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The municipality’s ability to move forward on the building of a new firehall will be left up to community members this coming weekend.

Community jumps in to help, but pet pays the price for being kept off-leash

Jen Loree and her kids drove South from Prince George on Highway 97 on Wednesday July 27 through a thick haze of smoke, shocked by the scene of wreckage left by wildfires.

Mayor Murray Skeels was first to hear the news of the decision by BC Timber Sales to pull Bowen Island out of the proposal for a new Forest Stewardship Plan on Monday morning,.

On Wednesday morning, Tom Johnson, Woodlands Manager with BC Timber Sales told The Undercurrent that BCTS is dropping Bowen Island from the Forest Stewardship Proposal for the Salish Forest Development Unit and cancelling Sunday’s planned open house.

Bowen Island’s newest member of the RCMP, Zhivka Ivanova started work on Bowen last week, which marks the beginning of her first long-term stint working in a small town Ivanova has been with the RCMP for 10 years, starting in Toronto, working in scho

On July 13th, Metro Parks reported graffiti damage to the undercover benches and area at the Bowfest Field in Crippen Park. The damage was caused some time throughout the night.

In the spring of 2014, residents of Gambier Island pulled together to fight the creation of two woodlots comprising 1,326 hectares on the island’s northeast corner.

Last Sunday, a group of roughly thirty Bowen Islanders gathered at Collins Hall to work on formulating an understanding of the legal parameters of a logging on Bowen, and to brainstorm tactics on how to stop it from happening.

Court orders Bowen Island Municipality to issue building permit for a dock on Lot 14