Ferryland’s population just about doubled last month.

“We had a registration process, and we had 572 people registered, and I’d say out of about the 572 of those, I’d say definitely, 300, 350 were definitely come home,” explained Helen Clowe, chair of the Ferryland Come Home Year Committee.

A 2016 Statistics Canada census put the community’s population at 416.

People came from all across Canada, from Halifax to Ontario, Alberta to British Colombia, while still others came up from Boston, New York, Florida, and South Dakota.

McGlamory is the 2019 Georgia Watermelon Queen, and was on tour in the province to promote, naturally, watermelons.

The annual tour is part of the Georgia Watermelon Association’s promotional effort to increase sales of the summer time treat.

Since being crowned Queen in February, McGlamory has travelled through Georgia, the rest of the United States, Toronto and Newfoundland and Labrador.

She was at Alderwood estates in Witless Bay last Wednesday, July 31.

Oftentimes, it’s the work done off the ice that count as much as the work on the ice, and hockey on the Southern Shore would look a lot different without people like Tracey Coady working behind the scenes to make it all happen.

For the first time in 17 years, this Calvert musician is readying herself for her next full-length project.

Jackie Sullivan has, for as long as she can remember, been playing music and performing. She called it a passion, and her deep love of music is evident when she speaks about her career in the industry and what it does for her.

Sullivan can date her first gig back to 1994 at the Ship Pub in St. John’s. Seven-years later, in 2002, she found herself on a provincial tour through an emerging artist program with MusicNL. However, that year holds a bit more significance for Sullivan thanks to the release of her first album, Out of the Rain.

The Cod Moratorium began in 1992 and it resulted in the biggest lay off, by some accounts, in Canadian history. The premises at Kielly's Cove were deserted and no upkeep was performed on the wharf or boat shed for many years.

It was in late 2011 that Gerry Tobin approached the Gaskiers -Point LaHaye Community Council about finding some money and possibly taking on a project to do some necessary repairs to the boatshed and wharf.

Tracey Waddleton says if you read a story from her short story collection Send More Tourists… The Last Ones Were Delicious and aren’t particularly fond of it, that’s okay; just read another one, you’ll probably like that one.

She told the Irish Loop Post that this is because the 25 stories in her debut publication vary so much in tone and subject.

Kay Aylward is no stranger to being on the water.

From growing up near the water in Witless Bay, to rowing in the Royal St. John’s Regatta as an adult, dragon boating seemed a natural next step.

Bay Bulls’ own C&W Industrial Fabrication and Marine Limited has been sub-contracted to build and install an innovative, environmentally aware fish processing production line aboard a new Ocean Choice International (OCI) vessel, the Calvert.

Born and raised in Bay Bulls (in a house full of loud women, according to her author’s bio), April Harvey told the Irish Loop Post that her work is as much for herself as for others.

Laura Morry Williams of Ferryland has lived life on the edge.

That’s according to her memoir On the Edge, which she calls a metaphor for how she feels she has lived her life.