Author Archives: Kevin Northup

For the first time in three years, the Coal Shed Music Festival is coming back to the Yarmouth waterfront. This August, three weekends are set aside for dozens of artists to take the stage. Organizer ...

The Travel Media Association of Canada just wrapped up its conference in Yarmouth. Over 200 delegates from across the country arrived here last Wednesday, and explored everything our region has to off...

Nova Scotia Intermediate Baseball League: The Sherose Island Schooners split a doubleheader with Windsor at home yesterday. The Schooners are now 4-6 on the season. Yarmouth County Minor Baseball Asso...

The Sherose Island Schooners season is underway. The reigning Nova Scotia Intermediate Baseball League champions based out of Barrington have three wins and five losses so far. Manager and defending l...

Work on a new sidewalk is underway in the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth. It's being built on Highway 1 in Dayton. Warden John Cunningham says it's part of council's strategic plan for activ...

The Yarmouth Mariners have traded 20 year old forward Logan Danis to Niverville in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League for future considerations. The Winnipeg native had 18 points in 26 games with the M...

The Bluenose II is back in Yarmouth. The vessel will be able to welcome visitors on deck this year. Captain Phil Watson says they had to wave to people at the Cape Forchu Lighthouse the last two years...

A Yarmouth wrestler is heading to the Canada Games with Team Nova Scotia in August. Fifteen year old Olivia Hamilton won the national under-17 Greco Roman wrestling championship in Alberta last weeken...

Yarmouth Town RCMP are looking for a suspect in a series of thefts last month. Police say a man entered a box store on Starrs Road on May 25th, and stole a Husqvarna chainsaw and a Dewalt drill. He th...

The grand opening of Argyle's 'net zero' energy administration building yesterday in Tusket. It was a celebration years in the making, as councillors and wardens past and present gathered for a ribbon...