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Many Elphinstone residents will have to drive, bus or ride more than 10 kilometres in order to vote in Tuesday's federal election.

Despite the breakdown in negotiations with Coastal Link Ferries (CLF), the Gibsons Landing Harbour Authority (GLHA) said they remain open to proposals for a passenger ferry service to run out of the government wharf.

Before local conservation officers drove the trailer trap off a Wilson Creek property on Tuesday morning, the mature black bear inside it seemed to have a sense of what lay in store.

Incumbent MP Blair Wilson out-charmed rival candidates at Tuesday night's (Sept. 30) all-candidates meeting in front of more than 250 spectators at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.

There is one man's name on the award, but he said it represents an entire team. Fire Chief Bill Higgs of Sechelt was selected Volun-teer Fire Chief of the Year in Whitehorse Sept. 24.

Would you know what to expect when 9-1-1 is dialed and the ambulance arrives? What to do if someone was poisoned? What items to keep in an emergency kit in case of a disaster? The students at Roberts Creek Elementary School now have the answers to th

A community-based crime reduction strategy, targeting drug use and increased early intervention, emerged as one of the best ways to build a safer community at a day-long conference held at the Seaside Centre on Monday.

A bylaw was adopted at council Wednesday night that will make a proposed processing plant possible in Tuwanek.

The civic leadership program at Capilano University is hosting a presentation on municipal processes on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m. in Room 102 at the Sunshine Coast campus.

A proposal to merge some properties on the eastern fringe of Elphinstone into the Town of Gibsons will wait until after the Nov. 15 municipal elections before gaining any traction, said staff for the Town.