Author Archives: Kevin Northup
Fundy Rose Returns November 18th
The Fundy Rose is coming back soon. The Digby-Saint John ferry will resume sailings on November 18th. The vessel has been undergoing scheduled maintenance since mid-October. The first sailing is sched...
Nov 08, 2022
Dozens Help Rescue Dolphins In Digby
About 40 Digby residents helped a stranded pod of dolphins. Last Friday afternoon, a report came in to the Marine Animal Response Society that 16 dolphins were stuck in the mud near Joggins at low-tid...
Nov 08, 2022
Sipekne'katik First Nation Elects New Chief
The Sipekne'katik First Nation elected their first female chief. Michelle Glasgow won a tightly contested race by 18 votes on November 2nd She beat out former chief Mike Sack, who came in third behind...
Nov 08, 2022
Striking School Support Staff To Vote On Tentative Agreement
It looks like some school support workers will soon be back in the classroom. The local union that represents the workers says a tentative agreement has been reached with the Annapolis Valley Regional...
Nov 07, 2022
Local Sports Results: Nov 4-6
Nova Scotia Regional Junior Hockey League: The Southwest Storm split a pair of games in Barrington over the weekend. They beat Spryfield 4-1 yesterday, and lost a tight 5-4 contest to them Saturday. T...
Nov 07, 2022
Mariners Split Weekend Games, Honour Armed Forces
The Yarmouth Mariners salvaged a point in a 3-2 overtime loss to Truro Saturday night at Mariners Centre. The Mariners found the tying goal off the stick of Jerome Gilbert with three seconds left in t...
Nov 07, 2022
N.S. Music Week Coming Back To Yarmouth
Nova Scotia Music Week is bound for Yarmouth next year. The 2023 festival is coming back to our area for the first time since 2015. Fiona Diamond with Music Nova Scotia says they're looking forward to...
Nov 07, 2022
The Weekender: 100-Year-Old Yarmouth Veteran Reads 'In Flanders Fields'
In this week's episode, we present our Remembrance Day-themed program. One of our province's oldest living veterans resides in Yarmouth. 104-year-old Jim McRae joined the army when he was 23 years old...
Nov 06, 2022
Mariners 'Pink In The Rink' Raises Over Twelve-Thousand Dollars
A big donation from the Yarmouth Mariners to Yarmouth's cancer centre. Over 12-thousand dollars was raised through the 'Pink in the Rink' campaign. The team wore pink jerseys all through October, that...
Nov 04, 2022
'Adopt-A-Book' Campaign Reaches Twenty-Thousand Dollars
The Adopt-a-Book campaign is going well in the Tri-Counties. Over 20-thousand dollars has been raised, and 636 books have been adopted. The library's Ian White says they're getting closer to their goa...
Nov 04, 2022
