Date: Apr. 1st, 2024 - 4:35 PM
A rendering of the Queens Neighbourhood Co-operative Housing development planned for Liverpool. (QNCH)
An affordable housing development for Liverpool could break ground by this fall.
Queens Neighbourhood Co-operative Housing is planning a 26-unit development off Lawrence Street that will include one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom units in two separate... Read More...
Date: Apr. 1st, 2024 - 4:28 PM
The Nova Scotia minimum wage increased to $15.20 an hour on April 1. (Robert Owen-Wahl via Pixabay)
Nova Scotia’s minimum wage went up on Tuesday, but it’s still the lowest in Atlantic Canada.
Nova Scotians working for the basic wage are now earning $15.20 an hour.
New Brunswick’s rate is now $15.30, PEI’s rose to $15.40, and Newfoundland and Labrador set... Read More...
Date: Mar. 28th, 2024 - 4:45 PM
David White is president of the Queens County ATV Association. (Rick Conrad)
ATV riders in Queens County are hoping to connect off-road trails with public roads and streets in the municipality so that operators can more easily use local services and support local businesses.
David White, president of the Queens County ATV Association,... Read More...
Date: Mar. 28th, 2024 - 4:24 PM
Region of Queens Municipality administration building. (Rick Conrad photo)
The Region of Queens hasn’t approved its budget yet, so councillors had to vote this week to approve interim spending limits so that the municipality’s bills will still get paid.
Council is supposed to have a budget approved by April 1 of each year.
That... Read More...
Date: Mar. 27th, 2024 - 5:43 PM
Carters Beach. Photo from Nova Scotia Provincial Parks Facebook page
The Nova Scotia government has begun work to turn Carters Beach into a provincial park. That means visitors to the popular Queens County destination will likely have more places to park this summer.
But they may have to seek out other beaches nearby... Read More...
Date: Mar. 27th, 2024 - 5:26 PM
Community Services Minister Brendan Maguire at his swearing-in ceremony in February with Lt.-Gov. Arthur LeBlanc and Premier Tim Houston. (Communications Nova Scotia)
The Nova Scotia government will index social assistance payments after all.
The province announced Wednesday that it would index all income assistance payments annually based on the consumer price index. In 2024-25, rates will be indexed by 2.5 per cent.
The... Read More...
Date: Mar. 27th, 2024 - 5:21 PM
A screengrab from the Region of Queens YouTube channel.
The Region of Queens is considering livestreaming its council meetings.
Councillors are expected to vote on a motion at their April 9 meeting for simultaneous YouTube and Facebook broadcasts.
All public meetings in council chambers are currently recorded and... Read More...
Date: Mar. 26th, 2024 - 4:28 PM
The soccer field at Liverpool Regional High School will be getting a makeover this year, with artificial turf and a new all-weather track. (Rick Conrad)
South Shore track and field athletes will be getting a year-round, all-weather track at Liverpool Regional High School.
The Queens County Track Society has decided to upgrade its original plan. Instead of an eight-lane gravel track, the school will now be... Read More...
Date: Mar. 26th, 2024 - 12:26 PM
Queens General Hospital. Photo Ed Halverson
Nova Scotia Health is holding a mobile primary care clinic in Liverpool this Wednesday, and again on April 2 and April 13.
The drop-in clinic will be held at Queens Family Health at Queens General Hospital. You don’t need an appointment.
The clinic will... Read More...
Date: Mar. 25th, 2024 - 3:23 PM
Jason Parise, development director with SWEB Development, speaks to Scott Joudrey at a community engagement session at the Greenfield Fire Hall last week about SWEB’s proposal for a 10-turbine wind farm in the area. (Rick Conrad)
Property owners in north Queens got an early look last week at a company’s plans to build a potential wind farm in the area.
The Apitamkiejit Wind Energy Project, named after the Mi’kmaq term for tamarack, is being proposed by SWEB Development, an... Read More...
Date: Mar. 22nd, 2024 - 2:43 PM
Rae Bonneville is the chairwoman of the newly formed Lunenburg Queens Business Collective. (Rae Bonneville)
Business groups on the South Shore have teamed up to form one large umbrella organization, potentially representing hundreds of businesses.
The Lunenburg Queens Business Collective includes the chambers of commerce and boards of trade from Liverpool,... Read More...
Date: Mar. 19th, 2024 - 5:29 PM
Cineplex Cinemas Bridgewater will close on April 29. (Rick Conrad)
While moviegoers on the South Shore may be mourning the impending closure of Cineplex Cinemas in Bridgewater, Liverpool’s Astor Theatre is getting ready to welcome film fans back.
Bridgewater Mayor David Mitchell confirmed online rumours late last week that... Read More...
Date: Mar. 19th, 2024 - 4:50 PM
Queens MLA Kim Masland. (Rick Conrad photo)
The Nova Scotia government has given Parks Canada in mainland Nova Scotia $27,250 to help promote sites like Kejimkujik National Park.
Queens MLA Kim Masland said in a news release that the money is part of the Tourism Digital Content Marketing Initiative. It... Read More...
Date: Mar. 18th, 2024 - 6:30 PM
A map showing where Kelly Cove Salmon proposes two new fish farm sites (in yellow) and where it plans to expand its existing operation (in green). (Nova Scotia Aquaculture Review Board)
It’s anyone’s guess as to when or if the Nova Scotia Aquaculture Review Board will hold hearings into a proposal to expand fish farming in Liverpool Bay.
The board posted a notice on its website on March 6, saying that hearing dates scheduled for... Read More...
Date: Mar. 18th, 2024 - 6:00 PM
COVID-19 immunization clinic setting up. Photo: Nova Scotia Government
Nova Scotians at the highest risk for severe illness from Covid-19 can now book their spring dose.
The booster will be available from March 25 to May 31.
The groups eligible to book right now are those 65 or older, people 18 or over in long-term care, nursing... Read More...
Date: Mar. 18th, 2024 - 9:28 AM
Stephanie Sereda, community development co-ordinator for the Region of Queens, organized the Light Up Queens Winter Night Festival. (Rick Conrad photo)
Hundreds of people flocked to the Liverpool waterfront on Saturday evening for the first Light Up Queens Winter Night Festival.
Organize by the Region of Queens, it was a free, all-ages event designed to showcase local culture and to help people shake off the... Read More...
Date: Mar. 14th, 2024 - 5:58 PM
Myrna Gillis, CEO of Aqualitas. The cannabis producer, based in Brooklyn, has been sold to a British firm. (Aqualitas photo)
Queens County cannabis producer Aqualitas has been sold to a British company.
The Brooklyn-based firm has been bought by the London-based Cannaray Limited. Aqualitas will become part of Cannaray’s medical cannabis division, Therismos, which operates in... Read More...
Date: Mar. 14th, 2024 - 2:49 PM
Queens General Hospital. Photo Ed Halverson
The emergency department at Queens General Hospital in Liverpool will be closed for the rest of Thursday and will reopen at midnight and be open on Friday.
It will close again for the weekend at 5 a.m. Saturday and reopen on Tuesday at 8 a.m.
Nova Scotia... Read More...
Date: Mar. 14th, 2024 - 2:17 PM
Queens County Transit has asked the Region of Queens for more funding. (Rick Conrad)
Queens County Transit has asked the Region of Queens for an extra $12,000 in funding for the 2024/25 fiscal year.
The region gave the ride service $38,000 last year.
Queens County Transit launched in 2018. It now has eight vehicles in its fleet, including... Read More...
Date: Mar. 13th, 2024 - 7:07 PM
Rosalee Smith is one of the Queens County residents participating in the YourHealthNS app pilot project. (Rick Conrad)
It’s been about six weeks since the Nova Scotia government launched a pilot project to allow some Nova Scotians to check their medical records through the YourHealthNS app.
Some 12,000 patients at four clinics around the province were given early access to... Read More...
Date: Mar. 12th, 2024 - 4:09 PM
The Region of Queens approved the next step Tuesday for Mersey River Wind farm development in Milton. (Mersey River Wind)
Queens County residents got one step closer on Tuesday to buying their electricity from wind power.
Region of Queens councillors approved a development agreement to allow a large-scale wind farm to go ahead in Milton.
Halifax-based Roswall Development Inc.,... Read More...
Date: Mar. 12th, 2024 - 4:00 PM
Joel Westin, president of Bridgewater Ready Mix, says he’s teaming up with South Shore Ready Mix to reopen Liverpool Ready Mix. (Rick Conrad photo)
A new concrete supplier could be open in Brooklyn by August.
Joel Westin, owner and president of Bridgewater Ready Mix, said his company and South Shore Ready Mix are teaming up to reopen Liverpool Ready Mix.
“South Shore Ready Mix operated a plant in... Read More...
Date: Mar. 11th, 2024 - 3:22 PM
Earl Mielke, a coach with Special Olympics Lunenburg/Queens, and his stepdaughter Rebecca Delaney recently returned from the national winter games in Calgary, where Delaney won a gold and a bronze medal. (Rick Conrad photo)
It may have been so cold that the first day had to be rescheduled, but for Liverpool athlete Rebecca Delaney, competing in her first national winter games was an experience she won’t forget.
Delaney, 27, won gold in the 100-metre snowshoe event at the Special... Read More...
Date: Mar. 11th, 2024 - 3:21 PM
Debris from the fish farm near Coffin Island on Beach Meadows Beach in 2021. (Rick Conrad photo)
April hearings into a proposed fish farm expansion in Liverpool Bay have been cancelled.
The Nova Scotia Aquaculture Review Board posted on its website last Wednesday that “all sessions of the hearing have been adjourned until further notice. Timeframes for... Read More...
Date: Mar. 9th, 2024 - 8:01 AM
Celeste Johnston from Hunts Point recently received her Order of Canada medal from Gov. Gen. Mary Simon at a ceremony in Ottawa. (Rick Conrad photo)
When the governor general’s office called Celeste Johnston to tell her she would be inducted into the Order of Canada, she almost didn’t pick up.
The medical researcher, professor and nurse had been getting a lot of spam calls from the Ottawa area code, so... Read More...