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: 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

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.

Rouyn-Noranda Huskies goalie Samuel Harvey and Halifax Mooseheads forward Arnaud Durandeau look for the puck during Saturday's QMJHL playoff game at the Scotiabank Centre.

Huskies beat Mooseheads 4-0 to win QMJHL championship

Willy Palov
Updated May 13, 2019 at 10:55 a.m.

The championship run came to an abrupt end for the Halifax Mooseheads on Saturday. The Rouyn-Noranda Huskies beat them 4-0 at the Scotiabank Centre to wrap up this year's QMJHL best-of-seven final 4-2. This is the Huskies' second President ...

King’s-Edgehill School’s Gracie Blaschek presents the ball to teammates. Tea Racozzi is pictured in support.

Valley high school rugby players back on the pitch, provincials to be held in Windsor

Carole Morris-Underhill
Updated May 09, 2019 at 9:03 p.m.

'If it wasn’t for rugby, I wouldn’t have gone to university' ...

Emma Johnson and Odessa Baker were the gold medal winners at the junior division of the NSSAF provincial championships.

Middleton duo provincial NSSAF junior girls badminton champions

Contributed
Updated May 09, 2019 at 2:45 p.m.

The Middleton Regional High School Doubles Team in the Junior Girls Division won the NSSAF Provincial Championship on April 13 at CEC in Truro. En-route to Provincials they had second place positions at both Districts in Middleton and Western ...

Whynot ranked No. 4 for QMJHL draft

The Hants Journal
Updated May 08, 2019 at 8:37 p.m.

Cameron Whynot is the highest-ranked Nova Scotian for the upcoming QMJHL draft.The Valley Wildcats defenceman was rated fourth overall in the league’s Central Scouting rankings, released on Wednesday. Defenceman Oscar Plandowski (13th) and forward ...

The three local floorball players going to the world tournament in May are, from left: alternate Riley Curry, Simon Tracy and Daniel Henri.

Annapolis Valley goalkeeper impressing at Canada’s under-19 world floorball championship camp

Josh Young
Updated May 08, 2019 at 2:56 p.m.

Simon Tracy from Port Williams is ready for the upcoming under-19 World Floorball Championships in Halifax. He will be one of two goalkeepers for Canada. “I am excited and nervous at the same time, I got a little bit of butterflies in my ...

High school rugby players rally to save their sport outside the Nova Centre in Halifax on Friday, May 3, 2019. The NSSAF was meeting at the centre and the student athletes were looking for answers at why their sport was so swiftly killed off. - Tim Krochak / File

Agreement reached on Nova Scotia high school rugby

The Hants Journal
Updated May 07, 2019 at 2:41 p.m.

Rugby Nova Scotia will take over running high school rugby for the rest of the season. That news came out of a meeting in Truro on Tuesday between the Department of Education and the board of governors of the Nova Scotia School Athletic ...