GIVING BACK: Roachvale native Mackenzie Cook is setting up her family practice at Guysborough Memorial Hospital and working shifts in the emergency department. It’s part of a lifelong desire, she said, to help people. See story in this week's edition.
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Residents file appeal of development agreement decision
By Corey LeBlanc
WEST RIVER – A public hearing has been tentatively scheduled regarding an appeal of a development agreement approved by council for the Municipality of the County of Antigonish that paves the way for construction of a 40- to 60-unit apartment complex on Church Street Extension
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GIVING BACK: Roachvale native Mackenzie Cook is setting up her family practice at Guysborough Memorial Hospital and working shifts in the emergency department. It’s part of a lifelong desire, she said, to help people. See story in this week's edition.
By Corey LeBlanc
October 14 2026
WEST RIVER – A public hearing has been tentatively scheduled regarding an appeal of a development agreement approved by council for the Municipality of the County of Antigonish that paves the way for construction of a 40- to 60-unit apartment complex on Church Street Extension READ MORE
By Corey LeBlanc
ANTIGONISH – An early-morning electrical fire in late September continues to have a lingering effect on users of the ice surfaces at StFX’s Keating Centre. READ MORE
By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
CANSO – Maritime Launch Services (MLS) says it is on track to hand over a designated launch pad area to German rocket company Isar Aerospace by Nov. 1, clearing the way for an estimated $142-million Canadian investment in its own launch complex at Spaceport Nova Scotia. READ MORE
By Kyle C. Jordan
GUYSBOROUGH – It took a few turns through university before finding the kind of health care she wanted to practise, but once Mackenzie Cook settled on family medicine, there was little question where she wanted to work.
SUBSCRIBEBy Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
COUNTRY HARBOUR – For Canadians, no animal is more deeply etched into the national psyche than the mighty moose: imposing yet unassuming; mild-mannered yet formidable. But to Andrea Jenkins of Country Harbour, the hulking beast her family’s trail camera captured late last month might as well have been a unicorn.
SUBSCRIBEBy Bruce MacDonald
GUYSBOROUGH – The above lines from Laurence Binyon’s September 1914 poem “For the Fallen” are familiar to many who attend Remembrance Day ceremonies across Canada. While we pause to remember the service and sacrifice of our community’s veterans on Nov. 11, an organization established more than a century ago cares for the graves of those who died in the two world wars throughout the year.
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By Corey LeBlanc
ANTIGONISH – A sign draped from a top-floor window of a student rental property here over StFX homecoming weekend has not only led to the launch of the university’s disciplinary process but also sparked broader conversations regarding rape culture and gender-based violence, including the need for continuing and increased education. READ MORE
By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
EASTERN SHORE – An Australian gold mining company that once had interests in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and its home country now says its future lies on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. READ MORE
By Kyle C. Jordan
MULGRAVE – The ongoing saga of farm animals within Mulgrave town limits may not quite have nine lives, but it surfaced once again with the return of pigs to one resident’s property along Main St., prompting another round of complaints from residents. READ MORE
By Corey LeBlanc
ST. ANDREWS – It is the time of year when many families adorn their properties with fall decorations, including bright orange pumpkins. But it is safe to say few – if any – greet visitors and drivers with a more than 900-pound gourd, which the Stewart family from here will be doing for a second consecutive season. READ MORE
By Alec Bruce
LINCOLNVILLE – He was 38 years old, a man from Sunnyville who had traded the fortifications of Halifax harbour for the battlefields of Italy, when the Germans came at him on a railway embankment south of Potenza on the morning of Sept. 20, 1943. READ MORE
By Alec Bruce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
POINT TUPPER – EverWind Fuels, the proponent of major wind energy projects in Guysborough and Antigonish counties, says it is exploring the possibility of hosting a data centre at its existing Point Tupper property. But it has not disclosed details about the potential facility’s size, intended use, cost, electricity source, construction timetable, prospective employment or partners. READ MORE
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