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Soon after the Sea Cavalcade fireworks subsided Sunday night, a vehicle was set ablaze just north of Armours Beach in the 700 block of Marine Drive in Gibsons.

Save for changes to council's expenses and remunerations, the District of Sechelt's draft 2012 annual report should stay the same until council adopts it in early August.

Developer David Sangara said the trees he cut down on the lower half of his property along Highway 101 in Sechelt were smaller than 60 centimetres wide and therefore allowed to go, although an arbourist's report to that effect was never submitted to

Gibsons council received a briefing report on the George Hotel application at its July 23 committee of the whole meeting.

Plans are afoot to extend the Ignite program for three years and develop it into a self-sustaining incubator for social entrepreneurs on the Sunshine Coast.

The District of Sechelt is focused on attracting new business to the municipality in 2013, so council is setting up Sechelt Innovations Ltd. (SIL) to try to make that happen.

Two Sunshine Coast environmental groups want B.C. Timber Sales (BCTS) to scrap plans to auction 68 hectares of old-growth forest in Dakota Bowl on Mount Elphinstone.

A sinkhole that appeared on Highway 101 at Ocean Avenue in Sechelt on July 20 has been filled and patched, and the cause is being investigated.

Need a car to make a quick trip up the Coast for an appointment or meeting and don't have access to one? A new car sharing program set to launch on the Coast could be the solution to your problem.

A 4,000-year-old fishing village was unearthed this month up Sechelt Inlet, where archeologists and university students have been working with nine Sechelt Nation youth to sift through their people's past.