Meadowvale blaze

Flames tore through a house in Meadowvale early yesterday morning.

The call came in just before midnight to the house on Torbrook Road after a fire appeared to have started in a shed at the back of the house.  The cause is under investigation.  The vacant house is a write-off, but nobody was hurt.

NS election rhetoric

On the campaign trail, Premier Stephen McNeil was hammering away at school boards voting themselves a 24% raise recently.  He said he would launch a full review of the administrations of school boards if re-elected.

NDP leader Gary Burrill predicts the messy way McNeil handled the teachers’ contract dispute will cost him votes on election day.

The PCs accused the other two of playing politics with education instead of solving problems in the classrooms.