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On Wednesday morning, community leaders attending the Union of BC Municipality’s (UBCM) annual convention in Whistler voted unanimously in support of a resolution requesting the province of British Columbia to reverse changes made to ferry services a

Back in May, when council rejected a request for $10,000 to study the feasibility of using the Gore Composting method to process Bowen’s domestic organic waste-on island, the Knick Knack Nook stepped in with funding.

The economic impact of the ferry system stretches well beyond impacts to coastal communities and, in an era of rising fares and increasingly limited services, those impacts come at a high price.

According to the statistics released by the Bowen Island Visitor’s Centre, the total number of visitors greeted by staff there this summer was 5,388.

The sun shone for Bowen’s teachers picketing outside the Bowen Island Community School grounds on Tuesday morning, but the greater gift for them was the morning’s news that the BC Teachers Federation and the provincial government had reached a tentat

Former municipal councilors Wolfgang Duntz and Daron Jennings took the floor at this week’s council meeting to pitch two large developments that they say are connected through the demographic necessities of Bowen Island.

A vote by BC teacher’s to drop a contract clause about class size and composition and leave the dispute with the provincial government in the hands of a third party will not mean an end to the strike, whateer the outcome.

Tom Matzen says he’s been pitching the idea of using two lanes in the Lower Cove to just about everyone since he first heard the idea, and this week, he pitched it to council.

“I was eating lunch and heard a horrible thud,” says Barbara Colquhoun, describing the moments before she discovered that a bird had flown into the glass window leading to her back deck in Sealeigh Park last Tuesday (August 26).

The water bottles, sweatshirts, stray shoes, and countless other odds and ends that were gathered into a lost and found pile are a tribute to a summer full of action and laughter at the grounds of the Bowen Island Community School.