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Ninety-nine-year-old Hazel Johnson thanked her fellow graduates and Bridgetown Regional Community School for presenting her with an honourary graduation certificate June 28. She was denied the rest of her education in the 1930s when in Grade 11 the school changed textbooks and her father was unable to afford the cost of the new ones.

99-Year-Old Graduate - Annapolis Valley woman still learning after she was denied ...

Annapolis West Education Centre graduated 37 Grade 12s in an afternoon ceremony June 27 that saw a packed gym, numerous awards and bursaries handed out, a few brief speeches, and mortar board caps thrown in the air. The Queen Elizabeth II Medal went to Grace-Lyn Longmire while the Governor General Medal recipient was Abigail Bonnington.

All Done! - Annapolis West graduates 37 with Longmire, Bonnington taking top ...

Sandy Murray, left, and Kelsey Nogler are partners in Training for Life, a new holistic training facility that focuses on wellness and functional aging for seniors and women but is open to all. If you feel anxious or intimidated in a normal gym setting, they’ve created an atmosphere in their small facility at 68 Victoria Street in Middleton that feels more like home.

Training for Life - New Middleton facility inclusive for those with barriers ...

Graduating students at Bridgetown Regional Community School held their prom at the new school June 26, but before being introduced in front of the school for their final dance, couples gathered at Ellenhurst in Paradise, the estate of David and Linda Hankinson where they took photos in the lush gardens beside the Annapolis River and under giant oaks. Students posed as couples, with friends, with family and in group shots.

Pictures in Paradise - Bridgetown students dressed to the nines for school’s ...

RCMP officer accused of sexual assault in Auburn changes court election following ...

They had tea and cookies and sandwiches and looked through mountains of historical information, photos, maps, and other information during a show-and-tell day at the Paradise Community Hall May 26 hosted by the new Paradise Historical Society.

Living in Paradise - New historical society formed to preserve community’s rich ...

Middleton Regional High School art teacher Peter Crouse sits amid paintings by his students. He was helping hang the student exhibition New Perspectives at Macdonald Museum in Middleton recently. The show opens May 24 and includes art and artist statements from Bridgetown and Middleton high school students.

New Perspectives - Middleton and Bridgetown students collaborate on art exhibition

While the Middleton girls lost the final to Barrington in Western Region Division 3 Girls Softball play, the MRHS squad also heads to provincials by virtue of their second-place showing at regionals May 25 and 26 in Kingston.

Barrington takes banners, Middleton girls take second place in softball regionals for ...

After a year of recording and trips back and forth to Nashville, Nova Scotia country band Witchitaw is holding a CD release concert for their third album, The Ride, in Victoria Park. The concert will be free to attend and kicks off at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 10. From left are members Terry Salsman, Jason Spinney, Dohn Kendall and Jamie Spinney.

Country band Witchitaw to release CD with performance in Truro’s Victoria Park

Luke den Haan stands amid the plants in his bustling greenhouse.

Agriculture minister, Lawrencetown farmer see how greenhouse farming in Holland is changing ...

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Conditions imposed on release of former Canning man serving federal sentence for property, identity theft crimes

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Construction on the new RCMP headquarters in New Minas is progressing with interior wall framing nearing completion and rough-ins for mechanical and electrical systems now being built.

Progress continues on new RCMP headquarters under construction in New Minas

Published Jul 17, 2018 at 2:43 p.m.

Trudeau took questions on a variety of subjects after announcing money for highway twinning including one about whether the federal government would step in to do an environmental assessment of Northern Pulp's proposed effluent treatment facility.

Trudeau leaving Northern Pulp’s Northumberland Strait pipe plans to provincial jurisdiction

Updated Jul 17, 2018 at 3:36 p.m.

Meth, ecstacy both seized at RCMP traffic stop in Lakeville

Updated Jul 17, 2018 at 3:32 p.m.

Justin Trudeau speaks during a funding announcement at the East Pictou Middle School on Tuesday. The federal government will contribute $90 million towards twinning a section of the 104 between Sutherland's River and Antigonish.

Trudeau announces funding to twin highway from Sutherland's River to Antigonish

Adam MacInnis
Updated Jul 17, 2018 at 3:13 p.m.

SUTHERLAND'S RIVER, N.S. The deadly section of undivided highway between Sutherland’s River and Antigonish will be twinned sooner than initially projected. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined Premier Stephen McNeil at the East Pictou ...

Cumberland-Colchester MP Bill Casey (centre) talks to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and genealogist Stephen White from the University of Moncton at Beaubassin on Monday. White presented the prime minister a copy of the baptismal record of a Trudeau ancestor.

Trudeau visits Beaubassin national historic site

Darrell Cole
Updated Jul 17, 2018 at 2:09 p.m.

AMHERST, N.S. – One of Canada’s newest historical sites had a special visitor July 16. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a brief stop at the Beaubassin National Historic Site to tour the former Acadian village and learn a ...

Trudeau sent a stronger than usual message as he alluded the near-trade war Canada and the United States are currently embroiled in. "We're standing up for Canada," he said.

PM to pledge cash for Highway 104 twinning

Andrea Gunn
Updated Jul 17, 2018 at 1:12 p.m.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce $90 million in funding for twinning part of Highway 104, The Chronicle Herald and SaltWire Network has learned. A Liberal source confirmed on Monday that Trudeau, who will be joined by Premier ...

Lawrence Moody uses a power washer to blast away graffiti on the back wall of the Annapolis East Elementary School in Middleton July 16. He and Cheryl Nogler, school custodial staff, spent the entire day getting rid of 52 separate instances of graffiti on the school walls.

Middleton school, park tagged with vulgarities, pentagram, swastika

Lawrence Powell
Updated Jul 16, 2018 at 11:48 p.m.

MIDDLETON, NS - The graffiti artist who spray-painted a disparaging remark about the police on the concrete entrance of Annapolis East Elementary School on the weekend only had to look up to see the surveillance camera. When the police showed up ...

Possible salmonella contamination: Europe's Best brand Field Berry Mix recalled

The Spectator
Published Jul 16, 2018 at 10:31 a.m.

Concerns about potential salmonella contaminations have prompted a recall of Europe's Best brand Field Berry Mixes. The recall issued by The Canadian Food Inspection Agency July 13 pertains to 600 g and 2 kg packages of the frozen fruit. The ...

Shelley Morse has decided to step down as vice-principal from Aldershot Elementary School due to changes affecting administrators. Chief among them, she says, is their removal from the NSTU, announced by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development March 1.

Shelley Morse elected VP of national teaching organization

Sara Ericsson
Updated Jul 13, 2018 at 4:28 p.m.

Shelley Morse has been elected vice-president of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation. ...

Annapolis RCMP Crime Report looks at the weekly calls for service police answer.

Upper Granville man faces child pornography charges

Lawrence Powell
Updated Jul 13, 2018 at 11:25 a.m.

UPPER GRANVILLE, NS - A 29-year-old man is facing child pornography charges after the RCMP searched a home in Upper Granville. On July 12 the RCMP Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit executed a search warrant at the home and arrested ...

Firefighters from Annapolis Royal and Bridgetown, RCMP, a Cormorant helicopter from 14 Wing Greenwood, and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax were all involved in a search of the shore near Phinneys Cove on the Bay of Fundy after an empty kayak was spotted drifting offshore.

Empty kayak adrift on Bay of Fundy sparks Cormorant, Zodiac search

Lawrence Powell
Updated Jul 12, 2018 at 4:55 p.m.

PHINNEYS COVE, NS - The Annapolis Royal Water Rescue Unit and a Cormorant helicopter from 14 Wing Greenwood responded to a report of an overturned canoe adrift in the Bay of Fundy early on July 12, but no occupant was found. “About 8:40 this ...

West Hants council to commemorate Halifax Pride by flying rainbow flag for first time

Carole Morris-Underhill
Updated Jul 11, 2018 at 3:58 p.m.

WENTWORTH CREEK, N.S. — A brightly-coloured rainbow flag will soon be hoisted outside the West Hants municipal office building to honour Pride Week. ...

RCMP officers look on as forensic investigators work behind a Sheffield Mills house where a woman's body was found early Wednesday morning.

Developing Investigation ongoing as human remains found in Sheffield Mills

Sara Ericsson
Updated Jul 12, 2018 at 10:10 a.m.

An RCMP investigation is ongoing near a Sheffield Mills home after human remains were discovered there earlier today. ...

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