4july2008: Today Show web log features Shelburne Reenactors and web sites... the web site for NBC Today Show special correspondent Bob Dotson quotes several local reenactors from 3rd New Jersey Volunteers and the Brigade of the American Revolution, plus links to several local web site, include Destination Shelburne, Historic Shelburne and the Grand Reenactment. Pat Melanson, Lorraine Chapman and Brian Oglvie are quoted on Loyalist history, along with Benedict Arnold's great, great, great grandson, Stephen.
    Bob Dotson's web about the July 4th Special filmed in Shelburne can be seen HERE

4july2008: Budget experts sent to help Tri-County board... Education minister Karen Casey said Thursday she has appointed a three-person team to help the cash-strapped Tri-County regional school board finalize its 2008-09 budget. >>> more

4july2008:  $6.5 million CAT treat not fair says MLA and fishpackers... the $4.4 million from the Economic Development Industrial Development Fund announced Thursday as fuel subsidy for Bay Ferries makes for $6.5 million to date this year and strikes some as unfair.
    Digby-area MLA Junior Theriault and NS Fishpackers exec Denny Morrow say that the Digby-St John run is far more important to industry... >>> more... >>> Thursday's story

3july2008: NBC Today Show set to feature Shelburne and Loyalist Landing actors on July 4 special... America's most popular daytime show will feature reenactors from Shelburne's 3rd New Jersey Volunteers and Liverpool's King's Orange Rangers in a segment of American Stories with Bob Dotson  (see Dotson's web log HERE) on Friday, July 4 on NBC and MSNBC during the 8:00am hour (9:00am across Canada and USA)
     The show traces Benedict Arnold to Nova Scotia and features his great, great, grandson, Stephen. Also featured is the new longboat built for the Loyalist Landing events. see Bob Dotson's website HERE. see photos of TV shoot HERE... see Loyalist Landing Grand Reenactment HERE. 
     The 3rd New Jersey and longboat were filmed this past week for a TV feature about the Acadian Expulsion.

3july2008:  Lobster-dragger war being promoted by mysterious blogger... weighing into the heated dispute between lobster fishermen and local scallop draggers, a local web blog seems intent on fanning the flames of hatred between the two groups. 
     Shelburne County News reports that the draggers "despise the LFA 34 lobster guys" and that they "hate the lobster industry"... Spokesmen for both groups deny anything of the sort. The lobster fishers, who have been staging very peaceful demonstrations at the Cape Island Causeway, are on record in a recent CBC interview as "trying to work all this out peacefully."
     Dick Stewart, head of the Full Bay Scallop Association, says that the specter of hatred is "pure bull" and that "it looks like this blogger is trying to stir things up."
     There is considerable speculation about the identity of the anonymous blogger, who purports to be a local, but is thought by many to be an outsider posing as a local.

3july2008: Privateer Days almost upon us.... traditionally one of the South Shore's most satisfying summer events, the Annual Privateers Days gets underway this weekend in Liverpool. Featuring music (Matt Minglewood!), games, a parade and historic encampment with the King's Orange Rangers and others, the event is a family crowd-pleaser.  >>> see web here

2july2008: Lobster fishers to meet with Keddy... Lobster fishermen are being urged to attend a meeting Thursday afternoon in Barrington Passage, according to reports on CJLS Radio
     The report says South Shore M-P Gerald Keddy has agreed to meet with fishermen who are protesting against the presence of scallop draggers on their lobster grounds. They say the draggers are ruining the fishery. They say this is a particularly sensitive time as lobsters are molting. 
     Protest spokesperson Heather Stewart told CJLS that it is important for all lobster fishermen to show up tomorrow to show unity. Thursday's meeting with Gerald Keddy takes place at 2pm on the Barrington side of the Cape Sable Island Causeway. (Tim Horton's parking lot.)

30june2008: Lockeport daycare says web report about violations makes things look worse... About 50 daycares around Nova Scotia have been cited for violations of the Day Care Act and violations are listed on a new provincial website.
     As of June 25, the Fox and the Hare in Lockeport had the highest number of violations with 16 and has until July 31 to correct them. Little People's Place in Shelburne and Huggy Bears in Barrington are listed with no violations... >>> more 

29june2008: Shelburne redcoats and longboat featured in another film... the redcoats and civilians of the the 3rd New Jersey Volunteers reenactment group, plus the coxswain and crew of Shelburne's star longboat were featured in yet another film project over the weekend.
     3RB Productions and producer Steve Mckinnon from New Brunswick were in town to shoot scenes for "Spirit Cove", a two-hour, made for TV feature film about the Acadian expulsion. Members of the 3rd New Jersey portrayed British and French soldiers and fleeing Acadian civilians.
     Local filmmaker Rick Davis was also on the set shooting specialty footage. Davis, a longtime veteran in the field,  has recently started Fireworx Media a film, video and web-specialty firm.
     Filming will continue in Caraquet and Miramachi.

29june2008:  Visitors to the Hank Snow Museum find out just how big a star we really was... museum featured in Toronto Star... >>> more

29june2008:  Vampire film to be shot in Shelburne...  Halifax film maker Paul Kimball plans to bring his cast and crew to Shelburne in August to shoot portions of Eternal Kiss, written and directed by Kimball and produced by his Halifax-based Red Star Films. The feature film stars Halifax talents Christina Cuffari, Vanessa Furlong, Amy Kerr, and Elizabeth Langstrom.
     The plot, according to Kimball, involves an evil female vampire who owns a sound stage in a small, rural town. "The Sea Coast Studios sound stage and Shelburne are a perfect fit," Kimball told SCT. The film is budgeted at $500,000 to $750,000.
     Kimball's previous projects include Synchronicity (Bravo - 2008) and Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings (Space, TVNZ - 2007). He produced the 1996 New Frontiers Symposium:Extraterrestrial Life, Space Exploration, & The Future and was a featured speaker at UFO Retro 3 in Yucca Valley, California.  He is a regular columnist in Alien Worlds Magazine. UFO interview with Kimball HERE. See sample of Best Evidence HERE  See another sample of Kimball's work HERE . See Kimball's Red Star website HERE.
    "Anne MacKenzie of Film Nova Scotia suggested Shelburne over coffee one day," adds Kimball. "I called the new owners that day and here we are." The regional development authority and CEO Frank Anderson have been very helpful, says Kimball. 
    Kimball has a distribution deal in place for Kiss and also plans to film his next project here, for which he has full financing in hand from an American firm. Plans are also underway to adapt Kimball's play Doing Time, to the screen, starring Cuffari, who will appear in a Boulder (Colorado) International Fringe Festival production of the piece in August.

29june2008: More good news for Shelburne County... in less than a months time, an up-start media venture has been launched in the area, purporting to counter the prevalence of "lousy-news" media. Called "Nova Scotia South Shore Good Times: Enjoying Life from Yarmouth to Mahone Bay", the eight-page newsprint tab was direct-delivered into mailboxes Friday.
    The give-away shows no indication of publisher or printer, as is the norm, but a front-page message from "Jimmy Kendrick's messy desk", a lovelorn advice column from "Mary & Jimmy" and a full-page ad for their new meat market, would seem to peg it from SeaCoast Entertainments,  new owners of the former base and sound stage in Sandy Point.
     Less than a month ago, a Shelburne County News blog erupted claiming also to be an antidote to the prevalence of negativism hereabouts. The blog alternates from kudos to local pols to slamming local activists, but is a welcome addition to the local news-o-sphere. Jump in boys and girls, the media waters run deep.

7june2008: OUCH!... MacDonald slams minister in ATV debacle... Premier Rodney MacDonald is back-peddling faster than a Cirque du Soleil star to distance himself from the $260k ATVs-for-Tots program announced recently by Barry Barnet... >>> more

27june2008: No Power to the people for 13 years... "This is not in the middle of nowhere," says Shelburne Muni CAO Kirk Cox, as he  questions provincial government decision to charge homeowners in Upper Ohio more than $11,000 for an power line easement in order for the long-overdue installation pf electrical power... >>> more