Schmidtville Proposed Tree Massacre

By Andrew Macdonald Never shy to comment on the Nova Scotia and Halifax public affairs file, entrepreneur John Risley has strong opinions about an option being considered at the bureaucratic level of City Hall. At last count, I have filed 21 stories on this proposed...

By Andrew Macdonald

Schmidtville Trees: A HFX Developer Chopped Down A Backyard Forest in ‘93 – And Everyone Heard About it: The Saga of Frozen Holiday Turkeys for A Felled Forest

I think we need to offer modern-day Halifax City Hall a fine history lesson when it comes to chopping down trees.

As bureaucrats and politicos at City Hall now consider an option to fell 30 stately trees at Schmidtville’s Morris Street, off of Spring Garden Road, because the city wants to build a bike lane, by widening the street, and thus needing the possibility to ‘massacre’ the 30 grand and majestic trees on the downtown Halifax street, The Notebook offers a lesson on a noted housing developer’s own saga with chainsawing trees.

By Andrew Macdonald A City Tree Fell In 1999 - And Everyone Heard About It - Including The Cops Thanks for a 'historical news tip' which led me to contact a fine Halifax librarian, whose research skills led me to six archived news articles from the years 1999-2000 as...

By Andrew Macdonald Digging further into the the life of the City of Halifax with the aid and help of a fine librarian researcher, I have come across a story that played out in 1999-2000. A developer felled a stately 10-metre elm tree on a street in Halifax, and the...

By Andrew Macdonald My comprehensive coverage of the idea HRM might take a chainsaw to 30 of 48 stately trees on Morris Street in Schmidtville has been labeled by some as fake news. Yet Mark Nener, a bureaucrat with the municipality’s Transportation department, has...

By Andrew Macdonald First, a staffer at Halifax City Hall requested participants for a planned bike lane to be installed on Schmdtville’s Morris Street be kept private. In other words, a committee meeting of Halifax Regional Municipality on Oct. 14 with members of...

By Andrew Macdonald Halifax City Hall Confirms Bureaucrat Asked For Schmidtville Proposed Tree Massacre Be Kept ‘Top Secret’ For the record, I put a few questions on HRM bureaucrat Mark Nener's request to keep the options of a bike lane, and the possible plan to...

By Andrew Macdonald All-Points Bulletin Issued By The Notebook: - Politico Waye Mason Is Missing In Action As Schmidtville Cries As Schmidtville Cries, the Halifax regional councillor for Schmidtville & Southend Halifax is missing in action. I’ve issued an...

By Andrew Macdonald The Halifax City Hall committee meeting working to install a planned bike lane on Morris Street, in historic Schmidtville was held on Oct. 14th, 2020. The city staffer made a plea at the end of this meeting to have the discussion kept private - in...

By Andrew Macdonald An official at Halifax City Hall who contacted me did not wish to be named in this article pushed back on my Notebook Schmidtville possible tree massacre coverage - but then said the trees won’t be chainsawed down. “Your Schmidtville (stories) are...