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PHOTOS: Haunted High at LHS

FALL RIVER: This character gave many the willies as he came towards them with a chainsaw in hand during Lockview’s Haunted High on Oct. 30 in Fall River. (Healey photo) Reporter...
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Keloose organizers looking for more parental supervision

WINDSOR JUNCTION: The chairman of Keloose is encouraging parents to not just drop their child off to attend the festivities and the fireworks, but to instead join them. Nick Yeomans said in the past they...
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Traffic delays expected on Windsor Junction Road

WINDSOR JUNCTION: Road construction is set for Sept. 18 and Sept. 19 on Windsor Junction Road between Fall River Road and Cobequid Road. In a release late on the afternoon of Sept. 17, HRM spokeswoman...
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Revocation of permit for quarry heads back to court next week

MILLER LAKE WEST: It’s back to the courtrooms next week for the proponent looking to construct a quarry in the Fall River/Goffs area, and the residents fighting against it. Scotian Materials is appealing their industrial...
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Wait almost over for Riverlake Syrian Refugee Project

FALL RIVER: Anytime the phone rings at Sue MacLean’s house in Fall River, she jumps up with excitement—and nervousness—that it could be “the call." MacLean is the chairwoman of the volunteer-based Riverlake Syrian Refuegee Project—a...

Educating through entrepreneurship

WAVERLEY: Three young girls are getting a savoury taste of what owning and operating their own business is like. Sophie Wells of Waverley; Lauren Fulton of Waverley; and Taylor Montgomery of Windsor Junction, all students...

Johns grabs PC nomination in Sackville-Beaver Bank

BEAVER BANK: The former Councillor for District 14 Middle/Upper Sackville-Lucasville-Beaver Bank has won the PC Party nomination for Sackville-Beaver Bank for the upcoming provincial election. At a nomination meeting on March 9, Brad Johns defeated...

Laker writer helps fifth graders learn about journalism

NOTE: The following was written by a Waverley Memorial School student on Reporter Pat Healey’s visit and teaching them about journalism. By: Isaac Williams WAVERLEY: On Friday, June 14, the children in Mrs.Trider’s class...
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Parents promise public won’t forget Liberals missteps on teachers

FALL RIVER: The battle between the N.S. Teachers Union (NSTU) and the provincial government in Nova Scotia has similar resemblances to that of what took place in B.C. in 2016, say two staunch teacher...
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