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An outstanding environmentalist was honoured with the John Hind-Smith Environmental Award during the May 15 Friends of the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association (SCCA) annual social at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.

Prolific offender Trey Watters was sentenced May 9 to 120 days jail time after pleading guilty to numerous charges, including break and enter, mischief and possession of a controlled substance.

Elementary school counsellors are seeing more children with anxietyissues on the Coast, and between four and 4.5 per cent oflocal students are currently identified as having a "behaviour that interferes with learning.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) recently released its zero-waste guide for event planners. The guide details a number of strategies event planners of all types can consider before hosting people for a get-together.

Sechelt could be without its arena during the start of the next hockey season, according to the Sunshine Coast Regional District's (SCRD) recreation manager.

Sechelt council gave first and second reading May 16 to a proposed bylaw to allow wineries on parcels of land that span two hectares or more and are designated RR-1 or RR-2.

Sechelt council voted Wednesday night to once again give second and third reading to bylaw amendments that would allow Stockwell Enterprises to set up a concrete batch plant on their gravel extraction site in East Porpoise Bay.

With plane tickets to China in hand this week, the Johnstones are excited for what's ahead and overwhelmed with gratitude for the community that made it possible.

The Labour Relations Board (LRB) has set today (Friday) as the tentative start date for a hearing about whether or not the B.C. teachers' withdrawal of extracurricular activities is legal. The teachers' employer, the B.C.

With phase one of the St. Mary's Hospital expansion project now roughly 75 per cent complete, anticipation for the October move-in date has been building - just like expectations of the initial challenges it could create.