The police are reporting that a 57-year-old man was electrocuted while cutting branches from a tree in Runaway Bay in St Ann on Saturday. Dead is Neville Murray, a 57-year-old groundsman from Coxheath in Runaway Bay.
Residents in Coxheath, N.S., are worried that commercial development in the area could further threaten a species at risk in Blacketts Lake. A local biologist says the yellow lampmussel is key to keeping the waters clean in the freshwater lake.
Olivia Burke, 17, of Cape Breton is the first Nova Scotian-born highland dancer to win at the World Championships in Dunoon, Scotland. Burke placed first in three of her four dances, snagging the top spot in her age division at the Cowal Gathering.
Cape Breton University, which spent much of 2022 and 2023 dealing with a housing shortage and huge student population growth, will start the 2023 fall semester with 111 new beds in the MacDonald Residence on campus, as well as extended bus routes outside of Sydney.
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