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• No quick fix for THMs: CAO
  Hantsport’s council is having no luck finding an easy answer to the town’s drinking water dilemma. These things take time, says Hansport’s CAO ...
• Home win keeps Machine in Top 3
  After a close game at home, the Windsor Hants County Rugby Machine men’s team remains at the top of the standings in their league. The Machine ...
• Preserving the past for the future
  The West Hants Historical Society is looking to recruit. “We’re dealing, like so many volunteer organizations, with the changes in ...
• Newport poet earns writing recognition
  After toiling away at a collection of poems inspired by the life of his great grandfather for two years, a Newport man has received a second ...
• Windsor in bloom
  Windsor’s Communities in Bloom crew is waiting for feedback from out of town judges that will detail what makes Windsor great, and where ...
• Convicted cross burner facing new charges
  Nathan Rehberg is in trouble with the law again.
• Happy to be home
  If anyone is wondering if Leanne Durling made the right decision by undergoing a double lung transplant — a surgery made possible by a community ...
• Big bucks spent on booze in Windsor
  The liquor store in Windsor is raking in millions. Rick Perkins, the vice president of business development and communications for the ...
• Bluefins fair well at home meet
  With their home meet behind them, the next competition on the Windsor Bluefin’s radar is provincials. Donna Britten, president of the ...
• Machine men in playoff position
  The Windsor Hants County Rugby Machine men’s team is close to securing a spot in the playoffs. With only four regular season games to go, as of Aug
• WHEC helps to keep kids learning
  Elisha Boyd is the first to admit he veered off in the wrong direction in junior high. He skipped class, avoided school work and adopted an ...
• Big growth requires big changes
  When Mitchell Brison built subdivisions in his sandbox as a kid, he didn’t have to worry about dealing with any red tape. As one would ...
• Hockey heritage society courting NHLer
  Windsor’s Hockey Heritage Centre is right at home in the Haliburton House Museum. The ode to Canada’s national sport has been open for ...
• Kings-Hants on Ottawa’s radar
  The Kings-Hants riding continues to attract Conservative MPs more than two months after Liberal incumbent Scott Brison held on to his seat in ...
• Hants West cleans house in Senior Games
  Hants West is home to several new medalists after hosting the Valley Senior 55+ Games last week. With a combined total of about 17 gold-medal ...
• Host homes needed for international guests
  An international cultural exchange organization is looking for host families to provide accommodations for children visiting Nova Scotia from ...
• Windsor DNR firefighter tackles unruly Albertan blaze
  Adam Dignan has fought his fair share of forest fires. But the 26-year-old Brooklyn resident, a forest fire management worker with the ...
• Avon View grads claim about $375,000 in awards
  Avon View High School’s recent graduates are embarking on a new phase in their lives armed with some words of wisdom from a peer, their ...
• Oh Canada!
  The Town of Hantsport once again rolled out the red carpet and invited residents and guests to celebrate Canada Day with them. From an early ...
• Daycare society must find new funding options
  The Windsor Day Care Society is exploring new avenues for much-needed funding after learning the Town of Windsor is unable to accommodate a ...
• Selling the rural way of life
  One man’s middle of nowhere is Bruce McDow’s paradise. It took a visit to Toronto in his teen years to make McDow, a native of New Ross, ...
• British Motoring Festival returning to Windsor
  The co-ordinators of the second annual British Motoring Festival (BMF) in Windsor are gearing up for a unique car show that will only get better ...
• Busy hands knit comfy breast prostheses
  BY ASHLEY THOMPSON The Hants Journal It’s uncommon to find Leota Daniels sitting with idle hands. She has far too many bras to fill to lay her ...
• Retired RCMP sergeant honoured
  When a young Const. Herald Searle drove up beside a car full of joy riders tearing down the streets of Windsor in the late 1940s and waved his ...
• Observation centre in works for salt marsh
  Members of the Cheverie Crossway Salt Marsh Society have been watching their hard work pay off for the past five years and, the group’s ...
• Town considers granting daycare’s financial request
  Town council is working on helping the Windsor Day Care Society secure a line of credit that will kick-start the construction of a $1 million ...
• Hants West to host Valley Senior Games next week
  Hundreds of active seniors are preparing to descend upon Hants County this July in a bid to win gold, silver or bronze. Hants County is playing ...
• International student leaves mark at Avon View
  Olivier Joris may be returning to Belgium when he graduates from Avon View High School, but the impression he left on his peers and ...
• AVHS students receive prestigious provincial award
  Two Avon View students are the recent recipients of Nova Scotia’s Power of Positive Change Award — an honour bestowed upon only a handful of ...
• Daycare throws council a curveball
  The Windsor Day Care Society is asking Windsor’s town council to reconsider a repayment agreement that they say is stalling the ...