Category Archives: News
Eastlink Phone/Internet Service Down
A boom truck accidentally shut down the Eastlink phone and internet service in the Yarmouth area. The "third party" truck hooked a fibre line as it drove away, ripping up the line and causing the outa...
Jul 25, 2019
Harmony Bazaar Returns For 14th Year
A festival promoting women and song in Lockeport is back for its 14th year. Harmony Bazaar begins Friday with songwriter and youth vocal workshops during the daytime and music at Seacaps Memorial Park...
Jul 25, 2019
Mayor Says Small Towns Face Fiscal Challenges
The town of Shelburne has put a letter on its website and social media to let residents know of the fiscal challenges it faces. Mayor Karen Mattatall says the document, posted Tuesday, is to keep resi...
Jul 25, 2019 (Y95 News file photo)
Juniorpreneur Camp Students To Show Off Business Ideas In Alma Square
Young entrepreneurs from the Yarmouth area will be downtown tomorrow to show off what they've learned at a special camp. The youth have been participating in a Juniorpreneur Camp put on by the Centre ...
Jul 24, 2019
Wedgeport Legion Branch Remembers 'The Forgotten War'
The Royal Canadian Legion branch in Wedgeport will be commemorating the Korean War and three of its members this Saturday. The legion's living Korean War veterans, Nelson J. Deveau, Bob Garron and Les...
Jul 24, 2019 (Wedgeport Legion Korean War veterans (L to R) Leslie J. Muise, Bob Garron and Nelson J. Deveau
-photo courtesy of Branch 155)
High speed Internet Coming To More Of Digby County
Bernadette Jordan, federal Minister of Rural Economic Development, was in the Town of Digby Tuesday to announce funding to bring new or improved access to the area. "This is actually going to the Digb...
Jul 24, 2019 (Bernadette Jordan making announcement Tuesday in Digby-Twitter)
Red Cross Assists Those Displaced By Fire
One person was injured as result of an early morning fire on Alma Street in Yarmouth on Tuesday July 23. A woman from the second-storey apartment where the fire started required treatment at the scene...
Jul 24, 2019 (29-31 Alma Street building sustained fire, smoke and water damage. Y95 News photo)
Thieves Break Into Store And Guess What They Took ?
Two suspects who broke into a business in Lockeport didn't take much. Shelburne RCMP responded to the call at 2:30 last Friday morning, July 19. Police say two men entered the store, stole a large gar...
Jul 23, 2019
Police-Reported Crime Up 2% In 2018
Police-reported crime is up for the fourth year in a row in Canada but is still lower than a decade ago. A new report from Statistics Canada, released Monday, shows police-reported crime rose by two p...
Jul 23, 2019 (Submitted/ RCMP)
Panel Will Bring School Sport Safety Recommendations To Minister
An expert panel has been asked to advise Nova Scotia's Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development on safety in school sports. The 17-member panel will provide its expertise on ways to preve...
Jul 23, 2019 Park View Education Centre Football Team (file photo)
