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• Hants County native reflects on overseas service
  By Ashley Thompson TC•Media Shawn Fletcher is looking forward to some peace and quiet after a 25-year military career that proved to be anything ...
• Food bank seeking land in Hantsport
  By Ashley Thompson athompson@hantsjournal.ca Hantsport and Area Community Food Bank volunteers are asking the Town of Hantsport for some land. ...
• Walk through history at Castle Frederick Farm
  By Ashley Thompson athompson@hantsjournal.ca The Bremner family is inviting the public to tour the walking trails at their historic homestead as ...
• Milk man says the mood’s good East Noel farm
  By Ashley Thompson Santa’s feast of choice — milk and cookies — makes him an A-OK guy in Phillip Vroegh’s book. Vroegh owns Sunny Point Farms, a ...
• Hantsport couple mourning loss of Bounty
  By Ashley Thompson TC Media A Bishopville man says a piece of his heart will forever belong to the lost at sea HMS Bounty. Randy Carey learned ...
• Grocery shop with eyes wide open
  By Ashley Thompson TC MEDIA Dietitian Anne Marie Armstrong often jokes most people can go grocery shopping with their eyes closed. That’s not ...
• Sing it loud, sing it proud
  By Ashley ThompsonDave Parker’s upbeat ditty inspired by his hometown’s claim to fame has something Stompin’ Tom’s ode to the good ole hockey ...
• Greening the farm
  By Ashley Thompson A Hants County farm family is reaping the rewards of thinking green. The Martock-based W. G. Oulton & Sons was named the ...
• Annapolis Valley roller derby league recruiting...
  BY ASHLEY THOMPSONThe Hants Journal When Amanda ‘Demanda Beating' Brown reunites with her former teammates from the Halifax Roller Derby ...
• Kings-Hants on Ottawa’s radar
  The Kings-Hants riding continues to attract Conservative MPs more than two months after Liberal incumbent Scott Brison held on to his seat in ...
• Busy hands knit comfy breast prostheses
  BY ASHLEY THOMPSON The Hants Journal It’s uncommon to find Leota Daniels sitting with idle hands. She has far too many bras to fill to lay her ...
• A woman worthy of merit
  BY ASHLEY THOMPSON The Hants Journal Before Ena Matheson died, she lived. It wasn’t fame, fortune or even good health that made Ena’s life ...
• Harper rallies support in Windsor
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the Kings-Hants riding traditionally dominated by Liberal incumbent Scott Brison Saturday to urge Tory ...
• Minister of Industry tours Kings-Hants riding
  Canada’s Minister of Industry Tony Clement can now check visiting Windsor and dining in Blomidon off his bucket list. After a short stop in ...
• Martock preps for Canada Games
  BY ASHLEY THOMPSON The Hants Journal The 2011 Canada Winter Games may quickly come and go this February, but the venues fit for elite athletes ...
• CRA grants fossil museum charitable status
  The Blue Beach Fossil Museum just west of Hantsport may look small, but it’s a big deal in the study of paleontology. And, with a little help ...
• Hantsport scores new equipment for community playground
  The playground on the Hantsport Memorial Community Centre (HMCC) grounds will likely see some well-needed upgrades this summer. Karrie Balsor, ...
• Brothers denied bail
  Two brothers charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of an 18-year-old Dartmouth teen in October will not be released on bail. On Dec. ...
• Glooscap polling results expected to be released soon
  Band members of the highly-publicized Glooscap First Nation reserve in Bishopville are expected to learn who their new councillor will be ...
• Trailer Park Boys’ star coming to Windsor
  Jim Lahey will be stumbling out of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park and heading to the Spitfire Arms Pub in Windsor. Actor John Dunsworth, known to ...
• Farmer stands strong in “lonely industry”
  Danette te Bogt says life after Larsens is possible for hog farmers. “I will not quit,” she said during an interview at the te Bogt Hermanus ...
• New NSFA president pushes for policy
  BY ASHLEY THOMPSON The Hants Journal From early morning feedings to general meetings, Beth Densmore is one busy farmer —and president. The ...
• Glooscap chief talks money
  Glooscap First Nation Chief Shirley Clarke says their band council will bring in the new year vowing to govern with transparency, accountability ...
• Glooscap resident requests community meeting
  Brian Smith feels an emergency meeting is in order to help repair the relationships between leaders of the Glooscap First Nation reserve and ...
• Rockers win big
  When it comes to making music, S.S. Khandalla’s Ryan Langdon, Evan Stoney, Justin Tousignan, and Danaan Pederson seem to have a knack for ...
• Eye in the sky
  The town of Hantsport is hoping to have eyes in the sky before the snow flies. CAO Jeffrey Lawrence said purchase orders have been issued for ...
• Older brother found guilty of hate crime
  Two brothers accused of burning a cross on the lawn of an interracial Poplar Grove couple last February are awaiting sentencing after being ...
• Rock stars in the making
  A group of teenage rockers in the Valley may soon have the chance to prepare a radio-ready single in CBC’s Studio H. Comprised of ...
• Vote Valley band for best high school sound
  BY ASHLEY THOMPSON The Hants Journal A group of teenage rockers in the Valley may soon have the chance to prepare a radio-ready single in CBC’s ...
• Conor Cox makes Axeman starting line
  Conor Cox, a starting wide receiver for the Acadia Axemen’s football team, is a hard guy to touch base with. After a solid week of playing ...