A free skate, sponsored by Yarmouth Leisure Services, will be held at the Mariners Centre on Monday, Nov...

By Carla Allen THE VANGUARD NovaNewsNow.com Fishermen in Southwest Nova are making their lists and checking them twice: bungee cords, check, escape vents for traps, check, handles, check, bait bags, check, lobster bands, check, rope, check. ?People don't realize how much work there is for lobster fishermen to get ready for the season,? said Rolene Leverington, manager of Waterview Machine Works ...

Tiers of traps, piles of buoys and mountains of coiled rope lined the wharves of Southwest Nova this week...

In a news release issued Wednesday, the Yarmouth International Airport Corporation says it was surprised to receive notice from Starlink Aviation that its passenger service between Halifax, Yarmouth and Portland will end after its flights touch down on Monday. The Yarmouth Airport Corporation says it has been negotiating with Starlink Aviation on the passenger schedule for 2010...

Starlink Aviation has announced that as of Tuesday, Dec...

There was a bit of commotion at the corner of the Hardscratch Road and Starrs Road on Thursday afternoon during the demolition of a building located there...

By Tina Comeau THE VANGUARD NovaNewsNow.com A Hants County man has been charged with defrauding district health authorities in western Nova Scotia, including South West Health, of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Police in Kentville allege that Cary Lee Hollett, 42, who was an employee at the Annapolis Valley district health authority, defrauded the South West Health, Annapolis and South Shore ...

By Michael Gorman THE VANGUARD NovaNewsNow.com The owner of the Halifax Rainmen basketball team said bringing his team to Yarmouth for training camp the first week of December is all about his overall goal of making the team a part of the community at large. Speaking from Halifax last week, Andre Levingston said ever since the team's first training camp two years ago, which was in Bridgewater ...

By Carla Allen THE VANGUARD NovaNewsNow.com One of the organizers for the Ten Thousand Villages sale on Friday and Saturday, Nov...

To accommodate the Canada Winter Games being held in Halifax in 2011, the province has adjusted when some schools in the province will have their ?March break? during the 2010-11 school year. Students in the Tri-County Regional School Board will still have their March Break during the month of March in 2011 ? the dates are March 14-18 ? but schools in Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) will ...

By Carla Allen THE VANGUARD NovaNewsNow.com There's an important rule participants must remember when designing their floats for the Nov...

The annual Yarmouth Christmas tree lighting ceremony in front of Yarmouth town hall will take place Friday, Nov...

The Vanguard invites readers to share their stories about a special Christmas gift. What's the greatest Christmas gift you ever received -- or what's the greatest Christmas gift you ever gave ? bearing in mind that a ?gift? need not always be a material thing...

By Carla Allen THE VANGUARD NovaNewsNow.com A Christmas Carol is the third play in which Jim Chandler and his son, Jon-Erik, have provided music - bass and flute respectively as part of the Yarmouth Pit Orchestra. ?For teenage boys who don't want to have a lot to do with their parents, this is an ideal opportunity to bond,? said Jim Chandler...

South West Health is pleased to welcome Dr...

The flu assessment clinic at the Yarmouth hospital will close on Wednesday, Nov...

Due to transportation issues, the game times for tonight's basketball doubleheader between Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School and Shelburne Regional High School are now 5 p.m...

Three people were taken to hospital with undisclosed injuries following a two-vehicle collision on Starrs Road around 10 a.m...

By Eric Bourque THE VANGUARD NovaNewsNow.com The Yarmouth and Area Chamber of Commerce presented its annual business awards last week. The program featured eight award categories, including business person of the year, which went to Jim MacLeod of Spears and MacLeod Pharmasave. A familiar face in the downtown business community for many years who has been involved in numerous causes and ...

By Carla Allen THE VANGUARD NovaNewsNow.com A visual and audio feast for the upcoming holiday season starts at Th'YARC on Nov...