The jackpot in the Pugwash Fire Department ‘Toonie Draw’ will reach about $1,500 for next week. No prize was awarded tonight.

Nominations for the Cumberland South by-election closed at 2:00 o’clock today. There are four candidates officially nominated to be on the ballot.

Harbourview is a pleasant apartment complex in Pugwash, home to a number of seniors. However, it becomes even more pleasant every spring when volunteers from Communities in Bloom (CiB) spruce up the gardens.

A bright blue roof stands as testament to a new beginning for the Pugwash Farmers’ Market. Construction is well under way at the market site on Durham Street, next to the Library in the ‘Old Train Station’.

The Liberal candidate in the Cumberland South by-election says there is a sense of excitement approaching the halfway point of the campaign.

There were 14 reports presented to the annual meeting of the Pugwash Village Commission tonight. A number of those are part of, or impacted by, the Waterfront Development Master Plan.

The municipal advisor to the Pugwash Village Commission told the community’s annual meeting tonight that a new initiative of the province is to create the conditions for regional governance. 

The Pugwash Village Commission will host its Annual Meeting this evening at seven o’clock in the Village Hall.

A 78 year old man from Springhill is dead following a boating mishap, on Poison Lake, Thursday evening.

There was a mini fireworks at Cumberland Council last night as councillors debated an earlier decision to stop funding fireworks.

Cumberland Council spent the last few weeks trying to shave two million dollars from its proposed budget for 2018-19, but in the end, council had to raise taxes to make ends meet.

The Toonie Draw in Pugwash will reach new heights this week as tonight’s draw did not produce a winner. Number 798 was drawn, but the holder of that number did not enter a toonie, so the $658 prize was forfeited.

Dual stream recycling is almost a reality for all of Cumberland County.

Councillors in Oxford had to bite the bullet tonight as they passed a budget that requires a tax hike, the first in a long time.