Wolfville News

There are elements of Niagara-on-the-Lake to this town at the far eastern end of the Annapolis Valley.

The Secret Codes, a major new exhibition of contemporary quilts by African-Nova Scotian quilt makers, opens Saturday, 1 p.m., at Chase Gallery, Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 6016 University Ave, Halifax.

Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Regional Minister for Nova Scotia, on behalf of the Honourable Bernard Valcourt, Minister of State for ACOA and La Francophonie, announced today three Government of Canada investments at Acadia University in Wolfville.

Carl Sparkes is partnering with Jost Vineyards in Malagash, Nova Scotia, where he will serve as president while owner Hans Christian Jost focuses on production at the 60,000-case winery.

Building on solid support with popular productions and garnering four Merritt Awards last season, Valley Summer Theatre has announced two productions for July and August that should be crowd pleasers.

Many grassy areas have turned into a sea of yellow and Wolfville, N.S. resident Patricia McBay says she is waging war with the weeds this season, after thousands of the pesky plants have popped up across her lawn.

On Saturday I'll be in St. John's getting a story ready for Star Travel. The weather doesn't look as good as last time I was there, when it was something like 16 degrees and rainy the first day but then hot and sunny for an entire week.

The Dartmouth Community Concert Association presents the final concert in its 2011-12 season with David Greenberg, violin, and Chris Norman, flute, tonight, 8 p.m., at Woodlawn United Church, Dartmouth.

The business joins recently-launched Serendipitous Jewellery, as well as the well-established Annapolis Academy of Music, Juandaro's Futbol Boutique and Valley Stove & Cycle.

The highlight at Peggy's Cove is a near-perfect lighthouse perched on a billow of bare granite boulders with waves below.

The joy of wine touring is actually getting to taste the wines in the wineries where they are made with the people who made them.

It may be billed as Small Disasters for Your Ear Holes, but Selina Martin's upcoming show at the Jane Bond in Waterloo promises to be anything but an aural catastrophe.

The Annapolis Valley Chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers held its annual candlelight vigil in remembrance of loved ones killed or injured by impaired drivers April.