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• Cancer survivor’s team wins Relay For Life...
  THORBURN – When Marilyn DeCoste was diagnosed with cancer in 2005, she was informed that it was likely she wouldn’t survive. “They gave me three ...
• Pictou County road leading in CAA campaign of worst...
  RIVER JOHN – Voting is underway in Atlantic Canada as the Canadian Auto Association seeks to find the worst road in the region. The people of ...
• New Glasgow Farmers Market opens Saturday
  NEW GLASGOW – Tables upon tables of grass-fed beef, fresh local produce and a potpourri of other items will be back at the big white tent along ...
• New Glasgow Farmer's Market opens Saturday
  NEW GLASGOW - The New Glasgow Farmers Market Cooperative will be starting this Saturday on May 18 on Jury St. The market, now being managed by ...
• Westville garden club hosting annual plant sale
  WESTVILLE – The Westville and Area Gardening Club will be holding a plant sale at the Holy Name Church in Westville on May 18 starting at 9 ...
• Major vehicle collision at Exit 23
  Pictou County District RCMP are investigating a two-vehicle collision that occurred near exit 23 on Highway 104 at approximately 1:30 ...
• Personal trainer’s three-year transformation gets...
  NEW GLASGOW – For Kyle Hynick, everything is working out – literally. And well over two million people have noticed. Hynick, a personal trainer ...
• Canada Road Safety Week: May 13-20
  NEW GLASGOW - Const. Graham of the New Glasgow Regional Police Service 'stops' a suspicious vehicle in this posed photo on Tuesday. May ...
• All dressed up
  NEW GLASGOW – A new shop in New Glasgow’s downtown is turning heads with its exuberant mannequins, wigs and other paraphernalia in the windows. ...
• Local lobster: sold out
  NEW GLASGOW – In the 26 years that Lismore Lobster has been in business, the staff have never seen the lobster fisherman agree on an issue with ...
• Strike up the Stadacona Band
  NEW GLASGOW - L.S. Natalie Alcorm, far left, looks on as Lt.-Cmdr. Ray Murray directs the Navy's Stadacona Band. The concert, which took place at ...
• Track districts in Stellarton
  STELLARTON - Scott MacIntosh of Highland Consolidated Middle School takes part in the intermediate boys 4 x 100 metre relay at Pioneer Coal Track ...
• Observing Sexual Assault Awareness Month
  The Pictou County Women's Centre, along with the Pictou County Centre for Sexual Health will be promoting a community-wide Denim Day on May ...
• Pick-up compost at Pictou County Solid Waste
  PICTOU COUNTY - Ed Harper, left, and Nick Fraser take a break from filling up bags of compost at the Pictou County Solid Waste . Residents of the ...
• Beaches in Pictou County: Where you can swim, relax...
  Melmerby Beach Provincial ParkMelmerby Beach Provincial Park is located in Little Harbour and is a popular 2-km beach with boardwalks. The beach ...
• First Choice Hair Cutters gives back
  NEW GLASGOW - Manager Pam Smith of First Choice Hair Cutters in New Glasgow styles Shirley Munroe's hair at their Westville Rd location. For this ...
• Baillie supports local PC candidates
  STELLARTON – PC Party faithful and their Pictou County candidates gathered at the Stellarton Fire Hall on Saturday to rally community support for ...
• Setting up for success
  STELLARTON – It’s not every day a star athlete comes back home to offer a clinic to the youth of his home county, but that’s exactly what Rod ...
• Getting kids hooked on fishing
  TRENTON – The Pictou County Rivers Association (PCRA) will hold its 15th Annual Children’s Fisherama at Trenton Park on May 18. The event ...
• On the Road to Recovery
  NEW GLASGOW – Around 30 people gathered for the second annual Road to Recovery Walk put on the Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia in ...
• Rod Walsh teaches at girls volleyball camp
  STELLARTON - Local volleyball star Rod Walsh of Merigomish was in Stellarton today instructing at a girls volleyball camp. Walsh, a graduate of ...
• Road to Recovery walk in New Glasgow
  NEW GLASGOW – The Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia is holding its fifth annual Road to Recovery Walk in partnership with the Pictou County ...
• PC leader Baillie in Stellarton
  PC leader Jamie Baillie speaks with a supporter at the Stellarton Fire Hall today. PC MLAs and candidates, including those in Pictou County are ...
• Stellarton tattoo artist raises funds for Lyme...
  STELLARTON – George Smith is a tattoo artist who is raising money so a girl with Lyme disease can receive treatment, because he wants her to get ...
• Spring fling at Temperance St. School
  NEW GLASGOW - Leah Decoff, right and Emily Scott hold the skipping rope for Skye Hare at Temperance St. School yesterday. The school celebrated ...
• UPDATED: House fire in Thorburn
  Pictou County RCMP can confirm that there were no injuries or fatalities other than a family pet. No one was at home at the time. THORBURN ...
• MORE reason to celebrate: ‘Born this Way’ theme...
  PICTOU COUNTY – People gathered and lined the streets of Pictou, Westville, Stellarton, New Glasgow, Trenton and surrounding points by the ...
• Students participate in Call to Remember Program
  PICTOU - Veterans, students and Legion members from across Nova Scotia are gathered at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 16 in Pictou to ...
• Canadian Coast Guard vessel named after Stellarton...
  SARNIA – Though Lynne Tebay of Medicine Hat, Alta., never met her great-uncle, she is intimately familiar with his story of heroism on the ...
• Navy’s Stadacona Band to perform in New Glasgow
  NEW GLASGOW – When the Royal Canadian Navy’s band performs at Glasgow Square next weekend, there will be several familiar faces on stage.New ...