Here's Andrew in the news:
New Municipality of Shelburne administration centre nearing completion | PNI Atlantic News
More here with a 2025 presentation in our Town Hall by Dartmouth Nova Scotia's Andrew Amos:
Sackville UNCensored : Quote of the Week - Chambers in the Town Hall - Fire Hall Project Boomer Dude Says What?
2026 is election year and we should look back over the Andrew Black era with a little bit of truth and a whole lot of clarity. What is the legacy of Andrew Black as Mayor of Tantramar [the first mayor of Tantramar]? Did he manage to get the long awaited Tantramar Skate Park Project built? No.
What he did was jump a firehall project ahead in the queue out of nowhere.. the project will cost millions and there was no public consultation whatsoever on the spending involved in this "extra fire hall" in the Municipality. While it seems like a no-brainer.. spending many millions of dollars unnecessarily is something a wise mayor would have questioned but instead it appears the tail is wagging the dog with a weak leader who has no ethics, no scruples, and no priorities to speak of.
Does the Town really want another four years of this wreckless and no "return on investment" spending?
The Tantramar Skate Park Project has been discussed since 2013 when the skatepark youth presented in town hall in the summer [only then Town Councillors Mike Tower and Bruce Phinney who were councillors back then in the "Town of Sackville" new town hall at that time and would recall that presentation of a passionate group of youth requesting a new concrete skatepark project].
Since that time there has been very little discussion by anyone elected to represent the townsfolk and the reason is because the project has been heavily promoted since 2013 [ as much as possible due to censorship off platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube, amazingly ] by your's truly, blogger and local activist who most wish would just go away and be quiet -- not going to happen folks.
But as Jeremy the Director of Communications has stated "we're not allowing comments on our Youtube channel for Tantramar nor are we using X due to stupid people" it makes for a tricky time advocating.
These staffers and politicians are all very well paid to work for the public but the question remains:
What are they actually working on for the public's benefit?
Having personally spoken with Andrew Black and Matt Pryde about the project and the newer hire Jeffrey Taylor I have no doubt this project is something none of them are capable of. This opinion has been confirmed by long time Town Councillor Bruce Phinney who recently asked for a more inclusive approach to hiring staffers for the Town Hall but was shot down by the entire rest of the "club" on this ask to have a panel for "hiring and firing" staff the way it used to be around here for many years prior.
I will say this much:
I have been very very patient with the
so-called adults in this town management..
"tick-tock" as I said to Ron Kelly Spurles
the Town's WELL PAID feckless Tourism guy with the "UNCEDED" sticker on his laptop [no doubt given to him by his Mount Allison University professor wife the "Dom" in their relationship.. ]
Let's go boys.. cut the shit around here..
GET ON WITH IT..
This one is for the youth, not your friends
in the climate change hysterics' club..
ya feel me?
