Local Lifestyles
SENIOR LIVING: Physiotherapy tips to garden with greater ease
As the snow melts, many seniors will be eager to get out into the fresh air and wake their gardens up for a new season. Gardening and yard work are great ways to connect with nature and get several hours of weekly physical activity. As a result, they ...
SENIOR LIVING: The art and science of aging well
Getting older doesn’t have to mean experiencing a lower quality of life. In fact, believing we can thrive while aging has been linked to living a longer, healthier life. It’s a compelling piece of science that Dr. Keri-Leigh Cassidy, a geriatric ...
Local Winemaker Wins Prestigious Award
Nova Scotia winemaker receives a national winemaking award, marking a first for the province.
‘It’s such a joyful thing to witness’: The Music Room in Yarmouth striking the right chord
Around five years ago, The Music Room was merely an idea. Now, it’s become a community institution. The Yarmouth-based instrument lending library started because David Durkee was looking to step back from his full-time job as a music teacher. “To be ...
Red carpet to Juno stage, stars shine in Halifax
Fans crowded into a pen to watch Canada’s music royalty sashay down the red carpet on the way to the Junos on Sunday night. “I’m a big fan of everything to do with music so I’m really excited in general,” said Lilly Balcom from Dartmouth who brought ...
Nova Scotia musicians shut out on opening night at Junos
Jah’Mila, Halifax’s reggae queen, electrified the Junos crowd on Saturday night but unfortunately didn’t walk away with a statuette. It was opening night at the Juno Awards, with over 40 awards given out at the Halifax Convention Centre ahead of the ...
Cape Breton theatre shines with eight nominations for Merritt awards
Cape Breton's theatre scene has caught the spotlight again, securing eight nominations for the 2024 Robert Merritt Awards. The award ceremony, scheduled for April 15 at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth, will honour the best of Nova Scotia theatre for ...
A look back in time: Antigonish Heritage Museum makes archives of 'The Casket' available to the public
It’s not every day that you come across newspapers that are over 100 years old. When the office of The Casket, a newspaper in Antigonish, N.S., now owned by SaltWire, was being closed down, Chronicle Herald reporter Aaron Beswick thought that these ...
Bright Side
Cape Breton volunteer's jumbo curling rock a hit with world curling championship teams
There’s one curling rock that’s all the talk among players at the World Women’s Curling Championship — and it’s not one that’s being thrown this week on the Centre 200 ice. In fact, this nearly four-foot, 90-pound stone would instead cover half of ...
Author Brenda Thompson’s Black Loyalist research digs up horrors of Maritime history
Brenda Thompson’s research into the lives of Black Loyalists and their descendants in Nova Scotia hasn’t been all heart-warming discoveries. In fact, it’s been the opposite. “Pretty horrified, for the most part,” she said in a recent interview of her ...