Profile of Dave Mathieson

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• Tensions flare up at fire meeting
  AMHERST – Landlords and tenants don’t always see eye to eye, and yesterday was no exception. Only one day after his building was demolished ...
• Ramblers battle for place on roster at training camp
  AMHERST – The Maritime Hockey League Amherst Ramblers hit the ice yesterday with their first day of training camp. “We had 32 people,” said Jim ...
• Firefighters continue to battle fire at Victoria...
  Update: 1:15 p.m. AMHERST – The Amherst Police Department has relocated because of last night's fire in the downtown. The department relocated to ...
• Love of cars on display this Saturday in River Hebert
  RIVER HEBERT – Automobiles revolutionized the way mankind lives and interacts with one another and their modes of transportation, and many cars ...
• Pugwash soars to new heights on TSN’s SportsCentre
  PUGWASH – The singing of Oh Canada by thousands of people in Eaton Park in Pugwash while the sun set on the horizon is an ending to TSN’s ...
• Interview with TSN's Onrait and O'Toole
  PUGWASH – After writing up the script for the SportCentre broadcast in Pugwash Monday afternoon, Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole granted an interview ...
• TSN SportsCentre broadcasts live from Pugwash tonight
  PUGWASH – The stage is being set up today for the arrival of TSN’s Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole, who will be in Pugwash for the Kraft Celebration ...
• Protesting Dr. Fynn’s dismissal
  AMHERST – Former patients of Dr. John Fynn have banded together to protest the Nova Scotia College of Physicians and Surgeons decision to revoke ...
• Amherst Police receive few complaints of dogs...
  AMHERST – People seem to be getting the message that it’s a bad idea to keep a dog in a parked car on a hot day. “From June 1 to today we’ve had ...
• Skate park graffiti quickly covered up by the Town...
  AMHERST – The question for most people wasn’t if, but when. That question was answered this week when the Amherst Lions Skate Park was spray ...
• NBA-drafted player teaches basketball fundamentals...
  AMHERST – Confidence breeds competence, and competence breeds good basketball players. “What separates one kid from another are details,” said ...
• Results from Special Olympics provincial Summer Games
  ANTIGONISH – Cumberland County Athletes recently competed in the 2012 Special Olympics Nova Scotia Summer Games at St. FX University in ...
• Mixers, Cubs dominate Monday night Little League
  AMHERST – The Casey Concrete Mixers doubled the Lions 14-7, and the Cumberland Paving Cubs trounced the Y’s Guys 28-8 during Amherst Little ...
• Fighting obesity an uphill battle in Cumberland County
  AMHERST – Cumberland County residents need to hop over some high hurdles if they hope to lower their second-place ranking for obesity in Canada. ...
• County takes on town in wind turbine moratorium
  UPPER NAPPAN – A letter writing battle has broken out between the Town of Amherst and the Municipality of Cumberland County regarding a ...
• Cumberland County second most obese region in Canada
  AMHERST – Cumberland County has been recognized by Maclean’s magazine as the second fattest region in Canada. “That’s interesting,” said Ann ...
• Parsons captures 2012 Midget Girls Golf Championship
  AMHERST – Northumberland Links junior golfer Elizabeth Parsons came back from a three-shot deficit after the first round to win the 2012 Nova ...
• TSN voting starts Thursday for Pugwash
  PUGWASH - Crack your fingers, stretch your arms and fill up the coffee mug because, come Thursday, it will be time for residents of Cumberland ...
• Easy access granted for Pugwash wind farm by county...
  UPPER NAPPAN – A roadblock towards building the Pugwash wind farm was removed during Cumberland County Council’s regular meeting Wednesday at the ...
• Building confidence key to developing love of the game
  AMHERST – Girl basketball players hoping to improve their game attended the five-day Vikettes basketball camp this week at Amherst Regional High ...
• Girl power making inroads into highland games
  PUGWASH – Trying to launch cabers and balls and chains through the air can be intimidating for women, but it can also be fun. “The first time I ...
• Family escapes out back window of burning house
  AMHERST – A young family narrowly escaped from their burning house early Monday morning on Fillmore Street in Amherst. Their neighbor, Sandra ...
• Springhill High School graduates told to ‘never...
  SPRINGHILL – Springhill High School graduated the class of 2012 Thursday night at the Dr. Carson & Marion Community Centre in Springhill. The ...
• Linney, Estabrooks breeze through Longest Day of Golf
  AMHERST - Hitting a golf ball more than 1,000 times in one day would be enough to turn most people off the game of golf for good - but Amherst's ...
• Ferocious Fiero on display at Cumberland Car Show
  MACCAN – A total of 6,849 Pontiac Fiero GT’s rolled off the assembly line in Pontiac Michigan in 1988 and one of those cars is owned by Maccan’s ...
• Learning my lesson one step at a time
  AMHERST – Some assignments provide a great learning experience, and on Monday I learned I’m a wimp. My 8 a.m. assignment was to climb, rung by ...
• Truck destroyed by fire was heading to scrap heap
  AMHERST – The Amherst Fire Department responded to a vehicle that caught fire Sunday at 2 p.m. on Myrtle Street in Amherst. The 1993 Dodge pickup ...
• West Highlands purchase new skates, helmets with...
  AMHERST – The ice-skating program at West Highlands Elementary School just got $500 richer. The school won a sporting goods contest carried ...
• New Crime Prevention Officer walking the beat
  AMHERST – The Amherst Police Department has appointed a new Crime Prevention Officer. The reigns have been passed to Tom Wood after Francis Smith ...
• Springhill police helped by RCMP at “out of...
  SPRINGHILL – In what the Springhill Police Department are calling an “out of control house party,” six people were arrested for criminal code ...