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• Rethinking breakwater construction
  RELATED: Operator escapes sinking excavator through roof The Digby Harbour Port Association and the contractor building the new breakwater are rethin
• Operator escapes sinking excavator through roof
  [Updated wuth information from RCMP press release at 7:45 p.m. Friday, May 17] An excavator operator escaped through the cab roof hatch after his ...
• Chunk of local history unearthed on shores of Bear...
  The currents of a little brook flowing into Bear River have unearthed a chunk of local history. A wooden scow, built in the late 1800s, showed up ...
• Cooke company pleads guilty to illegal pesticide use
  Cooke Aquaculture’s subsidiary, Kelly Cove Salmon, has pled guilty to charges of using an illegal pesticide in a marine environment. The company ...
• Aground in Digby Gut -- photos from the tow
  A scallop dragger, aground on the shore of Digby Gut, came off the beach without a hitch at high tide later the same day. The Chief Charles Paul ...
• BoFEx request puts spotlight on waterfront muddle
  The town has a bit of work to do before it can decide about donating waterfront land to the Bay of Fundy Experience Centre. A recent consultant’s ...
• McNally making quick job of middle ell pilings
  McNally Construction has had a productive first day hauling the wooden pilings from the floor of Digby harbour, after a tough day hauling out the ...
• Boom truck tips over on wharf
  No one was hurt when a boom truck tipped over the edge of the Digby wharf. Tony O'Neill of Tidal Boat Works was using a boom truck to lower a set ...
• Digby marine experience centre moving forward
  The next step in developing the Bay of Fundy Experience Centre is finding the money. Dean Kenley, chair of the BoFEx committee, says the centre ...
• Where to put the Digby pier light?
  Ben Cleveland says it’s almost time to start his spring project. Digby’s mayor and a group of councillors and other volunteers plan to start ...
• Spanish justice – Philip Halliday's story
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• Libertad after three years in Spanish jail
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• Philip is coming home -- 3 years and 27 exclamation...
  Philip Halliday is coming home. Three years of incarceration in Spanish jail is over. Three years of separation from friends and family will come ...
• Wharf dredging and float installation project awarded
  McNally Construction has won the tender for the next step in the wharf renovation project. The Digby Port Harbour Association accepted their bid ...
• New undersea cables to Brier Island
  Nova Scotia Power is installing four new undersea power cables to Brier Island. The $2.2 million dollar project will replace the three cables ...
• Search called off for fisherman
  Officials have called off a search for a fisherman who fell overboard near Grand Manan early this morning. The man was reported missing from the ...
• Photos from Setting Day on Brier and Long Islands,...
  Photos from my travels on setting Day on Brier and Long Islands, Digby County.
• Sturgeon found floating in Bay
  Fishermen found a dead Atlantic sturgeon floating upside down in the Bay of Fundy. They were coming in from lobster fishing when they found the ...
• O’Neil’s have sold O’Neil’s
  The new owners of O’Neil Fisheries plan to have work at the fishplant ‘most every day’. Scotia Harvest Seafoods Inc of Lower West Pubnico has ...
• Dumping day in Digby -- photos from aboard the Randi...
  The lobster season is underway in Digby. Twenty-three boats pulled out of the Digby marina on Sunday morning, Oct. 14 at 9:23 a.m., a few minutes ...
• Killer whale sighted off Brier Island
  [Updated with other sightings Wednesday, Sept. 19, 11 a.m.] Whale watchers off Brier Island spent an hour watching with a killer whale. Roy Small ...
• Digby’s lighthouse is coming home
  The Digby Pier Light is coming home to Digby. Digby mayor Ben Cleveland told the Courier this morning, Wednesday, Sept. 12, that the lighthouse ...
• Hatchery plans still unclear
  Cooke Aquaculture doesn’t know yet where or when it will build the fish hatchery proposed for the Digby area. The Nova Scotia government awarded ...
• An awful snarl: the ferry and fishing gear
  The Digby ferry has got snarled up in fishing gear – again. The Princess of Acadia is headed for dry dock again this weekend for the second time ...
• Digby area to get 22 fisheries jobs
  The provincial Fisheries and Aquaculture department is moving 22 jobs out of Halifax and into the Digby area. Headquarters of the fisheries ...
• RCMP call off the search for missing diver
  Island residents are still walking the shore and checking beaches with their four wheelers this morning. "Islanders just doing their thing," said ...
• Diver missing in Grand Passage
  The search for a missing diver is continuing. Preliminary investigation revealed that a 48-year-old man from O
• Fundy Tidal asks for land for tidal centre
  [Related:Petit Passage tidal project gets COMFIT approval] A tidal energy developer is one step closer to building offices and research ...
• Province and municipalities argue over whale removal
  The Municipality of the District of Digby has drawn a line in the sand of Sandy Cove. A 6-metre whale washed up on the Fundy Beach sometime last ...
• Digby Neck and Islands ‘welcome' lobster association
  The Professional Lobster Fishermen's Association received a challenging welcome in Sandy Cove yesterday. Many of the fishermen in attendance, ...