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Need for Speed P1 A1

Bent steel and broken lives: why do we drive too fast?

Roland DesChamp Sr. holds a photo of the first boat launched in 1963 by DesChamp and Jackson boatbuilders. KATHY JOHNSON

Lifelong Shelburne boatbuilder retires: ‘I knew how to build a boat ...

2018 Barrington River Run. Derek McCarthy rides the rapids down Chrissy's Falls during the annual Barrington River Run on May 12. KATHY JOHNSON PHOTO

2018 YEAR IN REVIEW: Shelburne County scrapbook

Stan Atwell of the company Anything and Everything Demolition and Recycling stands inside what is left of the former Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church in Plympton, Digby County in early December. The church, which closed years ago, is being demolished and the work is being done by hand. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Tri-County Vanguard: Tina Comeau's 2018 Year in Review Photo Scrapbook

Yarmouth Justice Centre. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Three men charged with attempted murder following reported stabbings ...

Shelburne Roseway Hospital. (Tina Comeau)

Shelburne Roseway Hospital closure during Jan. 20-21 timeframe due to ...

Fire departments, firefighters and members of the public protested outside the Yarmouth Town Hall on May 17. The town has said it will be exploring the cost of outsourcing its dispatch services. In a presentation to council they were asked to reconsider and maintain the dispatch service as it is. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Jan. 19 Yarmouth rally and march aimed at showing support to fire ...

James Kenny, 59.

UPDATE: RNC has located missing man James Kenny

Crates of lobster are offloaded from a fishing vessel at the Lower Woods Harbour wharf. The $9 shore price set within two weeks of the season opening is still holding, although it has created resistance in the marketplace.

$9 shore price in southwestern Nova Scotia creates lobster season ‘bottleneck’

Updated Jan 16, 2019 at 1:49 p.m.

Minister of Rural Economic Development Bernadette Jordan addresses the media following a swearing in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Monday.

Bernadette Jordan named as Nova Scotia’s new federal cabinet minister

Updated Jan 15, 2019 at 10:38 a.m.

Arnold Townsend reaches out to pet the deer rescued in Gunning Cove, Shelburne County, on Jan. 9. DAVE SYER PHOTO

VIDEO: Catch of the day – Shelburne County fisherman rescues deer with lobster vessel in Gunning Cove

Updated Jan 16, 2019 at 2:51 p.m.

Shelburne Roseway Hospital. (Tina Comeau)

Shelburne Roseway Hospital closure during Jan. 20-21 timeframe due to lack of physician availability

Updated 4 hours ago

News

Louise Delisle, centre, and Mary Manning, right, from the South End Environmental Injustice Society are pictured with Vishal Bhardwaj, a commissioner with the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.

Shelburne County group, native son receive human rights awards

Updated Dec 31, 2018 at 8:51 a.m.

A shopper heads out of the Mumford Road Sobeys on Thursday. - Ryan Taplin

Environment minister says Nova Scotia won’t issue plastic bag ban

Updated 5 hours ago

Increased bobcat sightings a rare treat: Nova Scotia biologist

Updated 8 hours ago

RCMP

Charges of sexual assault and voyeurism laid against Meteghan RCMP member

Updated 7 hours ago

Sports

Bridgetown’s Maryelle Hannam holds the IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship cup her Canadian team won Jan. 13 with a 3-2 overtime win against the United States. She’s one of the coaches and was in Japan for the tournament.

Canadian girls win U-18 hockey gold in Japan with help from Bridgetown’s Maryelle Hannam

Updated 11 hours ago

Quebec Remparts centre Luke Kutkevicius tries to tip the puck past Halifax Mooseheads goalie Cole McLaren during the second period of Saturday night’s QMJHL game at the Scotiabank Centre. (Ryan Taplin/The Chronicle Herald)

Remparts catch Mooseheads off guard

Updated Jan 05, 2019 at 10:25 p.m.

Ryan Graves made his NHL debut on Dec. 27 with the Colorado Avalanche. Post-game interviews. EMILY WADE PHOTO/COURTESY OF COLORADO AVALANCHE SOCIAL MEDIA

Yarmouth's Ryan Graves on playing in the NHL: ‘It’s been an enjoyable experience and I’m trying to make the best of it’

Updated Jan 05, 2019 at 1:21 p.m.

Hurricanes end year with 112-109 win

Updated Dec 31, 2018 at 9:15 p.m.

Business

B.M.C. Seafoods Ltd. in Meteghan, Digby County, is once again growing its operations. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

B.M.C. Seafood Ltd. of Meteghan forging ahead with ambitious expansion plan

Updated Jan 16, 2019 at 2:50 p.m.

Carleton Road Industries Association currently operates a gas bar, post office, convenience store, and thrift store in Lawrencetown. As of Jan. 9, it will operate a bottle exchange at the west end of the old co-op store.

Get your refunds here - Carleton Road Industries Association opening bottle exchange in Middleton, Lawrencetown

Updated Dec 30, 2018 at 2:10 p.m.

Value Village store manager Reg Chitty says his New Minas store branch has been using paper bags in lieu of plastic since August, and that the change has been a popular one with customers.

Nova Scotia governments mull plastic bag ban, businesses take stock of what they use

Updated Dec 20, 2018 at 4:30 p.m.

The owners of the Rodd Colony Harbour Inn are considering reopening the complex next spring.

Owners investing millions in Yarmouth's Rodd Colony Harbour Inn and reopening in 2019

Published Dec 19, 2018 at noon

Living

Diane Redden has four alpacas at her Middle Stewiacke home. A couple of the animals were suffering from rickets when she got them.

Do your alpaca research before bringing them home: Middle Stewiacke herd owner

Updated 6 hours ago

What do you think Debbie Hill saw the afternoon of December 31 over Murray Harbour, P.E.I.? Whatever it was, science played a roll in it.

CINDY DAY: Mystery over Murray Harbour

Published Jan 12, 2019 at 6 a.m.

At least 40 vendors have registered with Women’s Winterlude to provide visitors with a wide range of presentations and workshops on topics such as nutrition, travel, health, dance, beauty and spiritual medium readings.

Women’s Winterlude Trade Show Jan. 19 in Yarmouth

Updated Jan 10, 2019 at 3:47 p.m.

Winter systems often travel through the Auld's Cove area along the Strait of Canso in Nova Scotia with lots of snow and blowing snow. Jasper snapped this photo Wednesday morning as the storm was ramping up. On a clear day, you'll see Cape Breton across the way.

CINDY DAY: Board’ …with this snow?

Published Jan 10, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Opinion

Businesses that no longer contribute to pension plans for their employees should have to pay more into the Canada Pension Plan, Russell Wangersky argues. —

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Businesses should share the pension pain

Updated 11 hours ago

Businesses won’t stay in arenas of uncertainty if they have better options. —

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Getting out while the getting is good

Published Jan 11, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Jim Vibert

VIBERT: Rule changes render public accounts committee toothless

Updated Jan 10, 2019 at 10:05 a.m.

Seagulls wait for scraps from cod being gutted in a small boat at Cape Bonavista in this file photo.

EDITORIAL: Ocean imbalance

Published Jan 08, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Community

Daren White stands behind the howling snow-wolf he created on his front lawn on Winston Ave. in Amherst. It took about three hours to build. “I took my shovel and started making a pile until it was up to my eyes, and then I packed it and carved away what wasn’t a wolf,” said White. Once he was happy with the results, he painted it.

Cumberland County man's Great Canadian Snowman Challenge goes global

Updated 5 hours ago

Sou’West Nova Transit driver Debbie Ezard is all smiles as she shows off the new wheelchair accessible van now in service at the Dec. 5 meeting of 100+ Women Who Care of Shelburne County. A donation of almost $10,000 in December 2017 from 100+ Women Who Care of Shelburne County to Sou’West Nova Transit played a major part in the purchase of the vehicle.

100+ Women Who Care of Shelburne County donation “a game changer” for Sou’West Nova Transit

Published Dec 27, 2018 at 10:44 a.m.

Randall Fredericks, pictured here, hopes to walk a proposed harvest area between Bridgetown and West Dalhousie near the Morse Road. The parcel of Crown land has come up for comment on the province's Harvest Plan Map Viewer. The public can comment until Jan. 19.

Council Concerned - Province puts two more parcels of Annapolis County Crown forest on harvest plans map

Updated Dec 24, 2018 at 4:34 p.m.

Photos of the Sibley-White family receiving the donations from the community after their home burned down days before Christmas.

Power of community on display this Christmas for Bloomfield, N.L. family

Updated Dec 22, 2018 at 3:55 p.m.

Recent Stories

Shelburne Roseway Hospital. (Tina Comeau)

Shelburne Roseway Hospital closure during Jan. 20-21 timeframe due to lack of physician availability

Fire departments, firefighters and members of the public protested outside the Yarmouth Town Hall on May 17. The town has said it will be exploring the cost of outsourcing its dispatch services. In a presentation to council they were asked to reconsider and maintain the dispatch service as it is. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Jan. 19 Yarmouth rally and march aimed at showing support to fire dispatchers

James Kenny, 59.

UPDATE: RNC has located missing man James Kenny

Daren White stands behind the howling snow-wolf he created on his front lawn on Winston Ave. in Amherst. It took about three hours to build. “I took my shovel and started making a pile until it was up to my eyes, and then I packed it and carved away what wasn’t a wolf,” said White. Once he was happy with the results, he painted it.

Cumberland County man's Great Canadian Snowman Challenge goes global

Seven-year-old Sophia LeBlanc received the Act of Heroism Award from Staff Sgt. Craig Learning on Jan. 16 at the RCMP detachment in Amherst. Her mom, Candice Hicks, said she is very proud of her daughter and how she stayed calm after their vehicle crashed into the river just north of Oxford on Nov. 1.

Seven-year-old Amherst hero recognized helping her family after car crashed into river

Businesses that no longer contribute to pension plans for their employees should have to pay more into the Canada Pension Plan, Russell Wangersky argues. —

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Businesses should share the pension pain

Canada Dry Ginger Ale — made with real ginger, or not? —

EDITORIAL: Ginger debate bubbles over

Vivian Wells looks at a photo of her brother, Tim Wells, who has been missing since May 2018. She's still grappling with his disappearance as the siblings were quite close.

Hants County rallies around search efforts to locate missing Windsor man

Margaret Paul wrote a poem for her late brother Terrance Johnson of Potlotek First Nation on what would have been his 50th birthday - May, 28, 2015. Johnson died by suicide when he was just 29 years old.

A decade after suicide attempts, Mi’kmaq woman has found clarity

A shopper heads out of the Mumford Road Sobeys on Thursday. - Ryan Taplin

Environment minister says Nova Scotia won’t issue plastic bag ban

Increased bobcat sightings a rare treat: Nova Scotia biologist

Diane Redden has four alpacas at her Middle Stewiacke home. A couple of the animals were suffering from rickets when she got them.

Do your alpaca research before bringing them home: Middle Stewiacke herd owner