Profile of Jeanne Whitehead/Digby

All articles of Jeanne Whitehead/Digby

• DATA needs dollars
  In the past few months the area’s tourism association has erected interpretive signs in Digby, Freeport, Smiths Cove, Belliveau Cove, Weymouth, ...
• A vision for Digby’s future
  Brittain is heading up the committee that is developing the town’s ‘integrated community sustainability plan’ (ICSP). That’s a fancy name for a ...
• Municipality’s ICSP meetings get underway next week
  Public meetings will be held Tuesday, June 16, in Tiverton, June 17 at the Seabrook municipal office, and June 18 at Weymouth Consolidated School ...
• A metamorphosis in the classroom
  Laughter and shrieks filled the classroom as the children watched them darting about. … Just two short weeks prior to that first flight the ...
• DES students respond to challenge, read 44,000 books
  The school’s 380 students read a total of 44,000 books during the challenge period that began last Dec. 1. A number of the students received ...
• Trask brothers plead guilty
  Originally charged with first-degree murder, Aaron Trask, 36, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. John Trask, 24, pleaded guilty to ...
• The end of an elm
  And just as ancient pets are euthanized by their caring owners, it was deemed by town council and the owners of nearby properties that the trees ...
• Clammers worry as prices plummet
  Weir, who is spokesman for the Annapolis-Digby Clam Harvesters Association, says it’s impossible to earn a reasonable wage from clamming these ...
• Dollar’s rise means lower prices for clammers
  Walker says it’s also one of the reasons that her company is offering lower prices for clams this year. “Most of our products sell south of the ...
• Jury duty
  A man waiting impatiently outside the courthouse said his number was ‘in the 600s.’ “I’m pretty sure this is for the Wayne Doucette trial,” the ...
• A wild and wooly weekend
  May 29, seven women–one from Newfoundland and half a dozen from points throughout Nova Scotia–checked into Brier Island Lodge and spent the ...
• Watch out for the other guy
  A witness said he believed the driver of the 1992 Grand Prix lived further along Montague Row. He apparently did not see the truck coming at him. ...
• Island restaurateur to be featured on Food Channel
  Crawford and her Red Apple Entertainment T.V. crew visited Lavena’s Catch Café last week to tape a Nova Scotia segment of a yet-to-be-named 2010 ...
• Ramping up for the Relay
  The annual event is the community’s biggest fundraiser. Last year, more than $93,000 was donated to the Canadian Cancer Society as a result of ...
• Digby's Relay for Life
  “I remember it was at a family gathering that it all started. I threw something into a pond and then I cried out in pain. But the cry said more ...
• Got hair?
  The relay will need a whole new crop of donors because those who volunteered to have their heads shaved or hair cut last year do not yet have ...
• Right whale births at record levels
  "They’ll actually stay in the Bay of Fundy into October,” says Tony Lacasse. Lacasse is spokesperson for the New England Aquarium whose ...
• Apple Blossom Festival kicks off May 27
  Queen Annapolisa, as she is known on the festival circuit, has just completed the third year of her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at ...
• Couple will cycle the Americas
  The pair pedaled into Digby May 10, spent the night at the Backpacker's Inn, and on Monday made their way to the ferry terminal after a stop at ...
• Harbour development ‘critical to future’ of Digby
  The plans, which were developed by Skip Cormier of Cormier Management Consulting and Gordon Mouland of Fundy Engineering, were unveiled May 5 in ...
• ‘Phase three’ to make downtown Digby a destination
  Skip Cormier calls it ‘phase three of the proposed solution’ and he sees it happening eight to 10 years down the road. Cormier envisions ...
• Crowds turn up for Emergency Preparedness Day
  An RCMP service dog named ‘Bo’ showed how he sniffs out drugs and apprehends bad guys, and members of the local RCMP detachment demonstrated how ...
• Check your numbers
  The winning numbers were: 14-23-28-30-35-37.
• Wind farm heads to assessment phase
  SkyPower is inviting the public to submit written comments to Nova Scotia’s Environmental Assessment Branch on or before May 30. An ...
• Area’s volunteers honored at dinner
  Burnham seized the opportunity to address the awards dinner and advise people to speak up and lobby politicians if they want to save the ferry ...
• Father fears for family's health
  April 28, Duston Stevenson was informed by an employee of G.K. Morse that the pipes carrying water into his home at 180 Culloden Rd. were made of ...
• Proposed teacher cuts anger Island parents
  For Westport Village School, the proposal means a reduction from two to just one teacher for students in grades primary to grade 6. At Islands ...
• Town’s pursestrings may be tight
  Trinity Anglican Church is hoping for $1,000 to help fund its summer tour guide program. Tri-County VON is counting on the town for $2,000. ...
• Couple subject of many complaints, charges woman
  Power suggested that had the couple been cruel to animals, there would have been more complaints over the years considering the number of dogs ...
• Clammers face uncertain future
  Jerry Ryan figures clam harvesting in Annapolis Digby is nearing the end of an era. The Marshalltown man is convinced that within a couple of ...