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Rosanne Burke is manager of advocacy for the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia.

ROSANNE BURKE: Join an advisory committee of lived experience at the Alzheimer Society

Contributed |Updated a day ago |3 min read Premium content

Nothing about us without us is an important principle that guides our work at the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia. People living with dementia and their care partners should have the right to influence advocacy, communication and research that ...

Cape Breton Community Calendar

Cape Breton Community Calendar events for April 18-24, 2024

Contributed |Updated 8 hours ago |9 min read

Cape Breton Community Calendar is a public service listing of community events sponsored by non-profit groups. It will appear weekly on Fridays. The deadline for submissions is the Wednesday previous at noon but to ensure adequate advance ...

Tim Hortons has launched four new made-to-order oven-baked pizzas across Canada available in cheese, pepperoni, chicken parmesan and “bacon everything." - Contributed

Tim Hortons debuts new flatbread pizzas across Canada

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |2 min read Premium content

Tim Hortons flatbread pizzas are now available on lunch and dinner menus across the country. After successful testing in select markets, the Canadian coffee mogul is offering four specialty flatbreads for a limited time only. The made-to-order ...

Janos Bergman's Summerside home also serves as his art studio. Originally from Hungary, Bergman has lived in Canada for many years and now calls Summerside home. His artwork has been featured in many collections and galleries, including most recently in Italy at Arte Roma 2024. Kristin Gardiner

Summerside artist has paintings on display in Europe

Kristin Gardiner · Journalist |Updated a day ago |8 min read Premium content

Janos Bergman can’t help but paint. “I wouldn’t know what to do with myself,” said the Summerside artist. To step into his home is to step into an art gallery. Every room and corridor boasts his paintings – old works and new – on the wall. In his ...

Musician Aaron C. Lewis is hoping his stolen Larrivée  guitar will turn up. 
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'It took a whole lifetime to find that guitar for me': Cape Breton musician recovers stolen guitar

Barb Sweet |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

SYDNEY, N.S. — Musician Aaron C. Lewis retrieved his stolen guitar late Monday afternoon after a public plea for its return. Lewis had mistakenly forgotten the guitar in his car at his home on Alexander Street in Sydney after a gig. Close to 2,000 ...

Heavy machinery has returned to Charlotte Street for a third year as the final phase of the downtown road's revitalization begins this week. The $9-million project is expected to be completed over the next four months. It will see the section between Wentworth and Townsend streets closed for the installation of a new road and sidewalks — plus other features seen so far on the finished part of the street such as trees. The sewer system will also receive upgrades. LUKE DYMENT/CAPE BRETON POST

PHOTO: Final phase of Charlotte Street reconstruction underway in Sydney

Luke Dyment |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

Heavy machinery has returned to Charlotte Street for a third year as the final phase of the downtown road's revitalization begins this week. The $9-million project is expected to be completed over the next four months. It will see the section between ...

Bev Sutherland, Class of 1980, Barb Young, Class of 1965, Cathy Gibson, Class of 1976, Kim Chisholm, Class of 1975 and Shirley Caldwell, Class of 1971. Contributed

Aberdeen Hospital Alumni art installation to honour legacy of caring

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |3 min read

The Alumni of the Aberdeen Hospital School of Nursing are seeking public proposals for an art installation to honour the former nursing school's history and legacy of caring in celebration of its 98-year history. The Alumni include graduates from the ...

From left, Breton McGean, Saralyn Gillan and Adam MacKenzie, all of W.E.B.S. Creative Closet, stand outside city hall council chambers on Aprii 9 just after receiving a Gary McDonald Memorial Award in recognition of an outstanding volunteer community project. IAN NATHANSON/CAPE BRETON POST

CBRM recognizes standout volunteers during annual awards ceremony

Ian Nathanson |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

SYDNEY — Community volunteers who stood out for their significant contributions to the Cape Breton Regional Municipality earned special recognition in an April 9 ceremony held at city hall just ahead of that evening’s council meeting. The volunteer ...

Singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves has just released "Deeper Well," her much-anticipated fifth album. The record’s reach extends far beyond the traditional country music audience that first flocked to her. Contributed

DOUG GALLANT: Musgraves goes deep for new record

Doug Gallant · Columnist |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

People have come to expect good things from Kacey Musgraves. That’s because, with each new record, the Texas-born singer-songwriter has taken things up a notch in terms of both the calibre and diversity of her songwriting and the production values of ...

Sheila Newell, left, and Pam Gilroy reprise their roles as Vera and Nana for Hubtown Theatre's upcoming performance of Nana Does Vegas, a sequel show to their 2018 production of Nana's Naughty Knickers. Nick Gaines

Hubtown Theatre promises non-stop hilarity with Nana Does Vegas

Brendyn Creamer |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

Nana's coming back to Truro in a big way. After the uproarious laughter shared at the Marigold during Hubtown Theatre's 2018 production of Katerine DiSavino's Nana's Naughty Knickers, the titular Nana will be returning to Truro's mainstage in the ...

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