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Halifax Regional Councillors share their biggest concerns for the provincial election thecoast.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thecoast.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Viola Desmond and Alexander Keith’s graveyard clears heritage hurdle Those who like history like it a lot. Halifax’s Camp Hill Cemetery got almost perfect marks in its evaluation at a special meeting of the HRM heritage advisory committee. Among the thousands of marked and unmarked graves at the 177-year-old burial ground are the final resting place of both civil rights activist Viola Desmond and brewer-politician Alexander Keith. In a virtual meeting last week, the committee heard staff presentations on two potentially heritage-worthy sites: the cemetery on the block between Jubilee and Spring Garden Roads and Robie and Summer Streets, proposed by the Halifax Military Heritage Preservation Society, and the Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax at 5500 Inglis Street, proposed by the UU church itself. The committee evaluates the presented locations to decide if they should be considered at a heritage hearing. Both motions pass ....
Posted: Jul 26, 2021 9:14 PM AT | Last Updated: July 27 The conveyors for the front-end processor at the Otter Lake landfill are shown.(Halifax Regional Municipality) Some people in the Halifax-area communities of Timberlea, Lakeside and Beechville feel a decades-old promise has been broken by regional council. Last week, council voted to approve ending the process of sorting and separating organics and recyclables from the garbage bags sent to the Otter Lake landfill. An agreement made in 1999 ensured the waste processing facility would include a front-end processor and waste stabilization facility. These processes make sure no organic garbage goes into the landfill by breaking open bags to sort garbage and composting organics. ....
Halifax officials want to end organics, recyclables sorting at Otter Lake landfill cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Posted: May 06, 2021 11:51 AM AT | Last Updated: May 6 The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children building is shown in 2016.(Steve Berry/CBC) Halifax regional council approved the rezoning for part of the property where the former Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children is located after a public hearing on Tuesday. The 129 hectares in Dartmouth is now owned by Akoma Holdings. It asked to change the designation of 28 hectares adjacent to Highway 7 from urban reserve to rural commuter to allow redevelopment to take place. The group also asked to have water and sewer extended to the site. Shelley Fashan, a member of Akoma s property committee, told council the plans include a community centre, commercial space and a mix of housing that benefits African Nova Scotians. ....