On today’s show, we talk with Sackville Festival of Early Music co-director Christina Haldane about the festival’s presentation of Handel’s Messiah next week at the Mount Allison Chapel. The concert grew out of a collaboration with Nova Scotia’s Musique Royale series, and features singers from the Sackville festival’s Ensemble SFEM and Musique Royale’s Ménestral Singers.
Plus, we look at the municipality of Tantramar’s capital reserves, after council approved a transfer of $1.2 million into the reserves this past week. The municipality now has nearly $6 million socked away, which can be used to fund major projects without borrowing, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest payments. But the large amount of the unbudgeted reserve transfer is equal to the revenue from about 10 cents on the mill rate for 2025 tax bills, at a time when those bills are expected to go up on average 7% to 15% across Tantramar.
And an additional item added for our 5pm broadcast: Tantramar council has added an additional special meeting to its calendar on Monday, December 16, and on the agenda is third and final reading of two planning changes that will make way for major residential developments in Sackville.
