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

Curling

Kings Special Olympics curlers give strongest performance to date at provincial winter games

Published Mar 04, 2019 at 3:21 p.m.

This rugby player looked like a natural when curling in Windsor. CAROLE MORRIS-UNDERHILL

Windsor Curling Club wrapping up another successful season

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

Payton Roles, 7, throws the rock to her brother, Grady, 6, who gets ready to sweep it down the ice.

People trying curling for first time in Berwick get swept up by sport

Updated Feb 11, 2018 at 7:22 p.m.

The winning Provincial Club Mixed Championship team from Windsor, from left, is made up of Monica Dirscoll, Greg Gollan, Shelley MacDougall, and skip Arnold Burnard.

Windsor rink wins Provincial Club Mixed Championship

Updated Jan 24, 2018 at 12:56 p.m.

A team of U14 curlers sweep as the rock makes its way down the ice at the eighth annual Earl MacKinnon Classic Jan. 21 at the Glooscap Curling Club in Kentville.

Kentville curling classic offers young athletes rare chance to rock competition

Sara Ericsson
Updated Jan 23, 2018 at 3:25 p.m.

KENTVILLE, NS – Rising star and curling competitor Ryleigh Lake led her U12 curling team to victory at the eighth annual Earl MacKinnon Classic Jan. 21 in Kentville. It was her first competition as a skip, and certainly not her last. ...

Berwick Curling Club president Mike Larsen, centre, and the club membership made inductions to its wall of fame on Jan. 13. Inductees included Mike Morse, left, Lori and Dan Dorey and the Edith Corkum Memorial Bonspiel. Original bonspiel organizer Cheryl Lloyd and Pam Morton, Mary Ellen Lonergan and Carol Hampsey – who used to curl on Corkum’s team – represented the bonspiel. Missing from the photo is Gwen Boyd.

Berwick Curling Club inducts athletes, builders, volunteers onto wall of fame

Kirk Starratt
Published Jan 17, 2018 at 3:11 p.m.

It’s a way to celebrate those who contributed to building the Berwick Curling Club and helped promote the sport in the community and beyond. ...

For Shelley Barker, curling isn’t just a fulfilling competitive sport, it’s also the core of her social life — she’s met friends, her husband, and more through the game.

Windsor curler excelling in the sport while creating tight bonds with fellow players

Colin Chisholm
Published Jan 14, 2018 at 11:22 a.m.

Shelley Barker has one of those infectious personalities — her smile, laugh and general persona invoke someone that is welcoming and a fast friend. ...

['The Windsor Curling Club is located on Grey Street.']

Free curling lessons being offered at Windsor Curling Club

Carole Morris-Underhill
Published Jan 09, 2018 at 1:22 p.m.

Hoping to capitalize on the mounting excitement over the upcoming Winter Olympics, Windsor's curling club is hosting a free learn to curl session. ...

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

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

Ottawa - Four years of planning and building for a week-long, tension-filled test of endurance that is the Canadian Olympic Trials evaporated in just under three hours on the pebbled ice of Canadian Tire Centre as Brad Gushue and his curling team ...

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

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

OTTAWA - We don’t want to get too ahead of ourselves here, but the thoughts of it are too delicious not to contemplate. Tonight’s final round-robin game of the Roar of the Rings between Brad Gushue and Kevin Koe might well be a prelude ...

Gushue moves into second-place tie at Olympic Trials

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

Ottawa - Mike McEwen decided to give the fans a little show with his last shot Wednesday night, sliding from the hack and doing a 360-degree turn before releasing his stone. The game was over, except for the handshakes, and McEwen figured ...

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 ...

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 ...