Annual Celebration Recognizes Amherst’s Many Dedicated Volunteers
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Volunteers go above and beyond the regular requirements and give back to their communities in countless ways. This is the case across the country, but in Amherst, it feels as if we are made of people who hold our community even closer to their hearts.
Paving and Sidewalk Projects – 2024-2025 General Capital Budget
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Streets and sidewalks make up a critical part of our Town’s surface-level infrastructure and are depended upon every day by our citizens and visitors alike. This is why $1,160,100 – or, approximately 24% of the 2024-2025 General Capital Budget spending – is assigned to various street paving and sidewalk improvement projects.
Street conditions are evaluated and rated using a scale from 1-10 – with 1 as a failing grade, and 9-10 considered excellent. A number of streets in Amherst were identified as being in poor to fair condition (ratings of 4-5) and in need of rehabilitation. After considering the age of infrastructure running under this group of streets, the areas have been deemed suitable for paving with an asphalt overlay, which means applying a new asphalt layer over the existing asphalt surface.
Fire and Police Department – 2024-2025 Capital Budget
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Every year before the end of March, the Town of Amherst staff presents Council with the proposed Water and General Capital Operating Budgets. This is how spending is planned across every department for each fiscal year, allowing for the continued maintenance of resources, upgrading critical infrastructure, and delivering the services that citizens depend on.
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.
