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Parents and students reacted almost instantly last week following a letter sent out by Bowen Island Community School (BICS) principal Scott Slater stating that this year would be the last for the Outside 45 program offered to grades six and seven stu

Bowen Island Municipal Council is asking for feedback from Bowen Island residents and property owners to help inform development of its strategic plan for 2018.

Local islander Kate Coffey is currently in Washington DC on an all-expenses paid trip, thanks to Coffey’s expert volunteer work in Sri Lanka with organizations Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA) and Land O’Lakes International Development.

Although they have yet to make the formal announcement, BC Ferries Manager of Public Affairs, Darin Guenette, has confirmed that the engagement process for a $250 million overhaul of the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal will launch in January.

Bowen children were twice lucky last weekend as Santa Claus attended not one, but two island events.

Islanders doubt Davies Orchard Plan

According to Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife Club President Tim Pardee 10 coho salmon have been spotted swimming into Bowen’s lagoon in the past week.

Every face that whisks by brings a memory, says Carol Fancy. At the bank she sees adults who she knew as babies and small children. At the Village Baker she sits in “Carol Cram’s chair,” and then she recalls her 77th birthday, on November 10.

Two weeks following the opening of the library’s upper level to create a temporary extreme weather shelter for Bowen’s homeless, a group calling itself the Bowen Emergency Shelter Team (BEST) is hoping that the board of Collins Hall will offer the sp

Activist's last wish: Protection of the Salish Sea a World Heritage Site