Voting for the Other Guy
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under This Town | Leave a Comment
Phil Mooney will be going up against Charles Crosby in the next Mayoral election. Crosby has been running the town into the ground for the last 20 years so hopefully this will be his last term. I’ll vote for Phil simply because he’s not Crosby. Unless his campaign turns out to be [...]
Read More..>>MORE Money?!
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under News, This Town | Leave a Comment
Now the Y’arc (Yarmouth Arts Regional Centre) needswants a new building, their current facility is getting very old and outdated. They’ve called for a public meeting on May 5, 2008 to discuss this. They needwant 8 million to build the new facility. At least they’ve been doing their own fund raising over [...]
Read More..>>More Competition Gone
Posted on April 16, 2008 - Filed Under Business, This Town | Leave a Comment
Heard a rumor on Monday that one of the other video stores in town was closing up. We all know how rumors can be though, but after taking a drive by L&S Video that night it was confirmed. The store was completely empty except for the shelving. I’ve got no idea what [...]
Read More..>>Unsafe Holes to be Filled In
Posted on April 12, 2008 - Filed Under This Town | Leave a Comment
A large gaping hole at William Street will finally be filled in. Well, not just yet, the owner is being ordered to fill it in, so I guess it’ll happen eventually. The hole in question was left behind after a large apartment building burned to the ground and then torn down about a [...]
Read More..>>Yarmouth getting new High School
Posted on April 9, 2008 - Filed Under This Town, building | Leave a Comment
It was announced yesterday that Yarmouth will be getting a new High School by 2011. The current one was built in 1951 and is in need of some renovations. After looking at the cost to renovate and expand the existing building, it was decided that an entirely new school was a better option, [...]
Read More..>>Maternity Clothes
Posted on April 8, 2008 - Filed Under This Town, shopping | Leave a Comment
Considering the amount of people having babies in this town at any given time of the year, it’s surprising how hard it is to find good maternity clothes around here. 5 years ago when the wife was pregnant it was even worse, there was next to nothing available and we ended up making a [...]
Read More..>>Justice Center costs Rise Ever Higher
Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under Ranting, This Town | Leave a Comment
So the latest news out of our grand multi-million dollar Justice Center is that there was an oil leak last weekend that went by un-noticed until Monday. Sources say up to 400 gallons of diesel leaked from an upper floor heating system and that an undisclosed amount of the fuel made it into the [...]
Read More..>>What does this town need?
Posted on March 7, 2008 - Filed Under Business, This Town | Leave a Comment
Aside from a kick in the pants I mean ;) What is missing from a retail perspective? What product or service is needed that is currently not being provided? We could always use more variety in restaurants, like a Swiss Chalet, Arby’s and Burger King, but franchise costs are insanely out of [...]
Read More..>>Justice Center price almost double
Posted on March 6, 2008 - Filed Under Ranting, This Town | Leave a Comment
To think some people were actually wondering why so many were opposed to this new municipla council building. A project that originally started in the 2 to 3 million dollar range and turned into a 5 million dollar job by the time the decision to go ahead was made.
Recently it was announced that the [...]
All’s Quiet on the Piracy Front
Posted on February 28, 2008 - Filed Under Business, This Town | Leave a Comment
Despite alleged attempts by Staples and Walmart to run all us little guys out of business by crying piracy to Microsoft, most of us are still here. I wrote a while back that Computers Are Us and Kwiklink were apparently shut down for those reasons and that a couple others were expected to go [...]
Read More..>>Council Helps Those Not in Need
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Ranting, This Town | 1 Comment
At a recent finance committee meeting, the owners of the local Canadian Tire asked for $7500 to help build a waterproof shelter for the farmers market that takes place in their parking lot. The market ran for 14 weeks last year and is planned to run 20 weeks next summer. That’s a lot [...]
Read More..>>Wanting to Move, but Where?
Posted on December 29, 2007 - Filed Under Business, News, This Town | Leave a Comment
So, we’ve been in this location for two years already and have one year left on the lease, but we’re considering moving again. Business downtown just isn’t what it used to be, at least not for us. Since Ideally something a little smaller that’s cheaper on rent and cheaper on heat. We [...]
Read More..>>Staples is the Culprit?
Posted on December 19, 2007 - Filed Under Business, News, This Town | 1 Comment
Had a funny question from a customer tonight as he was buying a new computer game. “So, are you guys planning to be around for a while?” Strange I though, maybe it’s his first time here, so I replied that we’ve been in business for 8 years and don’t plan on going anywhere. After that [...]
Read More..>>More on those Store Closings
Posted on December 18, 2007 - Filed Under Business, This Town, computers | Leave a Comment
It appears that Microsoft is running rampant in Good old Yarmouth, NS. The recent computer store closings are related after all, according to recent rumors. Originally, a couple months back, I heard that Computers Are Us had been busted for software piracy and that another store in town had been nailed as well. [...]
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