Port Morien News

A blue lobster caught by Leif Morrison of Port Morien, will be joining Stan the white lobster at Ripley's Aquarium of Canada being built at the base of the CN Tower.

Lobster buyers on the eastern side of Cape Breton say they can't buy any more lobster Thursday and possibly Friday because of a huge haul this year.

It seems counterintuitive that manmade structures so big and bright as lighthouses seem to blend so seamlessly into Nova Scotia's muted and stunted coastal landscape.

The Port Morien Wildlife Association has stocked the dam at the John Bernard Croak Memorial Park with thousands of fish in preparation for the adult Rainbow Trout Fishing Derby from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sunday.

On April 28, at 7 p.m., my sister Alice Fraser closed her eyes at Soldier's Memorial Hospital, Middleton, N.S. In her final hours, she was supported by a cloud of witnesses - Paulette, an ICU nurse, to whom she proclaimed, "I am dying and I'm not afraid;" her daughter Cathy and husband David; her brother Ted and wife Helen; their daughter Nina.