Arts & Entertainment

Joyful Sounds students finding success

FALL RIVER: Students at Joyful Sounds have brought home some hardware from the Kiwanis Music Festival, helped along by a fun Musical Olympics at the Fall River studio. While the Kiwanis Music Festival continues, they...
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Hannigan scores Grammy Award

WAVERLEY: A musician from Waverley, who now calls Hamburg, Germany home scored a big—and surprising—win at the Grammy Awards on Jan. 28. Barb Hannigan, born and raised in the community near Fall River, took home...
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From Nova Scotia to Hollywood

DARTMOUTH: Inside Huminah Huminah Animation, animators are hard at work on creating the next episodes in the recently-launched Chomp Squad series. Located in Dartmouth Adam Mimnagh has his 50-plus or so animators diligently working on...
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Young Fall River dancer vying for music video spot

FALL RIVER: A Fall River dancer is one of four finalists for BACKSTAGE: Studio Pass, a web series coming to Family Channel’s YouTube channel. Brooklyn Law, who now lives in Bedford and attends Summit Academy,...

The Legacy Letters “like ripping a band-aid off an old wound,” says Landry

FALL RIVER: Sitting inside Good Day Cafe that is situated next to Lake Thomas in Fall River, Janice Landry speaks eloquently about the motivation behind her latest book, The Legacy Letters. Inside the book by...

WE Day Atlantic leaves change-makers feeling inspired, excited

HALIFAX: Inspired. Excited. Eager. That’s how thousands of energetic and screaming students were left feeling as they headed home from the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax on Nov. 30 from WE Day Atlantic, which featured a...

Arts & Craft sale raises $1,100 for Lions Xmas Express

WAVERLEY: The N.S. Arts & Crafts sale held last month at the Waverley Legion raised $1,100 for the Lions Christmas Express food drive through a raffle of a basket of goodies. Presenting the cheque are...

Getting in the Christmas spirit through art

WAVERLEY: Leona MacDougall of Waverley was trying to get the community in the Christmas spirit as she held a Holiday Art and Bake Sale at her Rolling Hills Drive home on Nov. 25. The artisan...

FIRST PERSON: Giving acting a shot

WAVERLEY: I did something I had never done before—I was an actor in a murder mystery dinner theatre. On Sept. 30, Party Patrol Events Company, owned and operated by the wonderful Shera-Lee Kerr of Fall...

Locals earn Joey Awards nominations

FALL RIVER: Three actors from the Fall River area have earned nominations for their roles on TV and in a film. Max Humphreys of Miller Lake West; Lewis Coverdale of Fall River, a 2016 Lockview...
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