The Hants Journal

The Annapolis Royal Farmers and Traders Market kicks off May 18 for its 43rd year. The Saturday morning market is a longstanding tradition in Annapolis Royal and boasts all manner of produce, baked goods, art, artisan products, antiques, and even beer and spirits are available. It runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday until late fall and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Wednesday in July and August.

Time to go shopping - Annapolis Royal’s Farmers and Traders Market ...

Wendy Elliott. File

WENDY ELLIOTT: Women, is it time to cross your legs?

LETTER: Innovation, partnerships needed to redevelop Windsor’s textile ...

Students in Grades 7 and 8 attending Windsor Regional High School requiring additional assistance with their studies in 1994 could now visit the Resource Room to get help. Pictured are, from left, teacher assistant Mary Lou Lake, Jacob Pollard, teacher assistant Suzanne McIntyre, John Milne (seated), Holly Fraser, and resource teacher Jerry Sawler.

Hants History: Mid-May 2019 edition

The Valley Drive-In Theatre, in the Annapolis Valley, has joined the fight with the Brackley Drive-In protesting stringent requirements around when it can show Disney films. - ANDREA BURBIDGE

Valley Drive-in back in action

Human remains recovered from Cornwallis River in New Minas

2-minute reads Part 2: Who are the people in our neighbourhood?

Elliott Daniels, with a twinkle in his eye, reminisces about a long, joyful life in the Windsor area — including adventures across the country and getting his hands dirty working on machinery, helping to build Ski Martock and laying the groundwork for the West Hants Historical Society.

Windsor Forks native Elliott Daniels thinks back on a lifetime of ...

Matt Povah, IT specialist with the Town of Windsor and chief architect of the surveillance camera network, says the network is expanding to approximately 50 cameras this year.

Privacy questions fielded as Windsor’s video surveillance network ...

Henry Dorey is all too familiar with lip service and bureaucracy.

WENDY ELLIOTT: Lip service and a wall of bureaucracy still facing Henry

Participants of the fourth annual Lisa’s Legacy walk enjoy the beautiful sunshine as they make their way around Lake Pisiquid on May 19, 2019.

Hants County Strong: funds raised for Inez Rudderham’s family during fourth Lisa Wood memorial run in Windsor

Updated a day ago

Self-taught scrap-metal artist Tim Freeman with Bruce the Moose, a 500-pound creature fashioned out of hundreds of found metal objects, including radiator covers, chains, hammer heads, wrenches and chainsaw blades. Bruce's rack was traced from a neighbour's actual rack of a 30-month-old moose. A resident of Upper LaHave, Freeman said he invested more than 400 hours completing this extraordinary project.

An accidental artist

Published 12 hours ago

Pine Ridge Middle School students were top winners overall in the junior division.

Season dedicated to Steve Wohlmuth

Updated 13 hours ago

The Shelburne Harbour Yacht Club sustained fire damage to its kitchen and extensive smoke damage throughout the building after a blaze broke out in the historic waterfront property on May 19.

Shelburne Harbour Yacht Club damaged by fire

Updated 11 hours ago

News

The Shelburne Harbour Yacht Club sustained fire damage to its kitchen and extensive smoke damage throughout the building after a blaze broke out in the historic waterfront property on May 19.

Shelburne Harbour Yacht Club damaged by fire

Updated 11 hours ago

An RCMP cruiser.

Man, woman flee on foot following car crash in Greenwood Square

Updated May 17, 2019 at 7:19 a.m.

The Kentville law courts. - File

Kings and West Hants Court Report, May 16

Published May 16, 2019 at 9:58 a.m.

Wanda MacDonald hopes the statistics provided through the brain tumour registry will result in government funding for research. Her son Matt was 14 when a brain tumour caused his death

Bible Hill mother who lost son to brain tumour hopes new registry can help others

Updated May 16, 2019 at 9:53 a.m.

Sports

Pine Ridge Middle School students were top winners overall in the junior division.

Season dedicated to Steve Wohlmuth

Updated 13 hours ago

Azlyn Bezanson holds on tightly as King’s-Edgehill players team up to try to cut her run short.

SLIDESHOW: Horton, King’s-Edgehill split pair of afternoon rugby games

Published May 15, 2019 at 3:08 p.m.

Bill Hirtle stands at the track he helped build 68 years ago. That track is where he and others coached District, Regional, Provincial, and National champions. Districts take place this week at the old dirt tract for the last time. The track will be torn up and will be replaced by an eight lane artificial track.

Dirt track memories - Legendary Bridgetown running coach Bill Hirtle looks back on when it all started

Updated May 14, 2019 at 12:38 a.m.

Integrity Cheer Empire (ICE) and Valley Cheer Athletics (VCA) are merging into one cheer program to serve the entire Annapolis Valley. ICE will now have two locations, Windsor and Kentville.

Windsor and Kentville cheer organizations combine individual programs into one

Published May 13, 2019 at 3:13 p.m.

Business

Kent Bailey, the chair of the Tampa Sierra Group speaks on behalf of a small group of protesters from Florida outside the the Emera Inc. annual meeting at Halifax Convention Centre Wednesday. The community advocates travelled from Florida. They were protesting continued use of carbon-based fuels by Emera subsidiary TECO Energy, based in Tampa, in its Big Bend Power Station.

Halifax-based energy conglomerate Emera promises better diversity on board

Updated May 16, 2019 at 12:55 p.m.

Rob and Joanne Lawrie of Annapolis Royal Home Hardware Building Centre and Meteghan Home Hardware Building Centre have added four more retail locations to their portfolio, including Bridgetown Home Hardware Building Centre, Middleton Home Hardware, Middleton Home Furniture, and Greenwood Home Hardware. - Dan Froese

Annapolis Royal's Lawries acquire Home Hardware locations in Bridgetown, Middleton, Greenwood

Published May 09, 2019 at 4:04 p.m.

The Barking Bean co-owner Glenn Deering with two of his rescue dogs Shay left and Timo. The location is still under construction, but they’re hoping to open their doors in early June.

Hantsport’s Main Street going to the dogs - in a good way

Updated May 10, 2019 at 11:54 a.m.

Support worker Tara Steadman and CAPRE client Jenny Boersma teamed up to build a business venture around the idea of producing wine bags to sell locally.

Canning woman plans to expand CAPRE-based wine bag business

Published May 08, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

Living

Self-taught scrap-metal artist Tim Freeman with Bruce the Moose, a 500-pound creature fashioned out of hundreds of found metal objects, including radiator covers, chains, hammer heads, wrenches and chainsaw blades. Bruce's rack was traced from a neighbour's actual rack of a 30-month-old moose. A resident of Upper LaHave, Freeman said he invested more than 400 hours completing this extraordinary project.

An accidental artist

Published 12 hours ago

Neil Hamilton is seen with supporters and RCMP escort ahead of a community walk last week.

‘Worth sacrificing everything’: Ontario man’s walk for PTSD comes through Clarenville, N.L. during mental health week

Updated May 15, 2019 at 5:50 p.m.

Following an emotional ceremony, Joel Okyere placed his mortarboard on his mother, Charity Amin’s head.

One special Mother’s Day for Acadia graduate from Ghana

Published May 15, 2019 at 2:03 p.m.

On receiving his Doctor of Humanities from Acadia University, Rick Hansen, Canada’s Man in Motion, was applauded warmly. - Wendy Elliott

Canada’s Man in Motion receives honorary degree at Acadia convocation

Updated May 17, 2019 at 10:43 a.m.

Opinion

Ed Coleman History

ED COLEMAN: Blossom founder: was it Burns, Palmeter or Baker?

Published a day ago

Wendy Elliott. File

COLUMN: Quality of life matters on so many levels

Published Apr 26, 2019 at 5:44 p.m.

Kit Harington as Jon Snow and Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen. Courtesy HBO

COLUMN: Seriously, don’t spoil Game of Thrones

Updated Apr 22, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

Elmer’s store in 1942 – a combination of lunch counter, restaurant and convenience store. - LOUIS COMEAU COLLECTION

ED COLEMAN: Remembering the Elmer’s Lunch era in Kentville

Updated Apr 20, 2019 at 12:06 p.m.

Community

Participants of the fourth annual Lisa’s Legacy walk enjoy the beautiful sunshine as they make their way around Lake Pisiquid on May 19, 2019.

Hants County Strong: funds raised for Inez Rudderham’s family during fourth Lisa Wood memorial run in Windsor

Updated a day ago

Janet Ness, Jill Davies and Jaye Cartney at the recent Hike for Valley Hospice fundraiser.

Remembering mom while hiking for Valley Hospice

Updated May 16, 2019 at 10:47 a.m.

Macdonald Museum in Middleton will house a handful of ‘inmates’ May 24 in a fundraiser that will se ‘convicts’ get more than one phone call as they try to raise bail and gain their freedom. But Warden Janice Slauenwhite isn’t making it easy.

Middleton's Macdonald Museum becomes jail for a day in fundraiser with a twist

Updated May 15, 2019 at 12:28 p.m.

Glen Surette with Gerry and Anita Goodwin at Villa St. Joseph du Lac in Yarmouth County. The three had been seeing each other for years at the seniors' long-term care facility but it wasn't until just recently they realized their paths had first crossed about 30 years ago in the middle of a snowstorm.
TINA COMEAU PHOTO

It’s you! 30 years later something clicks when Yarmouth County resident discovers identity of couple he had rescued

Updated May 14, 2019 at 1:31 p.m.

Recent Stories

Self-taught scrap-metal artist Tim Freeman with Bruce the Moose, a 500-pound creature fashioned out of hundreds of found metal objects, including radiator covers, chains, hammer heads, wrenches and chainsaw blades. Bruce's rack was traced from a neighbour's actual rack of a 30-month-old moose. A resident of Upper LaHave, Freeman said he invested more than 400 hours completing this extraordinary project.

An accidental artist

Pine Ridge Middle School students were top winners overall in the junior division.

Season dedicated to Steve Wohlmuth

The Shelburne Harbour Yacht Club sustained fire damage to its kitchen and extensive smoke damage throughout the building after a blaze broke out in the historic waterfront property on May 19.

Shelburne Harbour Yacht Club damaged by fire

Halifax Mooseheads winger Maxim Trepanier celebrates his goal in Sunday's Memorial Cup game against the Guelph Storm at the Scotiabank Centre.

Big win over Storm puts Mooseheads in prime position

Ed Coleman History

ED COLEMAN: Blossom founder: was it Burns, Palmeter or Baker?

Participants of the fourth annual Lisa’s Legacy walk enjoy the beautiful sunshine as they make their way around Lake Pisiquid on May 19, 2019.

Hants County Strong: funds raised for Inez Rudderham’s family during fourth Lisa Wood memorial run in Windsor

Wendy Elliott. File

WENDY ELLIOTT: Women, is it time to cross your legs?

Front row, from left, John Macdonald, Jim Reid, Frank MacKay, Charlie Milner and Ally Macdonald. Back: Eckhart Schroeder, Gordon Milne and Dan Reid.

Former scout leader still bonds with his troop in Colchester County’s backwoods

Winger Alexey Torpchenko celebrates one of his three goals during the Guelph Storm's 5-2 win over the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies at the Memorial Cup at the Scotiabank Centre on Saturday.

MEMORIAL CUP: Storm fluster Huskies in 5-2 win

LETTER: Innovation, partnerships needed to redevelop Windsor’s textile mill

Students in Grades 7 and 8 attending Windsor Regional High School requiring additional assistance with their studies in 1994 could now visit the Resource Room to get help. Pictured are, from left, teacher assistant Mary Lou Lake, Jacob Pollard, teacher assistant Suzanne McIntyre, John Milne (seated), Holly Fraser, and resource teacher Jerry Sawler.

Hants History: Mid-May 2019 edition

The Annapolis Royal Farmers and Traders Market kicks off May 18 for its 43rd year. The Saturday morning market is a longstanding tradition in Annapolis Royal and boasts all manner of produce, baked goods, art, artisan products, antiques, and even beer and spirits are available. It runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday until late fall and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Wednesday in July and August.

Time to go shopping - Annapolis Royal’s Farmers and Traders Market kicks off new season May 18