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Confusion Reigns Over Fall School Bus Plans

By Richard Bell How would you like to have your first-grader walking to school in the snow along Highway 7 in Porters Lake?

July 30, 2018

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Musquodoboit Harbour Chamber Hard at Work

By DJ Shuman The Musquodoboit Harbour and Area Chamber of Commerce and Civic Affairs has been hard at work on projects to make the area better and fulfil the short-term goals of its Community Development Plan. The big news is a $25,000 grant for a streetscape and beautificaiton campaign from the Department of Municipal Affairs, which will be matched by another $25,000 from the local area rate fund. Be on the lookout for pole-banners, planters, refurbished benches, and more coming to our streets!

July 30, 2018

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Changing of the Guard

One of the great pleasures of editing this newspaper has been the opportunity to learn about the interests and concerns of the Shore’s younger writers. This issue contains the last stories for this academic year from two students from Eastern Shore District High, DJ Shuman and Marcus Brady.

June 28, 2018

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Q&A with MLA Kevin Murphy On the New High School

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.

June 28, 2018

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Who's Polluting Petpeswick Inlet?

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.

June 28, 2018

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ER Closures Hit Home In Sheet Harbour 

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.”

June 28, 2018

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Homeowners Upset with DNR Buck-Passing on Meisner’s Lake

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.

June 28, 2018

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ESDH SAC Meeting Focuses on New High School

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.

June 28, 2018

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DNR: No Sand for Lawrencetown

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.

June 28, 2018

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Child Safety: From Point A to Point B

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.

June 21, 2018

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