On today’s show, we take a look at some of the pitches for permanent locations for the Sackville Farmers Market, thought up by teams of high school students who are at Mount Allison this month for the SHAD program, an enrichment and entrepreneurship program for youth. Six teams proposed a variety of locations for a new market and multipurpose building, including the former foundry site at the end of Lorne Street, the Lansdowne Field, the empty lot at 3-5 Bridge Street, a second floor addition to the Sackville Library, and the former Irving gas station on Main Street, across from the library.
Plus in news briefs, a meeting of politicians today in Amherst aims to draw attention to the need for fortification of the Chignecto Isthmus, and three men accused of arson in a Petit Cap smokehouse fire will be back in court throughout the summer and fall.
