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It was announced in the same edition that a regional vocational school was to be built in Yarmouth at the corner of Hibernia and Pleasant streets. The hope was to have tenders called before the end of the year, an official said.

35 YEARS AGO

Work had begun on the first of two overpasses on the Greenville Road. The first of the structures was being built where the Greenville Road was to pass over Highway 103. The project was expected to cost about $200,000 and be finished in a couple of months, The Vanguard reported in its July 11, 1973 edition. The other overpass would be built over the new 101 highway.

The Town of Yarmouth’s police force was to begin having an officer patrolling the downtown shopping district overnight. The town’s police committee reportedly had agreed to purchase walkie-talkie equipment to be used by the officer doing the overnight downtown patrol.

A Yarmouth County village got a plug on national TV when artist James Keirsted appeared on CBC’s Luncheon Date program (hosted by Elwood Glover) with a painting depicting a fog-shrouded Sandford wharf scene.

30 YEARS AGO

The serious state of the Town of Yarmouth’s water system was in the news again. The level of the water in the town’s reservoir was low and water customers – notably industrial users – were urged to be as efficient as possible in their use of water.

Despite a request from the manager of Kmart Plaza that the Town of Yarmouth install sidewalks on Starrs Road the town had no plans to do so. According to a town official, the provincial highways department would not cost-share the sidewalks and the town had other priorities anyway besides sidewalks.

25 YEARS AGO

A provincial task force was expressing concern over the amount of television people were watching and was urging that action be taken to get people – especially youth – more physically active.

Local students seemed to be having more luck finding jobs in the summer of 1983 than they had the year before. Figures from the student employment centre for the end of June showed the job placement rate up 71 per cent from the previous year.

20 YEARS AGO

Officials with the Maritime Fishermen’s Union were calling for a third party – not the Department of Fisheries and Oceans – to conduct a major socioeconomic study of the lobster fishery. Plans for the study had been announced after the suspension of four new offshore lobster licences by Tom Siddon, the DFO minister at the time. The MFU had vehemently opposed the issuance of those licences, saying their use could have an impact on inshore lobster stocks.

A bill that would ban petroleum exploration on George Bank for at least a dozen years had passed its last hurdle in the House of Commons, receiving all-party support during its third reading.

15 YEARS AGO

Stories in The Vanguard’s July 13, 1993 edition included one about the site review process for a new school to replace the Milton and Hebron elementary schools (eight sites were being considered); a story about the impact on the Yarmouth Development Corporation of cuts to federal summer student employment programs; and one about the commercial potential of cranberries in Yarmouth County.