Date: Jul. 9th, 2024 - 3:12 PM
Liverpool resident Terry Doucette declared his bid on Tuesday for mayor of the Region of Queens. (Rick Conrad)
A former teacher wants to be the next mayor of the Region of Queens.
Terry Doucette retired in 2015 after 37 years as a teacher and school and school board administrator. He declared his intention at a council meeting on Tuesday during the public comments... Read More...
Date: Jul. 8th, 2024 - 6:47 PM
The board that operates Region of Queens Home Support in Liverpool has given notice that it will terminate its contract with the Nova Scotia government to provide home-care services. (Rick Conrad)
UPDATED 2:30 p.m. Tuesday
A non-profit group that delivers home-care services in Queens County has decided to terminate its contract with the provincial government partly because of a “substantial” deficit.
Region of Queens Home Support has been providing... Read More...
Date: Jul. 5th, 2024 - 1:44 PM
Queens General Hospital. Photo Ed Halverson
UPDATED 3:53 p.m. Friday
The emergency department at Queens General Hospital in Liverpool will be on reduced hours from Saturday to Tuesday.
The ER will be closed from 5 a.m. Saturday (July 6) to 8 a.m. Sunday. It will close again at 1:30 p.m. Sunday and... Read More...
Date: Jul. 4th, 2024 - 3:45 PM
Sarah Mitton was tops in the shot put at the Canadian Athletics trials in Montreal last week. The four-time Canadian champion is headed to the Summer Olympics in Paris. (Mundo Sport Image via Athletics Canada Facebook)
Queens County Olympian Sarah Mitton is on her way to Paris.
The 28-year-old world champion shot putter from Brooklyn qualified recently for the Canadian track and field team that will be going to the Summer Olympics July 26 to Aug. 11.
Her throw of 19.62... Read More...
Date: Jul. 3rd, 2024 - 11:56 AM
Michelle Thompson, Nova Scotia’s health and wellness minister, announces at a news conference on Wednesday that the YourHealthNS app will be expanded to all Nova Scotians over 16. (Communications Nova Scotia via Zoom)
The Nova Scotia government is expanding access to a $15-million smartphone app that lets patients see their own medical records.
The government gave early access to 13,824 patients in six clinics around the province from January to April to the YourHealthNS... Read More...
Date: Jul. 2nd, 2024 - 9:44 AM
A float from the Mersey Rose Theatre Company promoting the youth musical Alice in Wonderland, Jr., was one of the top floats in the Privateer Days parade on Saturday. (Rick Conrad)
Hundreds of people from around Nova Scotia lined the streets of downtown Liverpool on Saturday for the Privateer Days Parade.
It was part of the 39th annual Privateer Days celebration which began Friday.
The two-day festival featured the parade as well as a... Read More...
Date: Jun. 29th, 2024 - 7:39 AM
Kristopher Snarby, president of the Seaside Centre in Beach Meadows, says volunteers and the community have helped revitalize the community centre. (Rick Conrad)
Volunteers in the Beach Meadows area have revitalized their local community centre, bringing it back from the brink just two and a half years ago.
When a new board of directors took over the Seaside Centre in Beach Meadows in November 2021, many in the... Read More...
Date: Jun. 28th, 2024 - 2:09 PM
(Photo via RCMP NS Facebook page)
Queens District RCMP have charged two people with multiple charges after a break and enter in East Berlin that led to a drug seizure.
Officers responded to a call in progress on April 23 at 6:40 p.m. at a cottage on East Berlin Road. Initially, police were... Read More...
Date: Jun. 28th, 2024 - 12:30 PM
David Trueman, branch supervisor of Thomas H. Raddall Library in Liverpool, speaks to a group this week at a public consultation session on the design of the temporary location of the library. Elise Johnston, accessibility and inclusion co-ordinator with the Region of Queens, is leading the sessions. (Rick Conrad)
It may not be the location that many Liverpool library users want, but they say they’re going to make the best of it.
The Region of Queens has been holding public consultations this week on the design of the temporary location for the Thomas H. Raddall... Read More...
Date: Jun. 28th, 2024 - 9:38 AM
The emergency department at Queens General Hospital in Liverpool will be closed at various times this weekend. (Communications Nova Scotia)
The emergency department at Queens General Hospital in Liverpool will be closed at 1:30 p.m. on Friday until 8 a.m. Sat., June 29
It will close again at 1:30 p.m. on Sun., June 30 and reopen Mon., July 1 at 8 a.m.
The ER at South Shore Regional Hospital in... Read More...
Date: Jun. 25th, 2024 - 3:39 PM
More than 70 people turned out for the Astor Theatre Society’s annual general meeting on Monday evening in Liverpool. (Rick Conrad)
After years of discussing the need for it, the board of the Astor Theatre says that 2024 will be the year that they get serious about securing funding for a modern HVAC system.
The 122-year-old building has only ceiling fans in its performance space, making... Read More...
Date: Jun. 24th, 2024 - 2:56 PM
Kim Jackson, president of the Nova Scotia Native Council Zone 9, organized the National Indigenous Peoples Day event in Liverpool on Friday. (Rick Conrad)
People from indigenous communities across Canada celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day on Friday.
In Liverpool, the Nova Scotia Native Council Zone 9 organized an event at Great Oak Park near the Hank Snow Home Town Museum on Friday afternoon and... Read More...
Date: Jun. 21st, 2024 - 3:18 PM
Lincoln Inglis and his father Bruce will be at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Friday night cheering on the Edmonton Oilers in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup final. (Rick Conrad)
As the Edmonton Oilers try to extend the Stanley Cup final to seven games on Friday night, a small but committed group from Liverpool will be in the stands cheering them on.
Bruce Inglis, his son Lincoln and three friends will be at Rogers Place in Edmonton... Read More...
Date: Jun. 20th, 2024 - 7:12 PM
Canadian shot put thrower Sarah Mitton throws during the group A qualification round during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in July 2021. (Photo by Mark Blinch/COC)
With the Summer Olympics just over a month away, anticipation is building for fans of Queens County Olympian and world champion Sarah Mitton.
And to show support for Brooklyn’s best-known athlete, the Region of Queens is organizing a video tribute to send to... Read More...
Date: Jun. 19th, 2024 - 8:29 PM
Garbage piled up at one of the ‘greybox’ sites in Queens County. (Submitted)
Region of Queens officials plan to take action to curb the ongoing garbage problem in the county’s increasingly popular cottage country.
Councillors will vote on several recommendations at their June 25 meeting that they hope will mitigate chronic trash... Read More...
Date: Jun. 19th, 2024 - 9:49 AM
Queens General Hospital. Photo Ed Halverson
The emergency department at Queens General Hospital in Liverpool will be closed on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. and reopen Thursday at 8 a.m.
Nova Scotia Health advises people experiencing a medical emergency to call 911.
Patients of Queens Family Health can access... Read More...
Date: Jun. 18th, 2024 - 3:44 PM
North Queens Community School in Caledonia is one of the recipients of the new School Advisory Council Innovation Fund. (NQCS Facebook page)
North Queens Community School in Caledonia is one of 26 schools across Nova Scotia awarded funding through the new School Advisory Council Innovation Fund.
The fund is sponsored by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. It provides... Read More...
Date: Jun. 18th, 2024 - 3:09 PM
Liverpool Regional High School. Photo credit Ed Halverson
Six Queens County high school students have been awarded bursaries by the Region of Queens.
Each year, the municipality hands out the awards to students at Liverpool Regional High, North Queens Community School and Queens Adult High School.
Winners were... Read More...
Date: Jun. 17th, 2024 - 6:57 PM
Kids play this week at the splash pad at Etli Milita’mk, the universally designed play park in Liverpool. (Rick Conrad)
UPDATED JULY 20 at 10:30 a.m.
Region of Queens councillors will vote next week on whether to write off almost $51,000 in cost overruns and funding shortfalls at the universally designed play park in Liverpool.
Councillors voted last week to move the issue... Read More...
Date: Jun. 13th, 2024 - 6:12 PM
Scot Slessor at his stained glass studio SAS Glass, just off Main Street in Liverpool. Slessor is one of the organizers of the Queens Coast Art Tour on June 22 and 23. (Rick Conrad)
Liverpool stained glass artist Scot Slessor wants the Queens Coast Art Tour to be memorable.
But he also wants the map for the tour to be just as unforgettable, and useful. Last year, he recruited Region of Queens Mayor Darlene Norman to help him with a video... Read More...
Date: Jun. 12th, 2024 - 3:00 PM
The house at 89 Main St. in Liverpool before fire destroyed it on May 13. RCMP say the fire was suspicious. (Top photo: Google Streetview; bottom photo: Rick Conrad)
Queens District RCMP are asking for the public’s help in investigating a ‘suspicious’ fire at 89 Main St. in Liverpool in May.
“In this case, because the investigation is ongoing, I can’t provide additional comments without jeopardizing the... Read More...
Date: Jun. 12th, 2024 - 10:00 AM
This is all that’s left of the historic Hendry House at 89 Main St. in Liverpool after a fire in May. (Rick Conrad)
The owner of an abandoned house on Main Street in Liverpool that burned down in May has seven days to clean up the site.
If she doesn’t clean it up or appeal the order within seven days, the Region of Queens will do it for her and charge her for the cost of... Read More...
Date: Jun. 12th, 2024 - 9:48 AM
Region of Queens councillors plan to cover cost overruns and funding shortfalls for the Queens universally designed play park in Brooklyn. (Rick Conrad)
The Region of Queens plans to pick up the tab for almost $51,000 that’s still owed on the universally designed play park in Brooklyn.
The $630,000 playground opened in October 2023. Named Etli Milita’mk (pronounced ed-a-lee milly-dumk), it was the initiative... Read More...
Date: Jun. 10th, 2024 - 2:13 PM
Star Donovan, manager of special events for Mersey Seafoods, stands in front of the company’s Scallop Shack, which opened Monday at their location on Bristol Avenue. (Rick Conrad)
Residents and visitors to Liverpool can now buy Mersey Seafoods’ world-famous scallops right from the factory on Bristol Avenue.
The company opened the Scallop Shack in a tiny guardhouse in its parking lot on Monday morning.
Star Donovan is Mersey Seafoods’... Read More...
Date: Jun. 7th, 2024 - 2:33 PM
The South Shore Open Doors Association will receive $25,000 in provincial funding to help those who are housing insecure.
The South Shore Open Doors Association will receive $25,000 from the Nova Scotia government to help people in Queens and Lunenburg counties in precarious housing situations.
It’s part of a total of $500,000 in one-time funding announced this week for... Read More...