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• 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 ...
• Costly water study approved
  Hantsport’s town council is working on addressing issues surrounding the quality of the town’s drinking water and unsightly properties. ...
• Postal lockout strikes Hants County
  The Tories have tabled back-to-work legislation that may force Canada Post to resume operations later this week. A 12-day rotating postal strike ...
• Windsor teen vying for national pageant title
  Skye MacLeod feels she has access to a resource that will prove to be quite valuable as she strives to earn the distinction of Miss Teen Canada ...
• Fish Friends stock Halfway River
  Students in Shelley Petten’s Grade 3/4 split class at the Falmouth District School (FDS) have proof there are brook trout in the Halfway River. ...
• Making dreams come true
  Staff and students at the Falmouth District School have at least two great reasons to support the Children’s Wish Foundation — Matthew McCarthy ...
• Big changes in store for Hants West chamber
  The once struggling Hants West Chamber of Commerce is under construction. “We have to kind of take this thing and peel it right back and ...
• Fire guts mini-home, residents safe
  A Garlands Crossing couple and their 20-year-old daughter are temporarily staying in a trailer on their farm after fire destroyed their mini-home ...
• Hantsport Farmers’ Market expected to open June 18
  The organizer of the first Hantsport Farmers’ Market is looking for vendors to help make the Haven of Hospitality’s new weekly event a success. ...
• Gowen sentenced to life for East Uniacke murder
  BY ASHLEY THOMPSON The Hants Journal A life sentence has been handed out to one of two brothers charged with first-degree murder in connection ...
• A woman worthy of merit
  BY ASHLEY THOMPSON The Hants Journal Before Ena Matheson died, she lived. It wasn’t fame, fortune or even good health that made Ena’s life ...
• Swing by for free lessons
  Barb Hughes knows a woman who started playing tennis at the age of 66 and, nine years later, ranked No. 1 in her division across the ...
• Cracking down on pill-pushers
  An Ellershouse woman is anxiously waiting to learn if a proposed piece of legislation she inspired — a bill she believes will save lives — is ...
• Fish are ‘knocking at the gates’
  When Darren Porter prepares for a day at the office, he pulls on his best waterproof gear, grabs a lunch that will tide him over for 11 hours ...
• RCMP seize 300 pot plants
  Three Hants County men are facing drug-related charges after the local RCMP conducted resident searches in Mount Denson and Ardoise. Officers ...
• Windsor goes wireless
  Windsor is the third municipality in Nova Scotia to offer free high-speed Internet services within its downtown core. The Windsor Mesh ...
• Physicians prescribe mobile art show to combat the...
  Hants County-based physicians Judith Kazimirski and Teresa Machel are trying something a little different this year. They’re launching a portable ...
• PM's rally for support fails to unseat Brison
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the Kings-Hants riding traditionally dominated by Liberal Scott Brison Saturday to urge Tory backers to ...
• RCMP seize $20,000 worth of weed
  A Mount Uniacke woman is facing two drug-related charges after the RCMP confiscated $20,000 worth of marijuana and a small quantity of ecstasy ...
• Students thrust HPV awareness into spotlight
  When the topic of conversation is a sexually transmitted infection, it can be difficult to draw an attentive audience — especially when you’re ...
• Harper rallies support in Windsor
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the Kings-Hants riding traditionally dominated by Liberal incumbent Scott Brison Saturday to urge Tory ...
• Centre Burlington woman ready to fight cancer — again
  A few days before the 10-year anniversary of Pat Westlake’s lumpectomy — an operation she underwent to remove a cancerous mass from her left ...
• Hantsport welcomes new royal ambassadors
  There’s a new princess in town. Kelsey Carey, of Bishopville, is Princess Hantsport 2011. Along with the 2011 Hantsport Child Attendant, ...
• Province accused of ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’
  Windsor’s town council will be sending Premier Darrell Dexter a letter to indicate their displeasure with a back to budget move that may ...
• 'I have been blessed'
  Life has dealt Jeannie Gay some harsh blows that may have momentarily knocked her off her feet. But, staying down was never an option for ...
• Cambridge golf course to stay in business
  Thanks to golf enthusiasts Anthony Brunt and Ken Sanford, and their understanding wives, the Minas View Golf Links 18-hole course in Cambridge ...