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After spending 10 years in New Zealand working on the Lord of the Rings Trilogy as a motion capture director and fight choreographer, Carrie Thiel decided to trade the fictional setting of Middle-earth for a more contemporary and realistic world ofBo

Bowen Island Municipality (BIM) is looking for a sign. In a bid to make the island more accessible to visitors, councillors have ordered a review of all the redundant and unfriendly signage dotting the streets. Coun.

The film industry is heating up in B.C. and many islanders who work on crew or act are again getting jobs in their chosen field.

Many locals celebrate the return of orcas and herring to Howe Sound and advocacy groups work hard to improve salmon stocks, says Dave Brown, vice chair of the Squamish to Lillooet Sportfish Advisory Committee, but he believes that the government's la

Small rural municipalities in British Columbia that are similar to Bowen Island in size benefit from gas tax funds, says Kristen Watson, manager of finance for the Bowen Island Municipality (BIM).

The van is called the "Grey Whale" and is waiting to bring customers to the Bowen Island Pub and/or back home safely, says Glen Cormier, the pub's co-owner and operator, who is launching the service on Friday, September 20.

Last week, the Caring Circle Resource Centre's office moved from Village Square into the heritage cottage next to the library. Since it opened in its previous location in February, about 180 people have visited the premises.

For the last few months, the Bowen Island Municipality (BIM) has been working to update bylaws that relate to private moorage, partly in response to the construction of large docks at Cape Roger Curtis.

It doesn't take long for a pair of cats to produce a litter if they are "intact," says Iris Carr, founding member of the Coast Animal Welfare and Education Society (CAWES).

If you've driven across the island on a rainy fall night you may be all too familiar with the last minute realization that what you thought was a leaf blowing across your lane is actually a frog, or more likely in most cases, was a frog.