What’s wrong? Year Zero on Lake Banook. Who’s responsible? Anne Wambolt, coordinator of sport and community events, 490-4096 REMARKS A reader told us the brand new sign “has a Y2K problem”—it wasn’t properly displaying the year. We called Wambolt, who immediately worked some computer magic right there in her Burnside office, and just like that, […]
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Former Value Village building site for Harbourview Weekend Market
The former Value Village building in downtown Dartmouth is soon to be home to the Harbourview Weekend Market. “It’s part farmers’ market, part flea market, part antiques,” explains owner Gary Janes, who successfully ran a similar operation in London, Ontario, before moving back to his native Maritimes. Janes says there will be 200 booth spaces available. “About a third of the space will be for farmers, and about a fifth for a food court,” he explains. He acknowledges that securing farmers can be difficult, “but that’s the key to it—farmers is what brings the customers back.” Harbourview Weekend Market will
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Go local in Dartmouth
1. Alderney Landing; 2. Celtic Corner, La Perla; 3. The Landing/Blue Star; 4. Dragon & Butterfly; 5. Kudo’s; 6. Mystery Diner ( ); 7. Radical Leathers. On the ferry, I squint in the afternoon sun. Ahead of me lies Dartmouth, spread out before the bow of the good ship Woodside II. To the right is […]