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September may seem far away, but it's sign-up time now for kids who will enter school this fall.

If you can't go to them, the Alzheimer Society of B.C. will bring support to you. The Society offers a free tele-support group for local caregivers of a family member with Alzheimer's disease or another dementia who is living at home.

Grade 12 Elphinstone Secondary School student Clare Lyle is spending this weekend in a series of interviews that will decide whether she receives an award of up to $80,000 to pay for her undergraduate studies in Canada.

Residents were asked to keep the issue of how best to pay for Sechelt's new wastewater treatment plant separate from whether they agreed with the project during a referendum information session on Feb. 11.

Sunshine Coast RCMP is seeking assistance from the public in locating Christopher James Neudorf, who is wanted province-wide on three B.C. warrants out of the Sunshine Coast, Prince Rupert and Victoria for 17 outstanding charges.

Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) has launched a campaign to save a proposed BC Timber Sales (BCTS) cutblock at the end of Reed Road, just outside Gibsons.

The operators of a controversial new provincial recycling system have introduced more changes to reduce the cost and paperwork for certain small businesses.

Sunshine Coast RCMP is seeking the public's assistance in identifying a suspect believed responsible for a theft of liquor in Gibsons on Feb. 10. RCMP received a report of a theft of liquor from the Blackfish Pub Liquor Store.

Former Gibsons Mayor Barry Janyk appeared before council's committee of the whole Tuesday to make a case for saving the former municipal hall at Armours Beach.

BC Ferries (BCF) is pitching a refined version of its plan to cut the 6:20 a.m. Sunday round trip from Langdale on Route 3 during the off-peak season.