NEW GLASGOW – It may not be the biggest achievement by local track and field athletes, but it ranks right up there for three North Nova Education Centre students. Allister Mason, Ryan Washburn and Peter MacIntosh won medals among the members of the North Nova team that attended the Nike High School Grand Prix track and field meet that took place from May 9 to 12 in Toronto. Mason won [...]

NEW GLASGOW – Both the North Nova boys and girls rugby teams are trying to win their way to Northumberland Region rugby championship games on Thursday. But first come matches slated for Tuesday in which the Gryphons hope they can to set up regional showdowns. The Gryphons were scheduled to host the Cobequid Cougars in Tuesday’s male match and the Hants East Tigers in the female match. Both the Gryphons [...]

NEW GLASGOW – The Pictou County Sports Heritage Fall of Fame’s collection of basketball items grew last Saturday with the donation of numerous photos, records and other artifacts by New Glasgow basketball supporter and enthusiast Anse MacDonald. MacDonald, whose two sons Brent and Bruce played on editions of the former New Glasgow High School Panthers, decided to donate the items as he continues to wind down his basketball volunteer work. [...]

TRENTON – Half-Century marks are coming for both Dave MacLennan and the Joe Earle Memorial Day Road Races. MacLennan will turn 50 years of age later this year and celebrate his entry into Senior Masters Division running. He showed few effects Monday, from running a Boston Marathon qualifying time on Sunday by finishing eighth in two hours, 56 minutes at the 10th annual Blue Nose Marathon in Halifax, as he [...]

SCOTSBURN – Nearly 50 runners decided to give the Fitz Frenzy a try despite fridged conditions on Sunday in Scotsburn. It was the first year for the two races offered at seven-kilometre and 14-kilometre distances, with the start and finish behind the tennis courts in Scotsburn and trails climbing and descending Fitzpatrick Mountain. The 7-K race proved to be a good test for North Nova Education Centre runners Jenna MacDonald [...]

NEW GLASGOW – Three Pictou County teams are among those contesting Nova Scotia High School Lacrosse League playoffs this week. The first place North Nova Gryphons are hosting the fourth place Northumberland Nighthawks at 5:30 p.m. today, while the second place Hants East Tigers are hosting the Pictou Academy Pit Bulls at 3:30 p.m. today in Bible Hill at its recreation centre. The teams have played an abbreviated field variety [...]

Cody MacDonald and Allistair Conway were honoured with major awards presented on May 14 during the 2013 awards banquet hosted by the Pictou County Minor Hockey Association. MacDonald received the award presented by the Executive of Pictou County Minor Hockey in memory of Donald Gladwin, John MacDonald, Lee Marie and Shawn Mackay. It is awarded annually to the player or member of the bench staff who has exemplified dedication to [...]

How would you like to be the executive director of a provincial-wide organization like Hockey Nova Scotia? Sounds like a dream job for someone who grew up playing the game and loves sports in general, doesn’t it? Imagine getting paid a good salary to work in hockey, to attend countless games during your working hours, to talk hockey hour after hour, day after day. Those are pretty interesting perks. But [...]

PICTOU – Rollie MacDonald has a rookie to drive his 2013 entry in the Maritime Pro Stock Tour. Denver Foran of Edmonton has been trying out MacDonald’s car since arriving earlier this spring to prepare for the tour’s opening race on Sunday at Scotia SpeedWorld. “I can’t wait for the first race,” Foran said Thursday while working on MacDonald’s car. The Pro Stock Tour is really professional, the way it’s [...]

A young fellow who’s showing interest in journalism recently asked how many columns I’ve written in my newspaper career. I couldn’t give him an answer because I simply don’t know. However, because I’ve been indexing my columns in recent years, I was able to tell him that, since June 1996, I’m approaching my 1,686th offering. That includes my last years at The Chronicle Herald, six years writing for the New [...]

NEW GLASGOW – Two members of North Nova Education Centre’s male track and field team won medals at the 2013 Nike High School Grand Prix track meet last weekend in Toronto. Allister Mason and Ryan Washburn won gold medals, while Peter MacIntosh took home a silver medal. Mason won the 110-metre hurdles in 16.3 seconds while Washburn won his 800-metre race in 2:08:40. They also earned medals in their 400-metre [...]

STELLARTON – Athletes from Northumberland Regional High School turned in good results last Thursday during the first day of the district high school track and field meet at Pioneer Coal Field. Grade 8 student Tatum McLean placed first in junior high girls shot put with a heave of 9.91 metres, while Paige MacDonald from Thorburn Consolidated was second with a 7.44 distance. McLean is considered one of the promising local [...]

STELLARTON – The Stellarton Albions are hoping continuity among a host of contemporary players will produce a successful baseball season. The Bantam AA Albions are getting ready for the 2013 season that includes membership in Baseball Nova Scotia’s Bluenose League. “We’re going to be strong,” coach Kent Mason said. “We’re a big hitting team and we’re good defensively and have strong starting pitching. A lot of the players have been [...]

SCOTSBURN – Dave MacLennan hopes he can achieve a qualifying time at this year’s Blue Nose Marathon for the 2014 BAA Marathon in Boston. MacLennan will be 50 when the Boston date arrives, which will place him in a different category and required a slower qualifying time. The Blue Nose run will start at 8 a.m. on May 19. Its route includes crossing the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge, parts of [...]

NEW GLASGOW – The North Nova Scotia Gryphons have fired the first salvo in its effort to claim a new rugby trophy being contested by male high school teams this spring. The host Gryphons defeated the Northumberland Nighthawks 59-0 on April 30 in both their male and female matches, with the male teams contesting the trophy for the first time after it was formally introduced before their game. The trophy [...]

NEW GLASGOW – Three members of the boys’ track and field team from North Nova Education Centre in New Glasgow that will represent Nova Scotia in the 2013 Nike High School Grand Prix invitational track and field meet this week in Toronto say they’re looking forward to the event. Sam Cameron, Ryan Washburn and Spencer MacDonald will be among athletes from across Canada taking part in the meet from Thursday [...]

STELLARTON – A highly respected Canadian national team member has returned to Pictou County to share his vast knowledge and passion for volleyball. Rod Walsh impressed upon more than two dozen coaches and young players of varying ages on the need to work long and hard to acquire the skills and take them to the top level possible for them during a volleyball clinic at the G.R. Saunders Elementary School [...]

Years ago, baseball movies at local theatres were a dime a dozen. There seemed to always be a new one coming, and I’d go to them all. The first one I recall seeing was Pride of the Yankees at the old Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow. It made quite an impression on me, probably the foremost reason I became a New York Yankees fan, a status I held until the [...]

TRENTON – It is a busy time for Albion boxers. Members of the Albion club are looking forward to upcoming cards and have already taken part in previous ones. One card is coming up on May 11, while two members of the club boxed last Saturday in Middleton and prior to that two boxers travelled to St. John’s, N.L. during the club’s annual trip to The Rock. Heavyweight Keegan Hughes [...]

TRENTON – It will be Debbie MacDonald Day when runners gather for the 49th annual Joe Earle Memorial Day Road Races in Trenton. MacDonald has been a long-standing distance runner in the area and is in training for some of the races that will take place on May 20. The race program starts at 9:30 a.m. with the Baxter MacArthur men’s open mile race, followed 10 minutes later by the [...]

NEW GLASGOW – A new trophy will be contested by local high school boys’ rugby teams. The Pictou County Senior Rugby Club has dedicated funds for a trophy to be awarded to the top male high school rugby team. Currently, that group included the North Nova Gryphons and the Northumberland Nighthawks. Pictou Academy has fielded teams in the past and will be included in the trophy hunt whenever it offers [...]

NEW GLASGOW – Awards were presented during the Pictou County Female Hockey Association’s fourth annual closing banquet on April 16 at North Nova Education Centre. During the evening, awards were presented to players from each of the six Pictou County Subway Selects teams for most valuable player for offence, most valuable player for defence, and coaches’ choice. The coaches’ choice award was given in recognition of a player who demonstrated [...]

ALMA – The Northumberland Nighthawks began their boys’ schedule this week after one more week of training and participation in a tournament at Saint Mary’s University. Coach John Rushton said it will be a rebuilding year in a short time, with just two returning players from last year’s roster. “They’re coming,” he said. “The tournament was really good for us . We’re a very young, inexperienced team but we have [...]

NEW GLASGOW – The North Nova Gryphons are off to a good start in both boys’ and girls’ high school rugby. Both teams were scheduled to host against the Cobequid Cougars on Tuesday before visiting the Hants East Tigers on Thursday and rounding out their April schedule next Tuesday by hosting the Northumberland Nighthawks in both boys and girls games. The girls posted two wins last week against the Hants [...]

I spend a lot of time – too much perhaps – on the internet. I check sports and news sources on Twitter several times a day, though I don’t send tweets myself. At least not yet. I visit a number of on-line sports sites regularly. Keeping contact with family and friends, in town and out, means plenty of incoming emails and outgoing replies. And, for sure, I have to keep [...]