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• Burnside Slopitch league undergoing big changes
  To say the 2013 season of the Burnside Slopitch League will be completely different from those of the past 10 years is a gross understatement. ...
• Introducing Burnside’s new community response officer
  Like many young men starting out in life, Constable Mark Long really wasn’t sure what he wanted to be when he grew up. However, being the Halifax ...
• Spar Marine, CME growing along with MAN Diesel & Turbo
  Two Burnside firms are directly benefitting from the arrival of MAN Diesel & Turbo in the Nova Scotia marketplace. Spar Marine Ltd. and ...
• Business of the Year Awards adding a voting twist
  We here at the Burnside News are starting to gear up for the 2013 version of The Burnside News Business of the Year Awards. Since its inception, ...
• GDP a stop-gap, not a real commercial tax policy
  Similar to the recent council vote on the city’s budget, we have unanimous agreement that Halifax needs to change its commercial tax structure. ...
• Updated: Thermo Dynamics expanding thanks to
  Halifax’s Solar City pilot program is just getting started, but by the time it’s finished Thermo Dynamics expects to have cranked out more than ...
• CSC moving forward with halfway house project
  Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has officially asked the Department of National Defence (DND) to transfer land adjacent to Burnside Business ...
• Industrial condo making building ownership easier
  The market for owner-occupied premises has rarely been better. With interest rates at record lows, many businesses are looking at converting ...
• Maritime Reptile Zoo set to open on Akerley
  Delays have pushed things back a bit, but with any luck the doors to Halifax’s first permanent reptile zoo will open this month in Burnside. The ...
• Halfway house planned for end of Morris Drive
  The Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility may soon get a little brother if Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) builds a new halfway house at ...
• Half measures won’t sell halfway house
  I want to make it clear right from the start of this editorial that I am not, in principle, opposed to the plan to build a halfway house at the ...
• Forensics completes dominating season
  Forensics has gone wire to wire in the Burnside Curling League, capturing first place in week one and not relinquishing it all season. Finishing ...
• SBM Tech celebrating 20th anniversary
  SBM Tech, an operating division of Shoreline Business Machines, is celebrating its 20th anniversary — a milestone that marks just how far the ...
• Strange bedfellows: income tax and council getting...
  I have a couple of items I want to address in this month’s column, starting with some comments on the cover story and secondly to follow up on ...
• Strange bedfellows: income tax and council getting...
  I have a couple of items I want to address in this month’s column, starting with some comments on the cover story and secondly to follow up on ...
• Burnside Watch helped tame Park’s mean streets
  When The Burnside News first rolled off the press in 1985, one of the biggest problems faced by Park companies was crime. In those early days it ...
• GBBA promoting Burnside as provincial concern
  The Greater Burnside Business Association (GBBA) has already made great strides in terms of increasing its profile within the corridors of City ...
• Internal competition challenging CCNS
  Contact Centre Nova Scotia (CCNS) is facing a challenge and it has turned to a local charity to help. Now in its third year, the United Way ...
• Get your facts straight
  I delayed writing this editorial for an entire day. Why? Because I was too angry to write it yesterday and was worried I might write something ...
• SNF rezone application defeated... for now
  Maybe the third time will be the charm. SNF GP Inc.’s second attempt to rezone its property at 60 Simmonds Dr. from I-2 general industrial to I-4 ...
• Brycon, CBCL poised to win Burnside tenders
  City staff is recommending Brycon Construction be awarded a $7.189 million contract for street, sidewalk and lot construction in the Atlantic ...
• Full disclosure is needed
  I don’t usually comment on the advertising in my paper. I recognize it as a necessity, as the instrument by which the bills are paid and the ...
• Lawtons marks 15 years of bus stuffing
  Staff at Lawtons head office in Burnside reached out to all their friends, clients and neighbours in December to raise donations for Feed Nova ...
• Bastarache opening Hose & Fittings Canada on Ilsley
  The timing is perfect for Ron Bastarache to finally fulfill a 20-year-long dream. Bastarache says it was 20 years ago that he first started ...
• Annual hockey tournament a mainstay in United Way...
  Every November the Xerox contact centre raises money for the United Way. Everyone participates, doing bake sales and raffles – about 20 different ...
• A new plan for the New Year
  Cast your mind way back to 2008. Halifax Regional Municipality had just recently completed its Regional Development Plan and had commissioned a ...
• Study findings make me feel good
  There is certainly nothing wrong with having the courage of one's convictions and stating your position clearly for all to see. But it sure is ...
• Election's over: so who promised what?
  Now that the municipal election is over and we know who won, now is the time to look back at what the winners promised so we know what to watch ...
• New owners take over at Minuteman in Bayers Lake
  Mike Maheux finally got what he wanted. For the past couple of years, Maheux has been in talks with Gord Gamble to take over his Bayers Lake ...
• Burke says award a real team effort
  Jennifer Burke says she might be the one on stage in Vegas accepting Best Western International's award for Sales Director of the Year, but she's ...