National Day of Mourning

2018 Spring Clean Up

For more information: Spring Clean Up

Lunenburg Town Council Meeting Digest - April 10, 2018

Public Presentation

• The South Shore Housing Action Coalition presented a report on Households, Income and Housing across Lunenburg and Queens Counties, stressing the need for supportive and affordable housing rural Nova Scotia. 

Correspondence 

• Correspondence from the Campaign to Protect Offshore Nova Scotia about proposed offshore drilling near Nova Scotia for Council response was reviewed. Council passed a resolution opposing development of offshore oil exploration in June 2016, and letters were sent to Federal and Provincial government representatives at that time. Council agreed that the letters should be updated and re-sent, indicating the Town’s unchanged position.

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A Book of Condolence

Lunenburg Public Consultations Town Budget 2018/19

TOWN OF LUNENBURG DRAFT BUDGET

Public Tips: Pests

New Tenant for Lunenburg Academy

The Lunenburg Academy Foundation and Town of Lunenburg are pleased to welcome Nevermore Press, the newest tenant to Lunenburg Academy. 

Nevermore Press is a small publishing company specializing in fiction and creative nonfiction from Nova Scotian and Atlantic Canadian writers. Established by Publisher/Editor Ernest Hadley and his wife, Assistant Editor Anne Mullins. They come to Lunenburg after living in Truro, MA, at the tip of Cape Cod for many years; they had been frequent visitors to Nova Scotia prior to their move here. "We're excited to be a part of the restoration of this historic building and look forward to being part of the community as well," Hadley said.

Please welcome Nevermore Press - and its owners - to Lunenburg!

Security Online

With the recent reports of Facebook’s involvement with data mining, we’d like to remind residents about the importance of online security on the world’s largest social media platform. Privacy settings should be re-checked regularly to confirm system updates have not changed your preferences. 

Links: 

-A segment from CBC Mainstreet this past week about Facebook: https://goo.gl/P4Ga2D 

-A Consumer Reports article with instructions on Facebook privacy settings: https://goo.gl/YoQdag 

-A Wired (magazine) article also on Facebook privacy settings: https://goo.gl/7b44Qe 

-Facebook’s own Help Centre on “Basic Privacy Settings and Tools": https://goo.gl/xxUxu1

-General online safety tips from Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers: https://goo.gl/kgkAkg

Safe surfing!

Norway Comes to Lunenburg

Norway’s Ambassador to Canada, H. E. Anne Kari Hansen Ovind, made a visit to Lunenburg yesterday; Sunday, March 11. 

Ambassador Ovind and a contingent of Norwegian naval personnel currently docked in Halifax made a trip to Lunenburg to tour sites related to Camp Norway. Mayor Rachel Bailey greeted them along with Cheryl Lamerson, President of the SS Genealogy Society, who led the tour around Town. 

Wreaths were laid at the Norwegian monument at the cenotaph and at the monument at the Camp Norway site on Tannery Road.

See below for photos of our distinguished guests.