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Islanders hear from cetacean sightings network

Last Sunday, Bowen Islanders floated their questions on skunks, rats and other critters by pest control expert Carl Nielsen at Collins Hall. Skunks, and how to deal with them, dominated a good part of the conversation.

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When the Bowen Island Legion started up in the 1940s, only three cottages made up its surrounding neighbourhood. Today, the area is one of Bowen’s most densely populated neighbourhoods.

The Islands Trust has drafted a $7.86 million budget for the coming year and will begin its public consultation on it this weekend with an online survey.

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Homeless Bowen Island residents will soon be able to find shelter in extreme weather conditions.

Plans to create a system of business licensing on Bowen Island were started back in 2000s, Maureen Nicholson told attendees at the Bowen Business Summit on Tuesday evening, but never got rolling.

At a special meeting of council, clean-energy policy advocate and Bowen Island resident James Glave said that the municipality can use the province’s new BC Energy Step Code to ensure that all homes built on Bowen Island will be more comfortable, mor

At 3am on Tuesday morning, Jon McNeil couldn’t sleep. Sitting on the couch, he looked at his phone and saw a coast-wide tsunami warning and immediately woke up his wife, Alex.