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With Gibsons' aquifer-mapping project due to be complete next month, the Town is pondering a community outreach program that could include self-guided aquifer tours. Reporting to council's committee of the whole on Feb.

Sechelt councillors were in favour of a proposal for a bicycle skills park in downtown Sechelt during their committee of the whole meeting Feb. 13.

School District No. 46 (SD46) saw its first student trustee sworn in on Nov. 12. Maya Treuheit took her oath of office and her seat at the school board table after being welcomed by all the trustees at Tuesday night's regular board meeting.

Douglas & McIntyre, the original imprint of British Columbia's long-time flagship book publisher, will live to see another day, thanks to a new alliance with Madeira Park's Harbour Publishing. In a Feb.

Some parents of students at Roberts Creek Elementary School are concerned about potential health hazards of renovations slated to start Feb. 18, but School District No. 46 (SD46) assures student safety is a top priority.

Sechelt firefighters had to use their hazardous material (hazmat) response training to decontaminate a person reportedly overcome by chemical fumes at about 3:30 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 4.

The Sunshine Coast will be part of a nation-wide protest next Thursday against the federal government's proposed new medical marijuana regulations.

The aim of almost quadrupling transit ridership on the Sunshine Coast over the next 25 years "is ambitious and will require considerable strategic action," BC Transit said in a report updating the region's transit future plan.

School District No. 46 (SD46) board chair Silas White has been named vice chair of the B.C. Public School Employers' Association (BCPSEA) and is sitting at the bargaining table with teachers this week.

Gibsons council's newly minted strategic plan promises to focus the Town's energies on its public assets and economic future, listing 26 separate projects - including a series of waterfront upgrades -as specific goals for the next two years.