New Glasgow Regional Police are seeking the public’s help in their investigation of a drive-by shooting on High Street in New Glasgow.

Police received a report at 11am on Sunday that a house was damaged by shots fired from a passing vehicle.

Officers responded and the preliminary investigation revealed the passing vehicle used by the suspect involved is a black 4-door sedan.

No one was injured in the incident.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the New Glasgow Regional Police or Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers.

 

 

Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Brooklyn Fire Hall Monday to remember a six-year-old girl who perished July 22nd in severe flooding.

Natalie Hazel Harnish, an avid cheerleader, was described as a “butterfly who lit up every room.”  R-C-M-P have said two vehicles were knocked off the road into a hayfield in Brooklyn by rapidly rising water during the storm.

Last week, searchers recovered the bodies of Harnish and six-year-old Colton Sisco, along with 52-year-old Nicholas Holland, of Brooklyn, who was travelling with a youth who remains missing.

 

 

A committee that will oversee progress on the recommendations of Nova Scotia’s mass shooting inquiry is expected to provide updates on its website at least twice a year.

The terms of reference were released yesterday by the federal and Nova Scotia governments.

The committee to be chaired by retired judge Linda Lee Oland will hold its first meeting in September.

The committee has been granted a three-year term that could be extended, while the chair will serve for one year and is to help find a replacement to serve for the remaining two years.

 

 

Lt.-Gov. Arthur J. LeBlanc and Dwayne Provo, Associate Deputy Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs, will officially recognize Emancipation Day today in Halifax.

Emancipation Day commemorates the abolition of slavery across the British Commonwealth, including in Canada, on August 1st, 1834.

The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. at Province House.  Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard and Russell Grosse, Executive Director of the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, will also take part.

 

 

The Town of New Glasgow Water Utility is advising customers in the are of Terrace Street between Cameron Street and Carmichael Street that there will be a water outage today as of 8 am, that will possibly last until 12 pm.

The outage is necessary to repair a fire hydrant in the area.