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• Kennel Club hosts canine show
  AMHERST – This won’t be news to many of the area’s dog lovers: the Tantramar Kennel Club’s annual all-breed dog shows are taking place this ...
• Amherst hospital has new hearing test
  AMHERST – Emma Brown knows her newborn, Maxim, needs to see the audiologist at his office in the next couple of weeks. She knows this because her ...
• Nature Conservancy purchases more Pugwash land
  PUGWASH – It’s a lot of land. The announcement Tuesday of the purchase of 177 acres by the Nature Conservancy of Canada brings the total ...
• Station’s only tenant leaves
  AMHERST – The train station is empty. Hairstyles by Ryan closed its location at the heritage building April 26, relocating to the owner’s home on ...
• Donating saves lives
  AMHERST – Debbie Beal watched a loved one’s health deteriorate. Her brother, Jay Spencer, struggled to breathe. He spent five months in the ...
• Money for CCTS
  AMHERST – Cash is life for charities. A grant of $20,000 from the provincial government will make a significant difference to one local ...
• Prison camp researched
  AMHERST – John Cvitkovich had no idea. When Frank Jankac called the Springhill resident to tell him his great-grandfather had spent time in a ...
• Luncheon to benefit Autumn House
  AMHERST – What hats do you wear? Many of us wear many hats: colleague, friend, cook, cleaner, parent, disciplinarian. The different hats women ...
• Strong Kids launches
  AMHERST – It’s a simple but strong sentiment: Every kid deserves a chance. The YMCA’s annual Strong Kids campaign kicked off Feb. 15. It runs ...
• Price rounding starts today
  AMHERST – Today’s the day. The Mint will stop circulating pennies as of this date, Feb. 4. What will this mean for shoppers? “It is going to be a ...
• Curlers lie
  COLUMN: Take a Hike By Eric Sparling Hockey refs see it all. Just ask Greg Herrett. Amherst’s chief administrative officer agreed to meet ...
• A good news story
  AMHERST – When a store in Amherst closes, it makes the news. When a government office downsizes, headlines appear. And there’s a common response ...
• Wentworth school on chopping block
  WENTWORTH - Frustration is clashing with finances in Wentworth. The Wentworth Elementary School is one of a handful in the Chignecto-Central ...
• Changes to EI worry local business owner
  AMHERST – It’s a cold day. Bare hands are painful quickly. But Maureen Deegan is willing to stop long enough on Church Street to offer an opinion ...
• Mail to be sorted in Halifax
  AMHERST – It’s just a matter of time. Canada Post is centralizing its mail sorting. While mail sorting continues to be performed in Amherst, ...
• Santa season good to stores
  AMHERST – Retailers in Amherst have glad tidings for the Christmas season: some are reporting better sales than last year, while others said ...
• Weston and workers give big
  AMHERST – How much money would you expect 100 working people to raise for a charitable cause? Ten grand? How about 20? Employees of Weston ...
• Five Spring Street kids get six-month memberships
  AMHERST – Makayla Cooke has already decided how often she’ll use her new six-month YMCA. “Five hundred times,” said the enthusiastic girl. The ...
• Eating as one
  BROOKDALE – There’s turkey dinners and then there’s turkey dinners. More than 300 servings of the holiday favourite were enjoyed for lunch Friday ...
• History of conservative Christian group
  AMHERST – There’s value in variety. “Those who are different…I think we need to pay attention to them,” said author Eldon Hay. The retired ...
• Halloween’s historical roots
  SACKVILLE, NB – Halloween wasn’t always a horror-fest, according to Mount Allison University’s chaplain. Rev. John Perkin spoke with the Amherst ...
• Volunteers receive Maritimer of the Week recognition
  AMHERST – Parenting young children brings many joys. But it presents challenges, too, among them isolation. Isolation doesn’t describe the ...
• Street party draws interest
  AMHERST – A modest crowd gathered in Amherst’s core early in the afternoon Friday, despite overcast skies. “It’s a good idea,” said Melissa ...
• Downtown Amherst scene of Friday party
  AMHERST – It’s a clear goal. “We are determined to make downtown Amherst a destination,” said Michele LeBlanc. The business owner is the ...
• Business sets priorities moving forward
  AMHERST – Amherst Mayor Rob Small, came to a lunch meeting here Friday with a question. “Where (do) we want to go?” He posed the question ...
• A house divided
  MACCAN – A conflict has been brewing in Maccan. Donald White, former secretary-treasurer of the now-defunct Legion branch in the community, just ...
• Dr. Robot
  AMHERST – It’s the opposite of the Terminator. A neurosurgeon was in Amherst Wednesday, at the Cumberland Regional Health Centre, to demonstrate ...
• Four Fathers Fest begins Tuesday
  AMHERST - It's a time to celebrate all that's special about Amherst's heritage. "The Four Fathers Festival has developed into a month-long ...
• Early Intervention offices destroyed
  AMHERST – The destruction is almost total. “We are starting over,” said Erin Perry, executive director of the non-profit Cumberland Early ...
• Competing in the game of life (skills)
  OXFORD – Mike Griffin is inspecting the metalwork. “Very good…they’re using their head(s),” said Griffin, who owns A&M Fabrication. The ...