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Officials are hoping work can begin on a new amphitheatre in Halfmoon Bay's Connor Park this spring.

Legally blind white cane advocate Sue Boman started her journey across Canada in Sechelt on March 23.

The official community plan and zoning amendment bylaws that were passed to allow Target Marine Hatcheries to harvest sturgeon for caviar onsite will be back before council for consideration of first reading April 4.

Campaign costs of trustees vying for a seat on the School District No. 46 board were as little as $120.96 and as much as $2,727.28 Of the elected trustees, board chair Silas White spent the most at $2,727.28.

Editor's note: CORRECTION TO STORYDue to an error in reading the financial disclosure statements for Sechelt Mayor John Henderson, the wrong donation amount was credited to Gina Stockwell. Her donation to the campaign was $170.

The provincial government appointed Dr. Charles Jago to mediate the teacher contract talks this week, with Jago likening the job to a kind of "mission impossible.

Nearly a year after a dog was caught in a leg-hold trap in Sechelt, the Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals is imploring council to finalize a bylaw that would ban the use of body-gripping traps in the District.

Campaign financial disclosure statements were recently released by the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD).

The campaign organization For A Better Sechelt (FABS) had a budget of $46,201.98 to get their message across during the 2011 municipal election more than all the mayoralty candidates combined spent in Sechelt.

The numbers are in, and Gibsons Mayor Wayne Rowe raised more than $33,200 on his path to defeat incumbent Barry Janyk, who clocked just less than $6,500. Rowe left his rivals in the dust, raising five times more than the incumbent mayor.