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• Avon View cheer team wins regional title
  After being crowned regional champs, the Avon View Avalanche are heading to cheerleading provincials with a flawless record. Coach Tanya Condon ...
• Task force aims to revive West Hants Chamber of...
  The two remaining executive members of the West Hants Chamber of Commerce are looking for committed volunteers to relieve them of their duties. ...
• Tax error discovered
  Tracey Brown says she has noticed an inconsistency between the promises the provincial government made in July to cut their portion of the HST on ...
• Lesson in inclusion
  Nothing makes Lorraine Card happier than seeing her 17-year-old daughter, Rebecca, smile. In fact, Card says, when Rebecca — her only child and ...
• Elementary student discovers what makes a house a home
  Paige Levangie learned she has a knack for writing, and the ability to make a difference where it counts, when she entered her first national ...
• Rourke looking to take on the world
  The fun times are far from over for Falmouth snowboarder Dallas Rourke. Rourke is the only member of the Snowboard Nova Scotia team to be ...
• Sewer rates set to rise
  Living paycheque to paycheque may get even harder for people who rely on the Town of Windsor’s sewer system. At their regular monthly meeting ...
• Minister of Industry tours Kings-Hants riding
  Canada’s Minister of Industry Tony Clement can now check visiting Windsor and dining in Blomidon off his bucket list. After a short stop in ...
• Brother, sister earn top athlete awards
  Ben Nelson doesn’t mind when his older sister, Olivia, scores more points in a season than he does. “Sometimes when we were little we would go ...
• Three horses dead in Falmouth fire
  BY ASHLEY THOMPSON The Hants Journal Charred remains are all that is left of a small barn that once stood in Gary Miller’s backyard. The Falmouth ...
• Glooscap appeal dismissed
  Glooscap First Nation’s Chief Shirley Clarke wants to clarify that the purpose of their upcoming community meeting is not to assemble an appeal ...
• New art school opening in Windsor
  Jaki Durocher can draw or paint pretty well anything that is put in front of her. And, she says, she can teach other people to do the same. “Once ...
• Revenue Canada refunds Hockey Heritage Society
  Revenue Canada has reversed an auditor’s decision to slap Windsor’s Hockey Heritage Society with a bill for $15,000. “Based upon the appeal ...
• Self-taught eco heroes honoured for commitment
  There are several reasons why there is a legislated ban on uranium mining in Nova Scotia. The joint efforts of Donna Smyth and Gillian Thomas ...
• Hantsport council asked to support fossil institute
  The Blue Beach Fossil Museum Society will soon learn if Hantsport’s town council will chip in $1,000 to help them inch closer to operating a ...
• Euthanasia buzz hits close to home
  Stephan Bolton, a Liverpool man, turned himself into police last week claiming he killed his terminally ill wife. His claim pushed the ...
• Businessman shares words of wisdom
  Cold, hard economic truths can be disconcerting. But a brief economic overview demonstrating how the happenings in the world market may ...
• Go big or go home
  Falmouth’s Dallas Rourke and Jeremy Page are two examples of how small-town athletes trained at Ski Martock can prove to be top contenders in ...
• N.S. misses podium finish in snowboardcross finals
  Team Nova Scotia riders, including three representatives from Hants County, fought hard in the Canada Games snowboardcross competition at Ski ...
• Old Windsor Elms sold
  The old Windsor Elms building on King Street has sold. Sherry Keen, the CEO of the Windsor Elms, confirmed the sale closed Feb. 17, but she ...
• Glooscap band to assemble appeal board
  An appeal board will be struck to investigate whether or not there is cause for members of the Glooscap First Nation reserve to, once again, ...
• Conservative MP fires at opposition during long gun...
  The fight to kill Canada’s long gun registry has far from subsided since a bill seeking the registry’s end was defeated by just two votes ...
• MP focusing on economy, not ‘divisive issues’
  Kings-Hants Liberal MP Scott Brison says there are more pressing issues plaguing Canadians than the hassles associated with keeping a long gun ...
• Community talks homelessness
  Homelessness happens more than you think. That was a key message conveyed at a homelessness information session a group of concerned citizens ...
• Second try a charm for Hantsport athlete
  Justin Barkhouse, of Hantsport, is pumped to be representing his province on the badminton courts in the new Canada Games Centre in ...
• Falmouth snowboarder aims to impress at Games
  The end of this month may prove to be one of the most memorable times in 17-year-old Dallas Rourke’s life. Rourke, a Grade 11 student at Avon ...
• Spring Tune-Up tickets selling fast
  Three of the most celebrated bluegrass bands in the East Coast circuit will be jamming in Windsor for a highly anticipated Spring Tune-Up ...
• Hockey Heritage Society flush with new members
  The Windsor Hockey Heritage Society (WHHS) has a new line-up of board members looking to score enough funding to see a museum devoted to ...
• Haven for the homeless
  Blaine and Donna Eldridge open their home to people with no place to go on a regular basis. “We only have a spare bedroom so we can only ...
• Town partners with Games to boost tourism revenue
  The Town of Windsor will cover some of the costs associated with a Canada Games shuttle service to Ski Martock in exchange for some ...