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The Sechelt and District Chamber of Commerce elected a new board of directors at its AGM last Friday and are looking for six more directors to fill out the remaining positions. Dave Allen returns as a director acting as past president.

For the fourth time in two weeks, the Sunshine Coast RCMP has busted a major marijuana grow operation. After a four-month investigation, the RCMP Street Crew executed a search warrant at a home on Coracle Drive in Sechelt on Sunday. Const.

Five months after the Sunshine Coast Recycling and Processing Society went bankrupt, the Sunshine Coast Regional District can't decide how to replace the recycling service SCRAPS used to provide.

Three generations of men from the same family, who grew their hair out for over a year, donated their locks last week to a Vancouver business that provides wigs for cancer patients.

April Fool's Run registrations have nearly reached the 400 mark, with 343 individual entrants and 50 relay participants signed up as of March 15. Demographics now include one entrant from Quebec, a dozen from Alberta and a handful from California.

A motorcycle tour went horribly wrong for a Hopkins Landing couple on vacation in Mexico last Sunday.

Charges are pending against several suspects following three major drug raids by Sunshine Coast RCMP.

Got a song? Got a rant? Maybe you've written a poem or a short piece of writing that you think is downright brilliant and you've been dying to share with others.

On March 17 at 7 p.m., Anne Miles of Gibsons is scheduled to read her poem, "Under a Swarm of Stars," the winning entry of the Cecelia Lamont Literary Contest, at the White Rock Library.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are investigating another armed robbery, the third on the Coast in the past two and a half months. On Monday, just after 8 p.m., a lone male entered the Family Mart convenience store located at 5530 Wharf Avenue in Sechelt.