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Learning on the Campaign Trail: Gail McQuarrie

By Richard Bell In political campaigns, no one’s in a better position to learn more from the experience than the candidate. A week after the election, we talked with Gail McQuarrie to get her reflections on her second campaign for office, and to talk about her future plans.

November 12, 2016

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Chamber Announces Award Winners

By Richard Bell The Musquodoboit Harbour & Area Chamber of Commerce & Civic Affairs (MHACCCA) held its inaugural “Business Excellence Awards Dinner” at the Petpeswick Yacht Club on October 22. A number of local business, including this newspaper, provided extra support for the evening as sponsors.

November 12, 2016

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Getting Bats Back in the Belfry

By Cassie Piccolo If you thought there were more black flies and mosquitoes around this summer, you can blame the white-nose syndrome, a deadly fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) that has killed almost all the bats in Nova Scotia. And with a single little brown bat eating up to 1,000 mosquitoes an hour, that’s a lot more mosquitoes in our backyards! This summer’s surprise discovery of a healthy colony in southern Nova Scotia offered at least a small ray of hope that bats might eventually make a comeback.

November 12, 2016

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Kiann Managements Starts Cleaning Up C&D Site

By Richard Bell Kiann Management has begun work to comply with a litter order from the provincial Department of the Environment (DOE) to remove certain materials from its controversial site on Highway 7 in Porters Lake by a January deadline.

November 12, 2016

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Incumbents Win Along the Shore: Turnout Drops

David Hendsbee and his wife Susan welcome news of his re-election. Richard Bell (This article was revised at 10:00 am October 16 with the complete unofficial results for City Council and School Board. Returns for the other two races remain incomplete at this time.). In an election in which turnout dropped to a miserable 31.7% of the vote, there were no surprises on election night on the Eastern Shore, with wins for District 2 incumbent David Hendsbee and School Board District 1 incumbent Bridget Boutlier. (Turnout in 2012 was 38.7%). In District 2, David Hendsbee (3262) won his first re-election race in the expanded district with almost 50% of the vote. Gail McQuarrie (1980) finished in 2nd place again, followed by Shelley Fashan (1090) and Sydnee McKay (242).

October 16, 2016

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Sept 25 Chamber of Commerce District 2 Candidate Forum videos

This document contains links to videos of the District 2 Council Candidates forum on September 25 in Musquodoboit Harbour. The Musquodoboit Harbour & Area Chamber of Commerce & Civic Affairs sponsored this forum. Three of the four candidates were present. Sydnee McKay was unable to attend, but sent a statement that a Chamber member read in the Opening Statements section. The moderator changed the order for answering each question, and the answers below follow that order. We know that people are busy, and may not have time to sit down and listen to a single video of an entire 90-minute debate. There is a separate video for each question, so you can mix and match to your heart's content. You can listen to all the answers from a single candidate, or only listen to the question or questions you're most interested in. We hope this format makes it easier for you to focus on what you want to know about the candidates for the District 2 Council seat.

October 11, 2016

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Murphy Announces Porters Lake Park Funding

October 06, 2016

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Answers for the Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincal Representative

We asked candidates for the Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincal Representative to tell us about their background and to answer a question about the École Beaux Marais. They had the option of answering in English and French. According to the Nova Scotia School Board Association, candidates for the Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincial (CSAP) must: “ be an entitled person as defined in the Education Act. This includes an individual: whose first language learned and still understood is French; who received Canadian primary school instruction in a French first-language program; who is the parent of a child who is receiving/received Canadian primary or secondary school instruction in a French first language program.”

September 30, 2016

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Nova Scotia Fights Swedish Lobster Ban Bid

In a move that would severely impact Nova Scotia’s lobster industry, Sweden has asked the European Union to ban the import of all U.S. and Canadian lobsters (homarus americanus). Sweden claims that the imported lobsters are an invasive species that threatens the smaller European lobster (homarus gammarus).

September 03, 2016

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Opposition to Frontage Bylaw Growing Rapidly

HRM’s planners have stirred up a hornet’s nest of opposition with their surprise decision this spring to begin denying building permits for certain rural lots, citing a regulation that had been on the books since 1996 but never enforced. The regulation requires that a building lot, regardless of size, have at least 100 feet of frontage on a public road. For many years, the department routinely issued permits for lots without such frontage. And the department now claims that each and every one of those nine decisions was a mistake.

September 03, 2016

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