New Glasgow Town Council has reversed its decision regarding the recommended site for a long-term care facility in New Glasgow.
A Special Council meeting was held Monday night to consider the motion of December 18th to recommend the facility be developed at a location on Brother Street in the town’s historic black neighbourhood.
Members of the community said they weren’t consulted about the project, which called for the facility to be built next to a long-established community centre, and there was concern they would lose parts of the property, which includes a playground, a soccer field and basketball courts.
Council voted Monday to reverse the decision.
Council will now look into other possible locations for the facility.
New Glasgow Regional Police say no one was injured in that fire Monday night in a home at the intersection of Forbes and James Streets in New Glasgow.
The home, which was a former church, sustained extensive damage.
Investigators are trying to pinpoint possible causes of the blaze.
The New Glasgow, Stellarton, Linacy and Trenton Fire Departments all responded, along with New Glasgow Regional Police, Emergency Health Services and Nova Scotia Power.
The Northeast Nova RCMP Major Crime Unit is now investigating the suspicious disappearance of a 23-year-old Truro man, Zackery Kellock.
On January 16, Truro Police Service responded to a report of a missing man who was believed to have been last seen on James St in Truro on January 14.
Since that time, police determined that Zack was last confirmed to be at an address in Millbrook First Nation and that his disappearance is suspicious in nature.
As a result, the Northeast Nova RCMP Major Crime Unit has taken over the investigation and they ask anyone with information on Zack Kellock’s whereabouts to contact them at 902-896-5060 or Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers.
A Nova Scotia inquiry is set to release its final report today in Port Hawkesbury into what led a former soldier to kill his family members and himself seven years ago.
The much-delayed fatality inquiry investigated why Lionel Desmond killed his mother, wife and 10-year-old daughter before taking his own life with a shot fired from a semi-automatic rifle on January 3rd, 2017.
During 53 days of hearings, the inquiry learned Desmond was diagnosed with severe P-T-S-D and major depression in 2011, after he saw intense combat in Afghanistan in 2007.
The inquiry can’t find fault in terms of criminal or civil liability and its recommendations are not binding.
The Nova Scotia government has launched a pilot project that gives 12-thousand residents access to their medical records through a mobile app.
Patients at four Nova Scotia primary health-care clinics can now see a record of their medications, lab and diagnostic results, hospital visits and immunizations through the app YourHealthNS.
Premier Tim Houston says the medical record access will run as a pilot until the end of March, and all Nova Scotians are expected to have mobile access to their medical records through the app by the end of June.
