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A worker at Cosmos Imperial Mills in the 1920s. Nova Scotia Archives – Yarmouth County Museum and Archives

THEN AND NOW: Yarmouth cotton mill wove more than threads together – ...

Sailing vessels and lumber line Weymouth's busy waterfront in this early 20th century photo. The village was a center for many businesses and services up until the October 2,1929 fire destroyed much of the downtown business section of the village.

THEN AND NOW: Weymouth – reshaped by history and by fire

Second World War veteran Guy Adams with daughter Margery Ellison. “He taught me integrity, respect for people, generosity, kindness; everything that he is,” she says. “He taught by example.” ANGELA MCMULLEN PHOTO

THEN AND NOW: ‘Be yourself’ says veteran as he ponders long life

Lisette Gaudet, archivist at the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives, holds an issue of the Yarmouth Telegram from the 1800s. The weekly paper, composed of just a few pages, featured news from around the world and had no pictures.

THEN AND NOW: Digitizing the past at Yarmouth County Museum

Jess Cranton of Belleisle, Annapolis County, is heading to the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alberta Feb. 23. She’ll be vying for a medal in figure skating, but if she doesn’t get it, that’s okay. The kids she looks after at the school where she’s an educational assistant already presented her with a medal.

Twice in a lifetime - Belleisle’s figure skating Jess Cranton gets ...

The St. Jude Hotel has been rebranded as the Quality Hotel.

Clarenville’s St. Jude Hotel rebranded as Quality Hotel

Annie Sloan shows us how to be bold with botanical wallpaper by Cole & Son in her new bookazine, The Colourist, The Art of Colourful Living.

DEBBIE TRAVIS: How to decorate using bold botanicals

Before you start thinking about what type of storage you want, remember — no matter how great a piece looks in a store or online, do not buy anything without doing some homework first.

STAGEHAND: Some tips for storing the things we love

Yarmouth Justice Centre. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Six people before the courts in connections with Barrington attempted ...

2013 Dodge Charger

USED WHEELS: 2011+ Dodge Charger/Chrysler 300 offer good value

Sailing vessels and lumber line Weymouth's busy waterfront in this early 20th century photo. The village was a center for many businesses and services up until the October 2,1929 fire destroyed much of the downtown business section of the village.

THEN AND NOW: Weymouth – reshaped by history and by fire

Updated Feb 20, 2019 at 7:15 p.m.

Second World War veteran Guy Adams with daughter Margery Ellison. “He taught me integrity, respect for people, generosity, kindness; everything that he is,” she says. “He taught by example.” ANGELA MCMULLEN PHOTO

THEN AND NOW: ‘Be yourself’ says veteran as he ponders long life

Published Feb 20, 2019 at 7:05 p.m.

Lisette Gaudet, archivist at the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives, holds an issue of the Yarmouth Telegram from the 1800s. The weekly paper, composed of just a few pages, featured news from around the world and had no pictures.

THEN AND NOW: Digitizing the past at Yarmouth County Museum

Published 6 hours ago

Jess Cranton of Belleisle, Annapolis County, is heading to the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alberta Feb. 23. She’ll be vying for a medal in figure skating, but if she doesn’t get it, that’s okay. The kids she looks after at the school where she’s an educational assistant already presented her with a medal.

Twice in a lifetime - Belleisle’s figure skating Jess Cranton gets second shot at Canada Games

Updated 6 hours ago

News

Yarmouth Justice Centre. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Six people before the courts in connections with Barrington attempted murder investigation

Updated 6 hours ago

Shelburne Roseway Hospital. (Tina Comeau)

Roseway Hospital ER closing Thursday, Feb.21 - 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Published Feb 20, 2019 at 3:47 p.m.

RCMP

Adjournment sought in first court appearance for RCMP member facing sexual assault and voyeurism charges

Updated a day ago

Stewart Deveau (left), chief fire prevention officer with the Yarmouth Fire Department, and Yarmouth Fire Chief John Verrall.

THEN AND NOW: Fire departments struggling with volunteer recruitment numbers

Updated a day ago

Living

Lisette Gaudet, archivist at the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives, holds an issue of the Yarmouth Telegram from the 1800s. The weekly paper, composed of just a few pages, featured news from around the world and had no pictures.

THEN AND NOW: Digitizing the past at Yarmouth County Museum

Published 6 hours ago

This is the cast of “The Bachelor” season 23. -ABC/Submitted

KEELY TURNER: Franchise secrets of ‘The Bachelor’

Published Feb 19, 2019 at 8:05 p.m.

A worker at Cosmos Imperial Mills in the 1920s. Nova Scotia Archives – Yarmouth County Museum and Archives

THEN AND NOW: Yarmouth cotton mill wove more than threads together – workers became family

Updated Feb 20, 2019 at 5:51 p.m.

Ed Vincent

Remembering Ed ‘Bud’ Vincent

Updated Feb 19, 2019 at 2:35 p.m.

Business

The St. Jude Hotel has been rebranded as the Quality Hotel.

Clarenville’s St. Jude Hotel rebranded as Quality Hotel

Updated 8 hours ago

The price of gasoline in Nova Scotia is likely to increase by about two cents a litre mid-February, due to a proposed change in how the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board calculates the price.

Price of gas likely to rise about 2 cents a litre under UARB plan

Updated Feb 05, 2019 at 12:39 p.m.

Cape Breton songstress, the late Rita MacNeil, opened the tea room in 1986. In a post on their official Facebook page, it was announced that the iconic tourist stop will be closed this season.

Rita’s Tea Room in Big Pond to close

Updated Feb 04, 2019 at 7:35 p.m.

Neil LeBlanc, owner of Growing Green Earthworm Castings, holds a handful of alfalfa meal, one of a dozen organic additions to Kryptonite, a specially formulated growing soil for marijuana.

Demand growing for soil designed by Wedgeport business for growing cannabis

Updated Jan 29, 2019 at 2:42 p.m.

Sports

Jess Cranton of Belleisle, Annapolis County, is heading to the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alberta Feb. 23. She’ll be vying for a medal in figure skating, but if she doesn’t get it, that’s okay. The kids she looks after at the school where she’s an educational assistant already presented her with a medal.

Twice in a lifetime - Belleisle’s figure skating Jess Cranton gets second shot at Canada Games

Updated 6 hours ago

Head coaches Brad Peddle, left, of St. F.X. and Darren Burns of Acadia are banned for two games in the wake of last weekend’s hockey brawl in Wolfville, along with 13 players from the teams. Two other players - one from each team - got harsher sanctions. - Tim Krochak / file photos

AUS suspends 15 players, plus head coaches in wake of St. F.X.-Acadia hockey brawl

Updated Feb 08, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

Andrew Little, representing team Wentworth grabs some big air during the freestyle competition at Ski Martock.

SLIDESHOW: Freestyle skiers kick off competition season at Ski Martock

Published Feb 05, 2019 at 3:53 p.m.

The Yarmouth Mariners had a 5-1 Feb 1 win and a 4-2 Feb 2 win over the Amherst Ramblers at home. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Two big wins for Yarmouth Mariners with weekend home wins over Amherst Ramblers

Updated Feb 05, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

Opinion

Elections P.E.I. ballot box

EDITORIAL: Electoral homework

Updated 9 hours ago

Russia is going to test the idea of retreating to its own closed intranet system. —

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Russia planning solo mission in cyberspace

Updated a day ago

Jim Vibert

VIBERT: Grits go for old-school political tactics

Published Feb 15, 2019 at 6 a.m.

The Liberal Party of Canada seems to have returned to its traditional modus operandi. —

EDITORIAL: Liberal sleight of hand

Updated a day ago

Community

Marilyn Francis, Kenny Francis, and Malcolm Francis hold the plaque honouring Victor Francis, who in 1972 won a human rights discrimination suit against the Town of Annapolis Royal. The plaque replaces one that disappeared years ago.

Making it right - The courage of Victor Francis recognized at Annapolis Royal town hall

Updated a day ago

Roy Beals has led an extraordinary life as a hunter, fisherman, trapper, and artisan, amassing a large collection of trophies and works of art. He’s the subject of an exhibition at Macdonald Museum in Middleton starting Feb. 18.

Life of Lawrencetown’s outdoorsman Roy Beals subject of museum exhibit

Updated Feb 15, 2019 at 10:10 a.m.

Eva Robicheau at the Meadows, the long-term care facility in Yarmouth where she lives. She's turned 108 years old.

Happy birthday! Yarmouth resident Eva Robicheau turns 108

Updated Feb 18, 2019 at 5:13 p.m.

Geraldine Browning, left, spoke about growing up in Nova Scotia as a black person during ‘An Afternoon with Geraldine Browning’ Feb. 7 at the Macdonald Museum in Middleton. With her was her son Scott and in the audience was Middleton’s Catherine Tolbart.

‘I went home and I cried.’ Geraldine Browning talks about the struggles of growing up black in Nova Scotia

Updated Feb 14, 2019 at 11:08 a.m.

Recent Stories

Lisette Gaudet, archivist at the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives, holds an issue of the Yarmouth Telegram from the 1800s. The weekly paper, composed of just a few pages, featured news from around the world and had no pictures.

THEN AND NOW: Digitizing the past at Yarmouth County Museum

Jess Cranton of Belleisle, Annapolis County, is heading to the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alberta Feb. 23. She’ll be vying for a medal in figure skating, but if she doesn’t get it, that’s okay. The kids she looks after at the school where she’s an educational assistant already presented her with a medal.

Twice in a lifetime - Belleisle’s figure skating Jess Cranton gets second shot at Canada Games

The St. Jude Hotel has been rebranded as the Quality Hotel.

Clarenville’s St. Jude Hotel rebranded as Quality Hotel

Annie Sloan shows us how to be bold with botanical wallpaper by Cole & Son in her new bookazine, The Colourist, The Art of Colourful Living.

DEBBIE TRAVIS: How to decorate using bold botanicals

Before you start thinking about what type of storage you want, remember — no matter how great a piece looks in a store or online, do not buy anything without doing some homework first.

STAGEHAND: Some tips for storing the things we love

Yarmouth Justice Centre. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Six people before the courts in connections with Barrington attempted murder investigation

2013 Dodge Charger

USED WHEELS: 2011+ Dodge Charger/Chrysler 300 offer good value

Hubert Howse as a lifeguard at The Wave in January.

More than a pool: Lifeguard Hubert Howse says swimming was his life-changer

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RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Let’s make sure journalism is what we’re doing

Yarmouth Justice Centre. TINA COMEAU PHOTO

Court appearances held for four people facing charges in connection with assault on Yarmouth teenager

Annapolis RCMP Crime Report looks at the weekly calls for service police answer.

Annapolis District RCMP respond to break-ins, thefts, and potholes