Truro News

Thousands of Maritimers are without power after high winds, snow, and freezing rain caused widespread outages across the region overnight Saturday.

Sen. Fred Dickson is being remembered as a powerful political operative, a prominent lawyer and a man who permanently reshaped Canada's offshore energy landscape, winning over $1 billion for his home province of Nova Scotia in the process.

Nova Scotia Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil speaks to members of the Springhill and Area Chamber of Commerce on Thursday while Springhill Mayor Allen Dill looks on.

Prospect Acres and the father/son/daughter owners were recently named as Farm of the Year by the Chignecto Soil and Crop Improvement Association.

The Atlantic Chapter of the Canadian Association of Home & Property Inspectors is pleased to announce the recent election of Truro-based home inspector Blaine Swan, RHI, to the office of national president of the Canadian Association of Home & Property Inspectors.

The Kiju's Boyz drum thundered a traditional Mi'kmaq welcome for Paq'tnkek First Nation elders and Central Nova MP Peter MacKay on Sunday.

With his wife Rosemary and granddaughter Willow looking on, Independant MP Bill Casey thanks supporters for his victory at his headquarters in Truro in October 2008.

As a child, Joyce Barkhouse dreamt of becoming a missionary. Instead, she trained as a teacher, nurtured generations of children in the pleasures of reading and writing and became a published author herself in middle age.

Ralph Willis, who was honoured yesterday, looks over a cutout from The Truro Daily News in 1990 with Sherry Jackson-Smith and his grandson, Tyrece Paris, 12.

The Town of Truro Tourism Committee is hoping avid photographers of all ages, both professional and amateur, will be willing to share their photographs for a new souvenir postcard project.

Police continue to investigate the death of Jeffrey Albert Lynds, once the highest-ranking Hells Angel in Nova Scotia, in a prison cell last week.

In case you missed it last week, the Colchester Regional Development Agency and the Truro and District Chamber of Commerce recently forwarded to the media the names of more than 50 new businesses which have set up shop in Truro and Colchester County in the past couple of years.

The onslaught of online shopping and an influx of big box outlets has forced Carsand-Mosher Photographic Ltd.

This April marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The "unsinkable" ship will be the topic of discussion during a special presentation at the Truro museum this Thursday night.

James Finnie, who is originally from Scotland but now lives in Truro, said it's about bringing Old and New Scotland together.

Financial experts will spend less time on the road and residents living in remote corners of Nova Scotia will have access to their services thanks to a new video-conference service launched by the Bank of Montreal.

The Hubtown's business community would be in much better shape if not for high taxes and economic bungling on the part of the NDP government, Conservative MLA Jamie Baillie says.

Two local self-storage companies are working on large-scale expansions to accommodate rising demand and a third doubled its footprint last year after operating at 98 per cent capacity for four years straight.

Heroes Force action figures reflect "a new-found pride in Canadian militarism, which since World War Two was basically taboo," says Scott Taylor, publisher of Esprit de Corps magazine.