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• Two local papers become one
  The time is right. Sometimes change is good, and the time has never been better for Cumberland County’s two weekly newspapers to merge ...
• Will majority government help this riding?
  For once, we can’t say a federal election provided no surprises. The polls were varied and hard to read going in to the May 2 vote, but ...
• No rush on wilderness areas
  Governments of all levels are often criticized for taking too long to study an issue before making a decision, and the issue of the ...
• Vote mobs an encouraging sign
  In the middle of a humdrum federal election campaign, we can thank groups of university students in various parts of the country for ...
• Coalition may be the only option
  Trying to pick a winner or a loser from Tuesday night's federal leaders' debate is not a clearcut business. None offered any "wow" ...
• More needed to stop bullying
  Tom Brown buried his daughter Sunday in Parrsboro. Pam Murchison did the same in Great Village in January. Both were teens, both were ...
• Time for a walk to the hospital
  Cumberland County Warden Keith Hunter thinks it is needed, but the county has no interest in paying for it. Cumberland North MLA Brian ...
• Higher N.B. prices offer small relief
  New Brunswick decided this week to raise taxes on such items as cigarettes and gasoline, bringing small relief to those retailers ...
• Green projects vs Alberta oil
  Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley MP Scott Armstrong told the Amherst Rotary Club recently that the northern region of Nova ...
• TV listings have returned
  You told us and we listened. After a two-week absence, the weekly TV listings are back in the Citizen, after many readers let us know how ...
• Changing the face of ERs
  When the NDP government pledged to keep emergency rooms open across Nova Scotia, it seemed like a lofty proposition, considering the ...
• To cancel school, or not to cancel?
  As has been reported, the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board is considering keeping schools open for students and staff after canceling bus ...
• The real benefit of an election
  Federal parliament just resumed this week, the budget is almost two months away, and election speculation has already grown tiresome. In ...
• Challenger, 25 years later
  Twenty-five years later, the images are no less horrifying. People around the world watched as seven astronauts met their death in the explosion ...
• Get with the program, Amherst
  It seems nothing riles up Cumberland County, especially our municipal politicians, like good old-fashioned trash talk. You can raise our ...
• What to make of cabinet shuffle?
  To call Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s mini cabinet shuffle this week a minor event is a bit of an understatement. The majority of ...
• Citizen awards handed out
  It’s that time of year again, when we pack away our Christmas trees and stockings, dust of our New Year’s party hats, and hand out the ...
• 2010 Year in Review
  JANUARY It is, apparently, an experience hard to explain, but worth repeating. Eight brave souls took part in the 2010 polar bear dip in the ...
• Year in Review - Parrsboro Area
  JANUARY After another year of ups and downs for Parrsboro, new mayor Lois Smith sat down for a year-end interview with the Citizen, speaking on ...
• That spirit of Christmas
  “Christmas is the time of year for being with the ones we love. Sharing so much joy and cheer... what a wonderful feeling.” Those words belong ...
• Following through on the sanctuary
  During the recent byelection campaign in Cumberland South, Progressive Conservative leader and candidate Jamie Baillie promised to take a stand ...
• Where is our statesman?
  A small, 176-word press release from the prime minister’s office this week showed exactly why Stephen Harper has been mired in minority ...
• Endless bickering must stop
  Pugwash’s village commission finds itself under siege once again from a group of residents who remain upset they aren’t getting the same ...
• Defining our role in Afghanistan
  The Canadian government’s decision to keep troops in Afghanistan for three more years past the previous deadline of 2011 appears to make ...
• Nov. 11 more than a day off
  November 11 may be a day off work for many of us, but it is not a holiday. Remembrance Day is a solemn occasion to admire, respect and honour ...
• Seasonal workers deserve better
  The federal government may have temporarily eased the worries of many seasonal workers in the region by extending EI pilot programs that, among ...
• Baillie’s work is just beginning
  Jamie Baillie’s relatively easy victory in the Cumberland South byelection tells us a few things. First, voters were not as concerned by the ...
• New museum an example of co-operative tourism
  It has been said a lot over the years, but there has seldom been a lot of action to back up the words. As the local tourism industry fights to ...
• County needs one Junior C team
  It seems the rivalry between the Oxford Colts and the Fundy Phantoms exists more off the ice than it does on. Both seem to think there ...
• No debate for Cumberland South?
  For the second time in barely a year, voters in Cumberland South are heading to the polls, and for the second straight time it appears ...