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The Victoria Day long weekend was busier on the ferries than the Easter long weekend, but there seemed to be less anxiety about visitors to the Sunshine Coast.

Dear Fellow Sunshine Coast Residents: We hope you all enjoyed the glorious long weekend weather! Days like these make it hard to imagine that we are in the middle of a global pandemic, even as our lives have been impacted in so many ways.

Community Forest hopes evidence from trail cameras will lead to charges

Results from an agricultural land use survey conducted in 2019 show there’s lots of potential for farming on the Sunshine Coast.

After posting a loss in 2019, the Sunshine Coast Community Forest and its operating company Sechelt Community Projects Inc. (SCPI) will not be issuing an extraordinary dividend this year.

Efforts are underway to install a 51-metre cell tower and wireless communications facility that will provide cell phone and Internet service to Skookumchuck Narrows and the Egmont waterfront.

Premier non-committal on UBCM call for expanded deferral program

Plans are in the works for both the Gibsons and Sechelt libraries to launch a curbside program for books and other materials.

Brad Copping (left), general sales manager of South Coast Ford, delivered a shipment of face shields to the Sechelt Hospital Foundation, represented by development administrator Tracey Beyrouty, on May 8.

Sechelt council has approved two last-minute additions to the district’s capital spending plan to take advantage of work that’s already underway. The projects were presented to council May 6, the same night the 2020 budget was presented.