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• Clementsvale couple in fatal accident in Grosses Coques
  UPDATED: 8:30 AM 20120509 road conditions, fire departments. witness descriptions UPDATED: 4 PM fixed spelling in headline A Clementsvale ...
• Walking with your important people
  "Cars are for going places," my son said when he was 12. "Walking is for seeing places." He was right but there's more. I cherish every moment ...
• Shed fire in Bear River
  The Bear River Fire Department put out a shed fire before it could spread to a nearby house. No one lived at the property at 511 Middlesex Road ...
• Digby hosts Barton for basketball friendly
  Digby Elementary hosted Barton Consolidated School to a basketball friendly on Wednesday, May 2.
• Roll up your pennies for the Hallidays
  Penny buckets for the Hallidays will be in stores around the Digby area until mid-May.
• Transport de Clare looks to expand to Digby in...
  Transport de Clare wants to come to the Digby area this fall. Claredon Robicheau, president of the community-based transportation association, ...
• Tideview Pet Show
  Tideview Terrace held their second annual pet show, Saturday, April 21. Adults and children brought their cats, dogs, lizards and guinea pigs to ...
• Foodbank in a new home
  The Digby Foodbank held an open house Monday to thank the community for its supprt and to let people have a look round the new facilities. They ...
• Digby area to get 22 fisheries jobs
  The provincial Fisheries and Aquaculture department is moving 22 jobs out of Halifax and into the Digby area. Headquarters of the fisheries ...
• Feds to compensate fish farm for ISA losses
  The federal government will compensate Cooke Aquaculture for the hundreds of thousands of salmon ordered destroyed in Shelburne this week. The ...
• Firefighters put out house fire in Barton
  Firefighters extinguished a house fire in Barton before it spread much beyond the basement. No one had been living in the house at 7922 Highway 1 ...
• Look off in Smith's Cove
  Dean Kenley would like to see a look off on the 101 above Smith's Cove. "The view from up there with Bear Island, the Gut, the whole Annapolis ...
• Barton students off to regional heritage fair
  Barton school is sending six students to the regional heritage fair. Barton's own annual heritage fair and open house was Thursday, April 12. ...
• Acadians give boundary hearings a loud and colourful...
  The Acadians say "tintamarre". It means a loud parade where participants try and see how much noise they can make with whatever noisemaker they ...
• Students fundraise for ALS
  Business students at the Nova Scotia Community College in Digby have been busy fundraising for people living with ALS, a motor neuron disease. ...
• Special power rate approved for third Digby tidal...
  The province’s Department of Energy has approved a third Digby area tidal project to receive a special rate for its electricity. The department ...
• Old nurses' residence demolished
  It took eight months to build it and less than an hour to tear down the old nurses' residence. Using an excavator and several dump trucks, ...
• Tideview thanks its volunteers
  Elaine Hersey and her dog Candy are popular and regular visitors to the Tideview Terrace Home for Special Care. Two years ago staff and residents ...
• Kids helping kids in Kenya
  Three Digby high school students flew half round the world to dig a hole in a field. Karlee Perry, Zane Lynch and Sophie Amirault helped dig out ...
• Acacia Valley trail to get signs and sprucing up
  The Digby Tourism Association wants to help people find the Acacia Valley trails. They are applying for funding to install signs at the bottom of ...
• RCMP have a plan
  Local RCMP want to focus on catching distracted drivers. Digby staff sergeant Phil Barrett has completed his annual policing plan for 2012-2013. ...
• Town signs direct policing agreement, for now
  The town has signed a direct municipal policing service agreement (MPSA) with the RCMP. The previous 20-year-old MPSA expired the end of March ...
• Lifting half the swing span of Bear River bridge on...
  Crews lifted the first half of the swing span from the Bear River train bridge on Friday, April 13 without a problem. They were planning to lift ...
• Province changes small school funding again
  The provincial department of education has changed the way they fund small schools, again. Only two weeks ago, when members of the Tri-County ...
• Slashed tires and broken windows in Digby
  Digby RCMP are looking for assistance in solving these two crimes from March. Someone slashed tires at 27 Warwick Street on Sunday, March 25 at ...
• Funding for the foodbank
  The local foodbank wants $5,000 to $6,000 from the town of Digby to help its pay for day-to-day operational expenses. The foodbank has recently ...
• Fire truck rally needs your old wrecks
  The Digby Fire Department wants to cut up your old wreck. Brinton's Auto Salvage has agreed to prepare at least half-a-dozen vehicles for the ...
• Weymouth councillor will not reoffer in municipal...
  Randall Amero, the district councillor for Weymouth, will not reoffer this fall. Amero is the first municipal councilor in the Digby area to ...
• How old is a foot and a half?
  Some things are hard to measure. Mrs. Quigley of Sandy Cove told me a couple weeks after her hundredth birthday that inside she felt the same as ...
• Mrs. Quigley and Sandy Cove
  Gwen Quigley has had a 100-year love affair with Sandy Cove. She was born in Springhill March 14, 1912 but moved with her family a few months ...