City council has to deal with a lot of petty stuff, from potholes to leash laws. It’s not quite as glamorous as today’s federal politicians, who get to play Santa Claus and hand out a bunch of Tru-dough across the country. But local leaders rule when it comes to development, which is probably the most […]
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Job mentality
Halifax’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.9 percent last month, almost on par with the national average at 6.6 percent. Crappy weather aside, a job search in HRM at this time of year can be spiritually exhausting. “But when people have the tools that are required to secure employment, the search becomes much easier,” says Cora […]
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Saying goodbye to the YMCA
Its closure has long been discussed as part of the plan for a nice new fitness facility, but now the South Park Street YMCA’s last days have arrived, and the community that’s grown up with the Y for the last 61 years is just starting to face the loss. Click here for our stand-alone features […]
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Be Massage Therapy’s moving
The closure of the South Park Street’s YMCA (don’t even, we’re still coping over here) means that after nine years Be Massage Therapy (1565 South Park Street) is on the move. Be and its therapists will remain open and working out clients’ kinks inside the Y until May 5, then it’ll call 1341 Birmingham Street […]
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South Park YMCA set to close in May
We all knew this was coming, but for some reason it still feels shocking—the South Park facility of the YMCA will be closing its doors permanently as of May 30. The aging 1564 South Park Street has been home to the Y for 60 years, growing an engaged community of regulars (disclosure, myself included) along […]
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Best Gym
Gold Winner 360fit Silver Winner South Park YMCA Bronze Winner Good Life Fitness, Park Victoria “A client said to me recently, ‘It’s like Cheers without alcohol’,” says Devin Sherrington of his gold-winning gym, 360fit, where everybody knows your name, apparently. When it comes to his award-winning fitness regiment, he attributes most of his trainee fans […]
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Best Gym
Gold Winner Good Life Fitness, Park Lane Silver Winner 360fit Bronze Winner South Park YMCA Melissa Conrad, general manager at the Good Life co-ed club in Park Lane Mall, has the kind of energy you might not expect late-afternoon on a Tuesday, but she’s just learned that her location has won gold in our inaugural […]
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Halifax council recap
In a closed-door session Tuesday, Halifax council discussed the Argyle Street parking fiasco of a few weeks back: at 5pm on a Friday—happy hour for the bars—crews threw “no parking” signs on meters and went into businesses to warn patrons their cars would soon be towed. Businesses reportedly lost hundreds of customers. The city subsequently […]
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South Park YMCA to get cable TV treadmills
TV has rarely married well with good health. But further to the battle against tedium while you exercise, coming soon to the South Park YMCA are new 17″ personal viewing screens with 60 channels of cable (including The Comedy Network, if you wanted to watch South Park while sweating on South Park). Four will be […]