This Place Matters contest entry to raise awareness of Chapel Point Battery

The Sydney Mines Tourism Development Society wants your help in an online contest to raise money and awareness about Chapel Point Battery.

They have entered the site under the name Guardian of the Gulf in the National Trust for Canada online competition called This Place Matters. This is one of 16 projects across the country vying for a $60,000 prize. A Truro project is way out in front but Sydney Mines is hoping for the $30,000 regional prize.

Bail hearing on sex charges

A Sydney Mines man is due in court today for a bail hearing on sex offences.

30 year old Richard Billy Rice is charged with three counts of sexual assault and three of sexual interference involving a person under 16. The offences are alleged to have occurred between August 2011 and June 2016.