David Sollows News Today

At Thursday's town council meeting in Yarmouth, N.S., a motion will be introduced asking for a staff report to look into what can be done about the beech leaf-mining weevil, an invasive species that's attacking beech trees.

Kirsten Noel, invasive species council supervisor, said the invasive plant was discovered in the past week at a few different sites in Yarmouth, including along the waterfront and the Yarmouth County Rail Trail.

(Town of Yarmouth photo) On this day in 1761, the landing of the first settlers in Chebogue. Local historian David Sollows says the families of Sealed Landers, Ebenezer Ellis and Moses Perry arrived from New England. “More settlers followed that group. The first winters were brutal, and some decided the land was too inhospitable and left. There were a few families that remained, and more settlers arrived, and Yarmouth became what it is today.” Many descendants of those original families are...