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Grass dancers in traditional dress mark the occasion in the new Glooscap Community Centre.

Glooscap First Nation receives Lieutenant Governor’s Community Spirit ...

A.F. Theriault and Son Ltd. in Meteghan River, Digby County, celebrated its 80th anniversary on Oct. 20. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: Family, community and 80 years of boat building and ...

Linda Barkhouse, right, owns Wolfville’s Clayground studio alongside her sister, Melanie Godon. They each hold a ceramic mold designed by their grandmother, with whom they used to make ceramics when they were kids. The sisters have decided to sell their business but will remain open until it is sold.

'So many memories’: Clayground business for sale in Wolfville

The Canadian flag stands at the entrance to Rocky Harbour.

LEGER: Self-absorbed neighbours frustrate Canadians and Irish

Firefighters from across Annapolis County were battling a house fire at 443 Ween Street, just off Shore Road East near Mount Hanley Road, Sunday evening

Annapolis County firefighters battle house fire on Ween Street Sunday ...

Cst. Jeff Wilson was among the several Kings District RCMP officers conducting a school bus safety checkpoint in front of Aldershot Elementary School Oct. 19.

RCMP asks public to use diligence when sharing road with school buses

An adult salmon fitted with a ‘pop-off’ satellite tag is released near Qaqortoq, Greenland earlier this month. - Tim Sheehan

Mystery persists: why do many salmon fail to return to spawning rivers?

Kings-South MLA Keith Irving (left) and Glooscap First Nation Chief Sidney Peters chat during an event at the new Glooscap Community Centre. Irving recently announced the approval of solar projects at 11 First Nation communities, including Glooscap.

First Nations communities on the front line of solar power adoption

Antigonish County crash claims three lives

LETTER: Researcher seeking Catholic Burns relatives in the Windsor, ...

Windsor Curling Club wrapping up another successful season

Published Mar 31, 2018 at 12:49 p.m.

Michael Burns/Curling Canada The look says it all as Newfoundland and Labrador skip Brad Gushue hangs his head during the semifinal game at the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials semifinal Saturday night in Ottawa. Team Gushue was bounced from the Trials following a 6-4 loss to Mike McEwen.

Brad Gushue rink's Olympic dreams dashed

Updated Dec 10, 2017 at 7:53 a.m.

Michael Burns/Curling Canada Skip Brad Gushue cautions his sweepers during a Canadian Olympic Curling Trials game against Steve Laycock Thursday night in Ottawa.

Brad Gushue punches ticket to semifinal at Olympic trials

Updated Dec 08, 2017 at 5:18 a.m.

Canadian Press photo/Adrian Wyld — Brad Gushue throws a stone during the Olympic Curling Trials in Ottawa.

Gushue moves into second-place tie at Olympic Trials

Updated Dec 07, 2017 at 5:58 a.m.

Grand Slam of Curling/Anil Mungal —Brad Gushue believes he and longtime third Mark Nichols (right) will benefit from having already won Olympic gold as they compete at the Olympic Trials in Ottawa. “For myself and Mark, in particular, there’s probably a whole lot less pressure on us than there is on a lot of other curlers,” he said.

Gushue, Nichols all for the move to ban Russia from Olympics

Robin Short
Updated Dec 06, 2017 at 5:35 a.m.

By Robin Short Telegram Sports Editor-Ottawa Ottawa - You can count two former Olympic medal winners and current world champions among those who agree with Tuesday’s big announcement that saw the International Olympic Committee bar ...

CP photo Brad Gushue and his teammates, from left, Geoff Walker, Mark Nichols and Brett Gallant discuss a shot during a game against Winnipeg's Reid Carruthers at the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials Tuesday in Ottawa.

No 'A' grades yet, but Gushue curlers making improvement

Robin Short
Updated Dec 06, 2017 at 5:31 a.m.

Ottawa - Brad Gushue says his curling team, after four days of the Canadian Olympic trials, still isn’t at the top of its game. Mark Nichols goes so far as to rate their performance a B-minus. But Gushue, Nichols, Brett Gallant and Geoff ...

Michael Burns/Curling Canada Sweepers Geoff Walker, left, and Brett Gallant go to work on a rock thrown by Brad Gushue, background, during their Roar of the Rings Canadian Olympic Curling Trials game against Brad Jacobs Monday night in Ottawa.

Gushue drops heart-breaker to Jacobs; drops to 2-2 at Olympic Trials

Robin Short
Updated Dec 05, 2017 at 6:30 a.m.

Ottawa - Brad Gushue certainly isn’t prepared to throw in the towel, but the skip of the curling team from St. John’s is skating on thin ice at these Roar of the Rings Canadian Olympic Trials. Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant and ...

Michael Burns/Curling Canada — Team Gushue second Brett Gallant concentrates on making a throw during play at the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Olympic Curling Trials, being held this week in Ottawa.

For Team Gushue second Brett Gallant, the joy of competing is tinged with sadness

Robin Short
Updated Dec 05, 2017 at 5:41 a.m.

OTTAWA — He’s 27 and having the time of his life, a quasi-professional in the world of amateur curling with a shot at going to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Yet Brett Gallant, on some days, curls with a heavy ...

Canadian Press file photo/Jonathan Hayward — In this April 5, 2017 file photo, Team Canada lead Geoff Walker (lead) waits to sweep a shot by skip Brad Gushue during round-robin play against Japan at the world men’s curling championship in Edmonton. The game was played at the former Northlands Coliseum, former home of the Edmonton Oilers, Walker’s favourite NHL team.

Team Gushue lead Geoff Walker once had different dreams on ice

Robin Short
Updated Dec 04, 2017 at 3:55 a.m.

Ottawa — Geoff Walker, the lead on Brad Gushue’s reigning Tim Hortons Brier and world championship curling team, wasn’t always about rocks and rings. Unlike Gushue, Mark Nichols and Brett Gallant, all of whom never really took to ...

Canadian Press photo/Adrian Wyld—Brad Gushue and his St. John’s teammates had something to yell about Sunday, when they picked up their first win at the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Olympic Curling Trials in Ottawa.

Gushue gets into win column at Olympic Curling Trials

Robin Short
Updated Dec 04, 2017 at 3:59 a.m.

Ottawa — It wasn’t their best performance in an otherwise brilliant season to date, but Brad Gushue and the curlers from St. John’s played well enough Sunday evening to secure a 6-5, extra end win over Brendan Bottcher of Alberta at ...

Brad Gushue delivers a rock during his first game against John Epping at the 2017 Roar of the Rings Canadian Olympic Curling Trials Saturday night in Ottawa.

Gushue drops Olympic Trials opener to Epping

Robin Short
Updated Dec 03, 2017 at 6:32 a.m.

OTTAWA - If you subscribe to the theory that the glass is half empty, consider this: Brad Gushue, who carried a 32-5 record into these Roar of the Rings, the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, has now dropped three games in a row. Gushue and Co. ...

Robin Short/The Telegram — The St. John’s rink of (from left) Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant and Geoff Walker pose for team photos on Friday, practice day for the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian Olympic Curling Trials at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa. Preliminary-round play begins today.

Former 'stress bag' Brad Gushue is putting things in perspective

Robin Short
Updated Dec 02, 2017 at 7:53 a.m.

Brad Gushue admits he was a “stress bag” back in the day, an intense and somewhat temperamental young buck who had curling ranked up there with breathing on his list of priorities. Today, Gushue, sitting barefoot in the sand and drink ...

From left, Brad Gushue, Nark Nichols, Brett Gallant and Geoff Walker hoist the championship trophy after winning The Masters Grand Slam of Curling event Sunday in Lloydminster, Sask.

Team Gushue, reigning Brier and world champs, enter Olympic Trials as team to beat

Robin Short
Updated Dec 02, 2017 at 7:56 a.m.

OTTAWA - He skips the best curling team in the world right now, the reigning Brier and world champs and the top rink on the World Curling Tour so far this season. On Saturday, when nine teams hit the ice at Ottawa’s Canadian Tire Centre ...

The Nova Scotia senior women’s curling team includes: left, Skip Mary Mattatall, Third Marg Cutcliff, Second Jill Alcoe-Holland and Lead Andrea Saulnier.

Kentville curlers with Team Mattatall are ahead at the Seniors

The Hants Journal
Updated Sep 30, 2017 at 12:46 a.m.

Two-time (1995, 1998) Canadian Mixed champion Mary Mattatall, who recently skipped Nova Scotia in the 2017 Scotties Tournament of Hearts at St. Catharines, Ont., finishing with a 2-9 mark, makes her ...