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Creative Corner Crafts is where Susanna Green focuses on not only making wooden signs, but also crocheting and sewing.

MEET THE MAKERS - Focusing on crafts: Crocheting, sewing and sign making also part of creative process for photographer

Originally, Susanna Green’s plan was to start a photography business, but then things changed and she ended up focusing instead on crafting. At the time, Green was just doing photography and crafts as hobbies but eventually picked the craft angle to ...
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Prices at the Pumps: An up and down week at the pumps
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Prices at the Pumps for Feb. 28, 2024.

HALIFAX RETALES: Danielle Latour tapping the Korean rice beverage market
Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |3 min read Premium content
Danielle Latour, owner of the newly-opened Mak 902, with a glass of lavender makgeolli at her Kempt Road establishment on Monday, April 15, 2024. Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald

Cove Drinks of Halifax has begun shipping its no-sugar sodas to 575 Costco stores in the U.S., forecasts revenue of $100 million
Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

Over 50 employers and service providers taking part in job fair in New Glasgow, N.S.
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Kings, N.S., council allows amendments to controversial Canning development agreement
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An aquaculture site in the Municipality of the District of Argyle. Nova Scotia teams up with the municipality to collect scientific data in designated areas through a pilot project. - Centre for Marine Applied Research / Perennia

Six sites in Lobster Bay and Pubnico Harbour pre-approved for aquaculture development

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

Six sites in Lobster Bay and Pubnico Harbour are now pre-approved for shellfish and marine plant aquaculture as part of an aquaculture pilot project aimed at saving time with pre-approved sites for growing shellfish and marine plants. Argyle ...
Construction work continues on the Cunard development on the Halifax waterfront on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald

Six more restaurants on the Halifax waterfront when Cunard Residences developments opens soon

Bill Spurr · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

Zoey Boosey expects to employ more than 300 people when she and her business partner Kent Scales open a number of new eateries in Halifax. The pair now owns Sea Smoke at Bishop’s Landing and two Vandal doughnut shops, one on Gottingen Street and one ...
The terminal at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in 2020. There has been a clawback in the number of routes and passenger flows from Atlantic Canada. - Saltwire Photo

How good is Halifax's airport? Depends on who you ask

Bill Spurr · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

The Halifax International Airport Authority responded diplomatically on Thursday in response to a survey that placed Stanfield Airport behind airports in Moncton, St. John’s and Thunder Bay. CasinosHunter, a site normally dedicated to reviewing ...
Prices at the Pumps for Feb. 14, 2024.

Prices at the Pumps: Winter shift driving prices up

Scott Squires · Producer video/audio |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |1 min read Video Premium content

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Greg and Aleyda Knight are the owners of Four Seasons Retreat in Upper Economy. They are critical of the three per cent tourism marketing levy imposed by the Municipality of the County of Colchester (in partnership with the Town of Truro, Millbrook First Nation and Town of Stewiacke), stating they know how to market their business better than any government. Nick Gaines

Local business owners critical of Colchester County's tourism marketing levy: 'We know far better how to market our business'

Brendyn Creamer |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

While Colchester council seemed pleased with their new tourism marketing levy, business owners Greg and Aleyda Knight aren't as welcoming of the extra charges. Greg and Aleyda run Four Seasons Retreat, a property in Upper Economy with twelve cabins ...
Vida plans to create a modular home community in Kentville. The 6.6-acre property is located behind The Salvation Army and between Oakdene and Nichols avenues. Contributed

Vida partners with the Trailer Park Boys to promote contest to come up with plans for Kentville property

Jason Malloy · Lead editor Annapolis Valley Register |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |7 min read Premium content

A Halifax-based real estate company has come up with an innovative idea to help it develop a modular home community in the Kentville area. Vida has enlisted the assistance of the Trailer Park Boys to promote its contest that invites people, groups or ...
Brothers John, left, and Ryan Maclellan, owners of Cove Drinks in Halifax, have launched a line of sugar-free sodas.

Halifax's Cove Drinks pouring into the U.S., now on sale at hundreds of Costco stores

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 5, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

Cove Drinks of Halifax this week began shipping its sodas to 530 Costco warehouses across the U.S. This follows the company’s debut in the U.S. in February at 140 Fresh Market locations. “This is a pivotal moment for our business,” Cove Drinks CEO ...
Among the industrial space that has recently come to market in Halifax is 320 Higney Avenue in Dartmouth, delivering 53,827 square feet this quarter.

Long a problem with supply, industrial space now available in Halifax

Bill Spurr · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 5, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

Halifax had the largest increase in industrial space in Canada in Q1, new figures from commercial real estate firm CBRE show. Space in Halifax was up 400 basis points year-over-year in Q1, followed by Waterloo Region, Calgary and Montreal. With the ...
Nova Scotia fruit farmers affected by the 2023 extreme cold can apply for provincial funding through the polar vortex industry recovery program. - File

Nova Scotia opens funding applications for grape and fruit growers affected by extreme cold

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated Apr. 5, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

Grape and other fruit growers in Nova Scotia affected by the extreme cold last year can continue to access financial support through the second phase of a provincial funding program. Nova Scotia has opened applications for phase 2 of the $15 million ...
Among the celebrations this year at the Keltic Lodge will be the facility’s 82nd birthday along with a host of other special events that staff hope will attract a wealth of former and new visitors to the facility. CONTRIBUTED

THE WRAP: Keltic woes, merger noes and Popeyes preps for Cape Breton

Brian Ward · Managing Editor |Updated Apr. 5, 2024 |5 min read

Closing time at old Keltic Lodge The space that launched a thousand tourism ads, the old Keltic Lodge, is closing indefinitely. Fixing up the grand, storied structure simply costs too much. The resort will run at half capacity this summer, with the ...
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A sign on the doors of Alweather Windows and Doors in Burnside says the business will be temporarily closed from April 1 to May 15 due to an ownership transition. Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald
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