Mahone Bay Town Council will soon begin their annual budget deliberations. Part of these discussions will include a review of applications for Grants under the Town's Grants to Organizations Policy. To learn more about this policy visit https://www.townofmahonebay.ca/uploads/1/3/0/6/130665195/grants_to_organizations.pdf Deadline to apply is March 31st.  2025 Property Assessment Notices have been mailed to every property owner in Mahone Bay from Property Valuation Services Corporation. For more information about property assessment in Nova Scotia visit pvsc.ca.  The Town of Mahone Bay is seeking volunteers to be the frontline staff for the Comfort Centre at the Mahone bay and District Fire Department at 41 Hawthorn Road. A Comfort Centre is a place where people can go for warming, cooling, electricity, washroom and other amenities during an emergency situation. Before completing this volunteer application, please read the Town of Mahone Bay Comfort Centre Operating Procedures, https://www.townofmahonebay.ca/emergency-services.html. The application can be found here, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SJKJ32F. If you have any questions, please contact Eric J. Levy at [email protected].  Time is running out! The deadline to apply to Town Committees and Boards is Wednesday, January 8th. ________________________________________________________________________________________ The Town of Mahone Bay is recruiting volunteers to serve on the Town's Committees and Boards for the 2025-2026 term. To learn about the Town's various Boards and Committees and complete the application form, visit townofmahonebay.ca/committees.html  Our new Mahone Bay Town Council will soon begin the process of developing their 2025-2029 Strategic Plan and they want to hear from you! Your feedback will help prioritize the issues raised during the 2024 election campaign and inform the Town’s budget process and long-term planning. Click on this link, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GFXK9W5 to complete a short survey.  Once again Mahone Bay resident's Christmas trees, garland and wreaths that are picked up on the special tree collection date (January 13th) will be delivered to a local farm for their goats to munch on. The trees also provide wind break for all of the animals on the farm. Items MUST be free of all ornaments as these items can cause injury to the animals.  Town Hall will be closed to the public from December 24th - January 2nd. If you have a power/water/sewer emergency during this time, please contact our after hours service at 902-543-3251. Happy Holidays Mahone Bay!  Timeline of the December 7-8 Planned NSPI Power Outage: Nova Scotia Power Commission Incorporated (NSPI) contacted the Town a week before the scheduled power outage to inform us we could communicate the outage with Mahone Bay Electric Utility customers and asked us to put a technician with our utility on standby for Sunday morning (December 8th). The Town then provided notice of the planned outage to our utility customers (as well as customers in Riverport who would also be impacted and with whom we share electric utility staff). When power was restored to the substation, our technician began to energize the circuits of the Town’s local grid (we currently have three circuits: Eastern, Central and Western). The Western and Central circuits were energized in the morning. Issues were immediately identified with the Eastern circuit coming back online, affecting customers on or adjacent to Pine Grove St, as well as some customers on Fauxburg Road. The problem was identified as a blown fuse, an issue which commonly occurs when power is restored following a prolonged power outage in cold conditions. Our technician was able to restore power on the Eastern Circuit around midday, at which time the Town was not aware of further local outages and technicians focused on restoring power to a substantial portion of the Riverport grid which was without power following the restoration of service to Riverport by NSPI. Power was further restored to Riverport customers in the afternoon, by which time calls had come in informing the Town of persisting local outages on the Central circuit, both technicians headed to Mahone Bay to address the problem. All local outages were addressed and power was fully restored to Mahone Bay customers by Sunday evening; a much longer than anticipated day for our technicians! Staff and Council appreciate everyone’s understanding and patience through what was a dark and cold night & day.  With wintry weather heading our way we want to remind everyone that vehicles that impede plowing and winter road maintenance are in violation of the Motor Vehicle Act and may be ticketed and towed.  |
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