There is a Snowfall Warning in place now from Environment Canada for Pictou County with 15 to 20 cm possible tonight into Tuesday.
Conditions will deteriorate rapidly this evening as snow at times heavy and strong northeast winds give poor visibilities in blowing snow over exposed areas.
Central Nova MP Sean Fraser; Premier Tim Houston; New Glasgow Mayor Nancy Dicks; and Stellarton Mayor Danny MacGillivray have announced joint funding of over $593,000 for Pictou County Transit’s fixed-route transit system.
The system provides public transit service in New Glasgow and Stellarton.
With the funding, the Pictou County Transit Authority will purchase two new buses and establish five new bus stops.
Nova Scotia Health’s COVID-19 vaccine outreach clinics will be offering drop-in vaccines this week in all zones, including, in the Northern Zone:
Brookfield Fire Hall (ages 5+)
110 Hwy 289, Brookfield
Tuesday, Feb. 14 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Offering eligible doses by age range
Flu vaccine will also be available
Eureka and District Fire Hall (ages 5+)
5222 Stellarton Trafalgar Rd, Eureka
Wednesday, Feb. 15 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Offering eligible doses by age range
Flu vaccine will also be available
Truro Library (ages 5+)
754 Prince St., Truro
Thursday, Feb. 16 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Offering eligible doses by age range
Flu vaccine will also be available
Some varieties of Nova Scotia wines are going to be unavailable for a few years due to the cold first weekend of February.
Steve Ells — president of the Grape Growers Association of Nova Scotia — says it’s unlikely the vineyards will be able to harvest Nova Scotia-grown vinifera grapes — including Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Riesling — this year.
Ells says the best case scenario is that the vineyards will rebound in a couple of years.
Temperatures dropped to -25 Celsius last weekend amidst an otherwise mild winter.
The U-S military has shot down another high-altitude object, the fourth in just over a week, over Lake Huron closer to the U-S East and southern Ontario.
Recovery efforts are underway to find and analyze all the objects.
The undercarriage of the first balloon, which contains the surveillance equipment, was located mostly intact in the water on Friday, but efforts to extract it were delayed until at least today because of rough seas.
The prime minister spoke briefly at the airport on Sunday before boarding a plane bound for Yukon on a trip planned before Saturday’s incident, but which will now include meetings with local government and Indigenous leaders about what happened.
In the Super Bowl Sunday night, the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35.
The schedule is out for the AUS Men’s Hockey quarterfinal series between St FX and Acadia.
Game #1 is Wednesday night at St FX.
Game #2 is Friday night at Acadia.
Game #3 (if necessary) would be Sunday night at St FX.
The STFX X-Women have a bye to the semi-final round.
It was a great weekend with the Special Olympics Nova Scotia Winter Games at CFB Greenwood.
The event welcomed athletes from Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
