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James Hill and Anne Davison’s album True Love Don’t Weep has been nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award. THE FIFTH ANNUAL Canadian Folk Music Awards gala takes place in Ottawa on Saturday, and Nova Scotia will be well represented. Besides top ...

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named music legend Paul McCartney as the recipient of the third Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. An all-star tribute concert is planned for spring 2010. "As a great admirer of the ...

Ross Pentz of the Department of Natural Resources watches as this year's Christmas tree is loaded onto a flatbed truck in preparation for its trip to Boston in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. The tree is Nova Scotia's ...

of Third Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named music legend Paul McCartney as the recipient of the third Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. An all-star tribute ...

William Wilberforce has become the poster boy for the anti-slavery movement, with 20,000 people attending a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of his death, his house turned into a museum and his statue in Westminster Abbey. Clarkson was ...

Tickets have already been distributed by lottery to nearly 10,000 people, but the tree ... In Boston, Nova Scotia sends a Christmas tree every year as thanks for disaster aid from Massachusetts following the Halifax Explosion in 1917.

Tickets have already been distributed by lottery to nearly 10,000 people, but the tree stays lit through Jan. 1 with free performances nightly ... Va., hosts the Winter Festival of Lights, Nov. 13-Jan. 3. Oglebay says it is one of the nation's ...

The National Christmas Tree is scheduled to be lit on Dec. 3. Details of this year's ceremony have not been released yet, but traditionally the president and his family preside. Tickets have already been distributed by lottery to nearly 10,000 people ...

Hi, Hometown News readers. Man charged with battery after slapping a sex offender A New Smyrna area man was charged with battery on an elderly person after deputies said he slapped the victim for being a sex offender. Investigators said Chad Bunfill ...

The National Lottery has published a list of 50 "unsung heroes" to mark its 15th birthday. So why does history remember some figures but forget others? Can a man who has appeared on the £20 note really be classed as an "unsung" hero? Plenty of ...