By Andrew Macdonald Besides a focus of late on political endorsements for “Mayor for Life" Mike Savage last weekend, and a second endorsement that millennial-aged Max Taylor place in a strong position as a mayoralty campaign - and our recent comprehensive election...
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What We’re Working On: The Sunday Notebook: Taking You, Dear Reader, On A Tour Of The Roy Condos & A Chat With The Captain Of The Port Of Halifax!!
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Halifax City Hall Has A Plan To Cut Down 48 Mature Stately Trees in Historic Schmidtville – And HRM Wanted To Keep This Plan ‘Top Secret’
By Andrew Macdonald Halifax City Hall Wants To Cut Down 48 Trees in Historic Schmidtville - Residents ‘Shocked’ Halifax City Hall wanted to keep a plan to mow down - cut down, chainsaw - 48 mature trees in historic Schmidtville - ‘top secret’. HRM has suggested the...
Lyndon Watkins – The Mayor Of Schmidtville – Provides A Youtube Tour Of Halifax’s First Subdivision – Established In 1750s
By Andrew Macdonald Lyndon Watkins - The Mayor Of Schmidtville - On A Tour Of Significance Of Halifax’s First Subdivision Lyndon Watkins is the Official Mayor of Schmidtville - in the 1970s he began to buy properties in what is Halifax’s first subdivision, established...
Development: A Chat With Jim Spatz, Newly Minted Granddad, & What It Means To Build Halifax’s Coolest Apartment Project
By Andrew Macdonald Now in self-isolation for two weeks after a delightful trip to see his two adult sons in Toronto and, for the first time, to meet the fourth generation, Spatz, to live in this country, Jim Spatz is on a significant roll. As The Notebook chronicles...
Development: Jim Spatz Bests Danny Chedrawe & Louie Lawen To Win Best High Rise Apartment Project; Double Awards For Curve Rentals
By Andrew Macdonald Jim Spatz, everyone’s favourite developer — and there are many in this vaunted league — is newly minted as a grandfather. That is a milestone, but it gets better for the apartment and condo developer: His new Curve residential rental high-rise in...
Real Estate: Realtor Rick Foster Even Collects Multiple Offers In Tiny Fishing Village Of Terence Bay
By Andrew Macdonald
Real Estate: Rick Foster Even Collected Multiple Offers In Tiny Fishing Village At Terence Bay
The recent phenomena of multiple offers, which began to take root on Peninsula Halifax in 2019 are spreading to the rural parts of Halifax Regional Municipality.
Speaking with prominent Halifax-South Shore realtor Rick Foster, now of Engel & Volkers NS, he tells The Notebook he collected multiple offers on a mansion listing in the historic and tiny fishing village of Terence Bay.
Republican Fox TV’s Tucker Carlson Mispronounced ‘Ottawa’ – He Ought To Know Better Because He Once Owned Island Off Chester NS
By Andrew Macdonald
Republican Fox TV’s Tucker Carlson Once Owned a Chester Island – But He Mispronounced Ottawa – He Should Know Better
Right-wing TV pundit, Tucker Carlson the other day botched up the pronunciation of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa.
As the CBC was quick to report he stressed “the second syllable of the city’s name instead of the first — essentially pronouncing it “aw-TUH-wah” instead of “AW-tuh wah”, the public broadcaster reported.
His mispronunciation was a right-winger’s slight of Democrat nominee Joe Bidden’s VP running mate.
Meet The Builders Of The QE II Cottage Lottery At Skipper Hill: Jon Dimick, Lisa Gallant & Christopher Ahrendt
By Andrew Macdonald
Meet The Builders Of The QE II Cottage Lottery At Skipper Hill: Jon Dimick, Lisa Gallant & Christopher Ahrendt
The QE II Home Lottery will see a lucky winner picked on Oct. 15th on CTV Atlantic at 5 p.m. – The fall lottery has sold out.
“Patients who arrive at the QEII for care – everything from routine testing to surgery to emergency medicine and more – benefit greatly from funds raised by the QEII Home Lottery. Funds have supported emergency equipment needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, comfort and care items, new treatment spaces, innovative technology like surgical robotics, and research grants”, says the QE II Health Sciences Foundation.
While the mansion is the top prize, for the last five years or so, the real deal prize if you ask me is a year-round ‘cottage’ at Chester’s Skipper Hill.
Alison Strachan: Home Renovations In Historic Lunenburg
By Alison Strachan LUNENBURG: It's been a while since I've written anything for The Notebook and there's been a fairly decent selfish reason for that. The back of my home in Lunenburg has been a construction site since July. Former Lunenburg Heritage Planner, Bill...
Real Estate: Ten Years Later, Chester Island Oasis Sells After $4 Million Slashed From Asking Price
By Andrew Macdonald Originally listed for a commanding $9.5 million in 2010, the word reaching The Notebook is that a 57-acre property with no neighbors on an island off of Chester has just sold. I refer to Kaulbach Island, first listed in 2010 with realtor Tim...
