Council Approves 2024-25 Water and General Capital Budget
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Amherst Town Council approved a Water and General Capital budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year of just over $4.9 million when it met on Monday night, March 25, 2024.
French Toast Fest Returns to Amherst
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What do you get when your town has an egg factory, a bread factory, and is surrounded by maple sugar woods? An annual French toast festival, of course. French Toast Fest is back for its sixth year from March 18-24, with 11 amazing Amherst restaurants taking part.
Each restaurant has created its own unique French toast dish to offer up, including raisin bread French toast with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce; French toast sausage rolls; French toast muffins topped with maple cream cheese and maple syrup drizzle, plus salted maple lattés; French Toast churros; Elvis French toast (including peanut butter, bananas, and bacon); apple cinnamon French toast; maple cheesecake topped with French toast crunch and maple syrup; and, Nutella-stuffed French toast with strawberries.
The Devils Halo Cheesecakes and Milkshakes Grows in Amherst
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When Melanie Cyr was growing up in Memramcook, NB, she often travelled with her mother to Amherst so they could take care of shopping for the family.
“My mom lives in Irishtown now,” Melanie said. “She still comes to Amherst to shop, and she’s always happy when she comes home. Because of her, when I had my kids, we always came here, and now my kids know their way around Amherst.”
A few years ago, Melanie’s daughter Danica was in university and wanted to start a small side business to generate some income. She started out creating cupcakes, but it wasn’t quite the right fit. Melanie explained that it’s long been their family tradition to bring cheesecake whenever they’re invited to a holiday supper or special event. So, after a lot of experimentation and combining several recipes, she and Danica developed a new product: cheesecake on a stick.
This N.S. town turns vacant lot into an outdoor skating rink
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Check out the recent CBC story on our outdoor rink.
Amherst Town Council Adopts Strategic Priorities for 2024
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In support of our Mission to provide quality leadership, services, opportunities and resources for the benefit of our citizens, Amherst Town Council recently adopted a set of 2024 Strategic Priorities that will support the town’s growth and development in a fair, equitable and transparent manner.
“Town staff, our Mayor and Councillors meet every year and hold a strategic priority planning day, where we review the previous year’s areas of focus and determine the best way to move our organization forward,” said Jason MacDonald, CAO of the Town of Amherst. “We focus on developing four main priorities, but they don’t change annually just for the sake of changing; this year, we changed only one because, although we’ve made great progress across the board, our work in three of our categories is ongoing.”
Update on Amherst's Community Hub Supporting Homeless People
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Gamble to support people experiencing homelessness pays off for town of Amherst
A community hub, including an emergency shelter, with regular meals and six supportive housing units is set to open in Amherst, N.S. early next month. It was a project that was discussed for years but made a reality when the town’s council ponied up $100,000 to create a new position.
This is an excerpt from a story by CHMA.
Amherst’s Downtown Outdoor Rink Ready for Another Season of Fun
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It’s that time of year again! Weather permitting, Amherst’s outdoor skating rink at the corner of Victoria Street East and Maple Street is ready for another season of open-air recreation and fun.
