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Developer Ed Farren with Annapolis County Timothy Habinski during an announcement Dec. 8 that Gordonstoun Schools Limited of Elgin, Scotland has granted Farren a franchise to create Gordonstoun Nova Scotia. Gordonstoun is considered the top international private boarding school in the world.

Mutual ethos and historic connection - ‘Gordonstoun reflects our ...

Phantom Effects Special Effects in Kentville will be holding a series of eight-week workshops whereby participants go through all the phases of character conceptualization and prosthetic application, including design, sculpture, formulation of foam latex and gelatin, as well as applying prosthetic pieces, blending and coloring techniques. Here, co-owner Aaron Peerless is pictured doing what he does best.

Learn to create a creature with Kentville’s Phantom Effects

Emergency responders attend to the scene after a woman was struck by a vehicle on Water Street on Dec. 11.

Pedestrian struck by car in downtown Windsor

About $20.5 million in federal funding for energy efficiency upgrades at CFB Greenwood was announced Dec. 7. The upgrades are expected to lower annual costs by $900,000 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 7,500 tonnes per year. - photo contributed by CFB Greenwood.

14 Wing Greenwood receives millions from Ottawa for energy efficiency ...

Laughter filled the room as the Greenwood Players Theatre Group entertained a captivated audience with a showing of Beauty and the Beast Dec. 9.

Greenwood Players delight with Beauty and the Beast

An RCMP cruiser and EHS ambulance sit outside the emergency department at Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville on Tuesday morning. Police would not immediately confirm reports that a suspect was taken there for treatment after a standoff along Highway 101 at Berwick. - Ian Fairclough

VIDEO: One suspect injured, two arrested after gun fired at Berwick ...

A Lawrencetown woman is dead after a head-on car crash in Brickton Dec. 4.

Brickton Highway 1 crash claims life of Lawrencetown woman

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

Never a dull moment - Annapolis District RCMP deal with impaired ...

Amanda Steadman, Mary Ellen Lonergan, Karen Alcoe-Guest, Marie Roland and Kendra Balcom are among the members of a lottery pool at Berwick Family Dentistry sharing a $100,000 prize.

Berwick Family Dentistry lotto pool members have 100,000 reasons to ...

Check out the lights from your area and around Atlantic Canada below! - 123RF photo

2018 Christmas Lights map

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The fishing dragger Angela O steams into port at the Dennis Point wharf on Nov. 14 with the crew of the Atlantic Sapphire aboard

Atlantic Sapphire crew rescued from sinking boat: UPDATED

Updated Dec 14, 2018 at 4:47 p.m.

Treyton Alexander Marsman arrives at Kentville provincial court Wednesday morning. He and Dhari Salman Shalaan were arrested Tuesday morning after a traffic stop by RCMP near Berwick led to a firearm being discharged. - Ian Fairclough

Pair charged in Highway 101 gun incident appear in court

Updated Dec 13, 2018 at 7:26 a.m.

14 Wing Greenwood receives millions from Ottawa for energy efficiency upgrades

Published Dec 11, 2018 at 4:48 p.m.

Pedestrian struck by car in downtown Windsor

Updated Dec 12, 2018 at 7:38 a.m.

Lake Paul man found guilty of break, enter and theft to serve jail time for this and several other offences

The Spectator
Published Dec 11, 2018 at 3:35 p.m.

A Lake Paul man has been sentenced to jail time for several offences, including willfully damaging the property of a bank and break, enter and theft. ...

VIDEO: One suspect injured, two arrested after gun fired at Berwick traffic stop

Ian Fairclough
Nicole Munro
Sara Ericsson
Updated Dec 11, 2018 at 4:25 p.m.

BERWICK, N.S. - Police say a 26-year-old man received non-life-threatening injuries after a firearm was discharged as a result of an incident that unfolded following a traffic stop in Berwick early Tuesday. The stop occurred at the on-ramp for ...

Kevin Murphy said Windsor town council should consider creating ‘safe-zones’ for smokers to go if they’re going to make it almost impossible to smoke anywhere else.

Area residents react to Windsor’s amended smoking bylaw

Colin Chisholm
Published Dec 10, 2018 at 2:43 p.m.

The town of Windsor recently approved amending its smoking bylaw to extend the ban on smoking of all kinds to town streets and sidewalks. ...

Yarmouth Mayor Pam Mood is now vice-president of the Federation of Nova Scotia Municipalities. TINA COMEAU/FILE PHOTO

Yarmouth Mayor Pam Mood announces intention to seek federal Liberal nomination for West Nova riding

Tina Comeau
Updated Dec 10, 2018 at 5:41 p.m.

YARMOUTH, N.S. – Yarmouth Mayor Pam Mood has announced that she will seek the federal Liberal nomination for the riding of West Nova. In a media release sent out Sunday evening, Dec. 9, Mood said she will bring to Ottawa the same ...

This home in Waterville was destroyed by a fire that broke out overnight Dec. 9. (WDFD photo)

Waterville home ‘completely destroyed’ in overnight fire

Ashley Thompson
Updated Dec 10, 2018 at 10:20 a.m.

WATERVILLE, N.S. – A Dykens Lane man displaced by a house fire was stirred awake in the nick of time Dec. 9 thanks to man’s best friend. Waterville and District Fire Department spokesperson Kevin Ernest said the canine intervention is ...

'He brought the light to people with a smile': Muscular dystrophy activist Daniel Arsenault, 18, mourned

Adam MacInnis
Updated Dec 10, 2018 at 10:58 a.m.

TRENTON, N.S. — Lynn Arsenault says her son was her strength – an earth angel. Now her angel is looking down from above. Trenton’s Daniel Arsenault has passed away at the age of 18, leaving hundreds in Pictou County who ...

Six adults charged in Annapolis County after two-month drug trafficking investigation

Lawrence Powell
Updated Dec 08, 2018 at 11:35 a.m.

MIDDLETON, N.S. - A two-month drug investigation in Annapolis County has resulted in six adults being charged with drug offences. RCMP from Annapolis and Kings counties searched three homes on Dec. 6 and arrested the suspects. As a result of the ...

Berwick Family Dentistry lotto pool members have 100,000 reasons to smile

Kirk Starratt
Published Dec 07, 2018 at 1:20 p.m.

Members of a lottery pool at Berwick Family Dentistry have more than good oral health to smile about this holiday season. ...

Items worth $500,000 allegedly stolen in crime spree spanning Hants, Halifax, Lunenburg counties

Sara Ericsson
Updated Dec 10, 2018 at 7:13 a.m.

An alleged ten-month crime spree spanning Hants, Halifax and Lunenburg counties sees nearly 50 charges laid after items worth $500,000 were stolen. ...

A 61-year-old man was killed in a collision Thursday night near Exit 2 of Highway 104 at the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border.

75-year-old killed in head-on collision near Amherst

Darrell Cole
Updated Dec 07, 2018 at 1:21 p.m.

FORT LAWRENCE, N.S. – A 75-year-old man is dead following a two-vehicle collision in the eastbound lane of Highway 104 near Exit 1A at the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border. RCMP said in a news release Friday, the man was found dead in ...