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62% vote in favour of new tax for expanded transportation services in Metro Vancouver

On Tuesday of last week, the municipality’s parks and environment manager, joined by the new park operations and Snug Cove maintenance lead Mark Edmonds, who has a horticulture background, headed to the Scarborough neighbourhood to inspect a number o

A call by mayor Murray Skeels to the executive director of the Metro Vancouver Mayor’s Council, Mike Buda, brought good news for Peter King and the people who ride his bus: TransLink has approved the contract that will allow the service to continue o

The owner of lot 17 at the Cape on Bowen, Shu Lin Dong, filed a petition against the Municipality of Bowen Island on June 23 in the Supreme Court of British Columbia asking for a declaration by the courts that Bylaw No.

On July 6, 2015, His Holiness The Dalai Lama celebrates his 80th birthday. On July 5, 2015, quite brazenly, His Fartness The Cartoonist celebrates his 80th birthday.

Rotary hears pitch on Gigabit for Bowen idea

Of the 21 incidents of “dog aggression” that the municipality’s senior bylaw officer, Bonny Brokenshire, reported to have occurred between the beginning of 2014 and April, 30 percent of those occurred in Snug Cove.

In a press release sent out on the afternoon of Tuesday June 23, BIM announced that planner Cari St. Pierre is no longer a municipal employee. Hired at towards the end of the summer in 2014, St.

Canada Day is a communal celebration of everything we love about this country. And on Bowen Island, that sense of being part of one big happy family is almost palpable.

The province’s Wildfire Management Branch is still allowing campfires in Coastal British Columbia, but Bowen Island’s Fire Chief Ian Thompson has banned all open fires on Bowen Island.