Impaired driving stats show consistency
FALL RIVER: The number of drivers charged by Halifax District RCMP with impaired driving in the Fall River and Beaver Bank area has remained consistent over the past five years, statistics obtained by The...
Glaze Report aimed at healing fractured education system: Churchill
ENFIELD: The Province of Nova Scotia is looking at healing a fractured education system by accepting all of the recommendations in the Glaze Report, including the axing of seven of the elected school boards...
Support Animo in JA contest
FALL RIVER: Lockview High-based Animo, a Junior Achievement company, are looking for your support in a Junior Achievement of Nova Scotia contest on Facebook.
The group of hard-working students has created these awesome hoodies, which...
Good Day Cafe a destination for locals
FALL RIVER: Sarah MacLennan saw a need for a local cafe, and the space was available in Fall River in the old Chef’s Jeff location.
Seeing that everything was in place pretty much for her...
Glaze Report will make things worse: Teacher
FALL RIVER: Teachers are worried about what the implementation of the Glaze Report by the provincial government will mean for their profession, but more importantly, classrooms.
Ron Nugent, the Guidance Counsellor at Georges P. Vanier...
Safety issues leave residents fed up
BEAVER BANK: Residents of Sandy Lake Road in north Beaver Bank are fed up with having to risk their safety to go to work and get their children to school during the winter.
Two of...
COLUMN: Not letting depression stop me
Do you ever have days where you want to just stay in bed, under the warm blankets and not get up? I don’t mean those days you want to be lazy or are still...
HRSB board rep sad about dismissal
FALL RIVER: The local Halifax Regional School Board (HRSB) representative feels sad that she and her colleagues are being dismissed by the provincial government.
Bridget Ann Boutilier was responding to one of the recommendations in...
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...
Parent thinks more at play than just a bus stop cancellation
FLETCHERS LAKE: A parent of a student at Holland Road School has had their afternoon bus stop cancelled, meaning their child will have to walk home.
Amanda Castle says when she spoke with STOCK Bus...