Murphy Proposes Three School "Campus"

By Richard Bell The Eastern Shore District High school-replacement pot continues to simmer away. Over the last two years, the Community Campus Vision Association (CCVA) has succeeded in getting the Halifax Regional School Board to include replacing ESDH on its official list of recommendations to the province.

April 06, 2017

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New Moorings for Sheet Harbour

By Cathy Ferris Sheet Harbour will soon be a more attractive stop for recreational boaters with the installation of six new moorings this spring. There will be no mooring fees, and local boaters will have short-term access. Four private wharves will allow landings of boat tenders.

March 03, 2017

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Controversial Porters Lake Site Gets Development Permit

By Richard Bell Citizen protests forced Lawrence Bellefontaine to abandon his plans to build a construction & demolition recycling plant on Highway 7 in Porters Lake. But the Concerned Residents of Porters Lake, Lake Echo, Preston and Mineville Areas are just beginning to investigate HRM Planning’s granting of a permit for Bellefontaine to conduct a wide range of industrial activities on the site, as well as what HRM describes as his indication “that pitting/quarry activity is intended for the site.”

March 03, 2017

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Province Ignores School Board: No New Eastern Shore District High

By Richard Bell Education Minister Karen Casey’s late January announcement of plans to build a new high school in Spryfield dashed the dreams of proponents of replacing the aging Eastern Shore District High School (ESDH), the oldest high school in HRM. The announcement dramatically illustrated last fall’s critique of the department by the Auditor General.

March 03, 2017

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Do You Want to Pay Tolls on the 107?

Do you want to pay tolls to pay for twinning a portion of Highway 107? The Liberal government has already ranked imposing tolls on a twinning 107 as one of the most attractive of the eight highway twinning projects around the province. Your opportunity to let the Liberal government what you think about paying tolls is about to end. The article below is scheduled to appear in the March 2017 issue of the Cooperator. But because of the rapidly closing window to comment, we are publishing this article now on the Cooperator’s Facebook page and the Cooperator’s website.

February 22, 2017

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No more gas at Irving Gas

One of Musquodoboit Harbour’s most well-known markers, the Irving Gas Station sign, is gone, along with the station’s gas pumps, although the repair shop will stay open for business.

January 27, 2017

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Women, Trump, and Politics: Interview with MLA Lenore Zann

By Richard BellMLA Lenore Zann will be speaking at the Halifax rally on January 21st in support of the Women’s March on Washington. The following is an edited version of our conversation with Zann two weeks before the rally. “I had originally toyed with idea of going down to Washington, taking a bus with other Canadian women and taking part in the march. But when I heard there was going to be a rally in Halifax, I was happy to be able to be with my sisters here in Nova Scotia.

January 22, 2017

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Tough Choices on Gravel Road

By Richard Bell Gravel roads are slowly disappearing across rural Halifax, as HRM and the province pave their way outward from the city core. In December, District 2 Councillor David Hendsbee held an informational meeting on a proposal to pave 14 gravel roads (see list below).

January 22, 2017

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