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Municipality announces planner’s departure

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.

Celebrate Canada Day at Bowen Island's old-fashioned family picnic

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.

Fire ban in effect for Bowen Island

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.
Spirits soar among commuters as innovations reduce lag-times

Spirits soar among commuters as innovations reduce lag-times

Digital tracking and passenger ferry from Horseshoe Bay help set new records for trips from downtown Vancouver to Snug Cove

Foot passenger overloads leave vehicle line-ups in Snug Cove

On Sunday May 24, Jeff Ballou parked in the ferry line-up near Cates Pharmacy to wait for the 3:15 ferry. When the ferry loaded, Ballou drove on but was shocked to realize that his vehicle was one of the last to be allowed on to the ferry.
Easement on Eaglecliff to improve road safety and pedestrian passage near steep building site

Easement on Eaglecliff to improve road safety and pedestrian passage near steep building site

As Eaglecliff Road winds north from Scarborough, there’s a sharp turn to the left where the trees have been cleared exposing a sharp drop-off which has recently had a driveway installed alongside framing for a new house.

Missing, perhaps stolen: BBQ taken from side of the road

Bowen Island is often the model of a sharing economy so the local RCMP detachment is willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the person who picked up a Weber barbecue from the side of the road.
Municipality commits to first steps in battle against Giant Hogweed

Municipality commits to first steps in battle against Giant Hogweed

Jessie Perry-Cottrell has reason to be nervous of her backyard. The Scarborough resident learned from her downstairs neighbour, Andy Huinink, about a noxious weed growing in her backyard.
Blame it on the deer, drivers say

Blame it on the deer, drivers say

Motor vehicle accidents are up on Bowen Island; RCMP says "usually that’s an indication of people driving home drunk but when we do talk to them they say it was a deer that came in front"

RCMP Forensics find matching suspect profiles in local break and enters, seven years apart

Time cannot hold back justice in finding out who broke into two separate homes on Bowen Island. In 2008, Bowen Island RCMP seized DNA evidence from a break and enter at a residence on Grafton Road.