Gas and Diesel Up, Again
As predicted, the price of gas went up overnight.
Gas rose by 1.6 cents a litre and now goes for a minimum of $1.43.2 in Cape Breton.
Meanwhile, diesel jumped by 1.4 cents a litre and now costs a minimum of $1.49.4.
As predicted, the price of gas went up overnight.
Gas rose by 1.6 cents a litre and now goes for a minimum of $1.43.2 in Cape Breton.
Meanwhile, diesel jumped by 1.4 cents a litre and now costs a minimum of $1.49.4.
The Cape Breton Victoria-Regional School Board is now going to consult students as it looks at what to do with its school buildings.
The board has released a discussion paper called Looking Inward that says it has too much real estate and not enough students to fill it.
It outlines 32 possible scenarios that includes closing and amalgamating schools.
After recent community consultations the list of scenarios went up to 81.
The Board says it will now create seven student accommodation groups to look at how the scenarios would affect their schools.
The groups will also be made up of principals and members from school advisory councils.
They’ll report back to the board by the end of the school year.
The Diocese of Antigonish plans to demolish three churches in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
St. Alphonsus Church in Low Point, St. Joseph Church in New Victoria and St. Agnes Church in New Waterford will all be torn down.
Diocese spokesperson Fr. Donald MacGillivray says the tenders for the work have already gone out.
He adds the decision was made after attempts to sell the church buildings failed.
He believes the properties will be sold although he isn’t sure what will happen at St. Alphonsus where there’s a cemetery on the property.
The Diocese closed 16 of 43 churches in Cape Breton and Victoria counties after a recent review of church properties.
A review of churches in Antigonish, Guysborough and Richmond counties is expected to be completed this summer and MacGillvray says it’s likely more churches will close.
He cites a declining population, an aging priesthood and growing cost pressures, as factors behind the closure and sale of church properties.
MacGillivray says the demolition orders for the three Cape Breton churches has nothing to do with the effort to pay off a $15-million settlement with those who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of priests .
A Glace Bay man has had a charge of being an accessory after the fact in the murder of Laura Jessome, dismissed.
39-year-old Brian Augustine Deruelle was one of two Glace Bay men charged with being an accessory in relation to the May 2012 death of 21year-old Jessome from Bras d’Or.
The second accused, 37-year-old Robert Edwin Matheson is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing on the charge on Oct. 27.
The charge against Deruelle was withdrawn during a court appearance in Sydney, yesterday.
The Crown says there was no reasonable expectation of a successful prosecution in the case.
Two other Glace Bay men, 38-year-old Thomas Ted Barrett and 23-year-old Morgan James MacNeil are charged with second degree murder in Jessome’s death.
Cape Breton-Canso MP Rodger Cuzner is blaming the high cost of flying out of Sydney for his posting of the second highest expenses of all Liberal MP’s.
Cuzner racked up more than 23,200 dollars in expenses from October 1 to December 31st of last year.
Most of the expenses were for flights from Cape Breton to Ottawa to attend Parliament.
Cuzner says he compared the expenses of Nova Scotia Liberal MP’s Geoff Regan and Scott Brison and adds the biggest difference is the cost of flights going from Halifax to Sydney.
Meanwhile, Sydney-Victoria Liberal MP Mark Eyking incurred just over 19-thousand dollars in expenses over the same period.