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A nine-year-boy from Yarmouth is celebrating with his family after becoming one of the first 60 Canadians to receive the Diamond Jubilee medal.

April Doucette sits with her dog Jack in her Yarmouth County home on Wednesday, Jan.

"To this day, I do not know what we saw, but it is clear that it was under intelligent control and coincided, as to time and place, with what was seen by 70 people on the ground, and neither of us new that the other had seen this stuff for 40 odd years" says retired Pan American World Airways Pilot, Captain Ralph Loewinger .

A new app lets Yarmouth, N.S., residents report graffiti, burnt-out streetlights, potholes and other non-emergency complaints from their smartphones.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that the Nova Scotia Chambers of Commerce believes the business sector plays an essential role in determining the future health of the provincial economy and believes government therefore needs to do more to assist business in reaching its full potential.

The price of lobster per pound has jumped from about $3.50 in early January to about $4.25 as of Monday, according to the Lobster Council of Canada.

At the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, we hear about red tape every day.