Cumberland County News

Candidatesa TM signs have been out in full force since the byelection was called early last month.

Richmond, Va., Assistant City Attorney Greg Lukanuski, a 1981 graduate of Mechanicsburg High School, handled the prosecution.

TRENTON The Cumberland County Blues dealt the Pictou County Scotians their first defeat of the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League season, 5-2 last night.

A Cumberland County Redevelopment Authority bank account was breached last month by hackers who stole $479,000. Now, another government agency in Cumberland is missing money from a bank account.

There was really no question when Adrian Baillargeon considered whether he was going to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus.

I have worked closely with Freeholders Lou Magazzu, Nelson Thompson and Wade Sjogren on numerous projects over the past years and wanted to share my experiences.

Much of the most heated rhetoric surrounding the Cumberland County freeholder race this year doesn't involve the direction in which the county is moving or plans for future actions -- the usual fodder for political campaigns.

One bar in Cumberland County is making its establishment smoke free while adding a new shop.

Cumberland municipal councillor Allison Gillis talks to federal Fisheries Minister Gail while Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley Tory candidate Scott Armstrong looks on during the opening of the partya TMs Amherst campaign office on Friday.

Marjorie Newman talks to NDP candidate Mark Austin during a campaign stop in Amherst on Monday.

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TRURO Liberal candidate Jim Burrows' election bid is getting a show of support from the party's head honcho.

For some time, the area around Smith Mountain in rural Cumberland County has been building a reputation as a good place to build a retirement home.

Trucks drive along Interstate 81 in Botetourt County on Tuesday. A project is in the wings to create climbing lanes for trucks on the interstate in Montgomery County.

The Cumberland County Health Department has exhausted all 1,600 of its doses of seasonal flu vaccine, and the flu clinics scheduled for Friday and Oct.

Cumberland County commissioners awarded construction contracts of nearly $6.6 million to four firms that will build a public safety center.

The Cumberland 4-H Youth Development Program will celebrate National 4-H Week Sunday through Oct.

As much as it appears that a new funding arrangement between the Cumberland Health Authority and the Department of Health is limiting the number of closures at emergency departments in Cumberland County, people in those communities still have to be a little apprehensive of what the future will bring.

AMHERST Mark Austin will represent New Democrats in the upcoming federal byelection for Cumberland-Colchester-Mus-quodoboit Valley.

AMHERST AIDS and HIV might not get the attention they once did but there is still no cure, it still kills, and people are still battling the disease.