The Town of Antigonish was busy improving infrastructure in 2025.
Mayor Sean Cameron shares with us which projects he’s most proud of.
“Certainly, the highlights are fixing the sewer and finding another source of water. Those are the two big projects that most members running for council ran on. Roads are another one,” he says.
“Without infrastructure, you can’t support housing. You can’t support business expansion. You can’t support any of those things. So, we’re hoping if we build it, they will come.”
The new underground water source could add 50 per cent more water to the water treatment plant’s existing source from James River.
This means residents won’t have to worry as badly about droughts or losing fire protection, if the river runs dry, according to Cameron.
The Town is also working on the new aeration and the new head wall gear for the sewer plant to help ensure that the citizens are not subjected to the foul odours as they have for the last two summers.
Cameron also expressed the Town is also very fortunate to have their own electric utility.
It supplements power generated from their wind farm and solar panels, which saves residents 10 to 17 per cent on their power bills.
When asked what he would have changed this year, Cameron expressed how the traffic construction issues were unexpected, including the affects it had on commercial businesses and volunteer firefighters.
“It was one of these necessary evils. Should we have contained it to one project? In hindsight, yes, that would been the advisable thing,” shared Cameron.
“But in September, when council made this motion to proceed [with] the information we had, we didn’t foresee any of these pitfalls that we were faced with.”
He says they were advised that the Church Street roundabout would have been completed in October and it’s still not operational.
“[When] you lose one of your main arteries, it’s difficult to compensate in a small town,” said Cameron.
Having the roundabout finished on time would have alleviated a lot of the traffic congestion that piled up on St. Andrew Street and West Street, says the mayor.
