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  • Volume 1, Issue 10 has arrived!

    Volume 1, Issue 10 has arrived!

    We’ve rounded up a comprehensive list of holiday happenings in Lunenburg County for you to pin up on your fridge. When you put them all together, you realize how lucky we are to have enough creators, artists and makers in our area to fill markets every weekend from now until the wrapping season wraps up.

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  • Famous Town Pies to bring exciting treats to Mahone Bay

    Famous Town Pies to bring exciting treats to Mahone Bay

    South Shore pie-lovers will be delighted to hear Jennah Barry is opening the business of their dreams.

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  • Knot Trivia Leaderboard: Feb. 15, 2023

    Knot Trivia Leaderboard: Feb. 15, 2023

    Feb. 15, 2023 – Winners: Barnacle Editors, Quadrophenia, Yepper

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  • Slice O’ South Shore

    Slice O’ South Shore

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  • Knot Trivia Leaderboard: Jan. 25, 2023 – Feb. 8, 2023

    Knot Trivia Leaderboard: Jan. 25, 2023 – Feb. 8, 2023

    Every Wednesday, Lunenburg’s most knowledgeable and curious gather for Trivia with Joelle Gogol at The Knot Pub, 8-10 p.m. Drop in during these hours, and you can choose to accept […]

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  • Welcome to the Lunenburg Barnacle

    Welcome to the Lunenburg Barnacle

    Welcome! This is it. The first issue of The Lunenburg Barnacle.  You might be new around here and so are we. I can still remember the first time I was […]

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  • “Play On” Making it to the Stage After Three-year Hiatus

    “Play On” Making it to the Stage After Three-year Hiatus

    Three years after her production was cut short by Covid-19, local theatre director Anne Stockdale is picking up right where she left off. In March 2020, Stockdale’s cast of ten […]

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  • Chris’ Pick for February 2023: Moby Dick (2011)

    Chris’ Pick for February 2023: Moby Dick (2011)

    Elizabeth’s Books, in the heart of the Town of Lunenburg’s bookselling district, boasts a rental library of more than five thousand DVDs. Each month, proprietor Chris Webb recommends a classic […]

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  • Lunenburg Pigeons

    Lunenburg Pigeons

    Each month, we turn our eyes to publications from Lunenburg County past to bring you excerpts from days gone by. Selected from Lunenburg Progress: Vol 17, No. 8 – February 21, […]

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  • Anti-LGBTQ+  graffiti in Liverpool may amount to a hate crime, say police

    Anti-LGBTQ+  graffiti in Liverpool may amount to a hate crime, say police

    Police continue to investigate vandalism in Liverpool in January as mischief, but say they are mindful the acts may amount to a hate crime – a position Lunenburg Pride says […]

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  • Lunenburg seeks new name for Cornwallis Street

    Lunenburg seeks new name for Cornwallis Street

    You may soon see E’se’katik Street, Reconciliation Street, or – huh – Queen Street, replace Cornwallis Street on signs across Lunenburg. These are some of the options suggested by the […]

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  • What North Lunenburg County Community Hall Are You?

    What North Lunenburg County Community Hall Are You?

    Which of these flashes of a sign, witnessed roadside on a trip to New Germany, catches your eye? The party’s just getting started! Come on in, open a door. . […]

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