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Environmentalists want Meighan route changed

Steven Hill shill@squamishchief.com Members of the Squamish Streamkeepers want to see an alternative to a proposed road over the sensitive Meighan Creek system.

Squamish transit service ends

David Burke Whistler Question The four-month Squamish-Whistler transit pilot project came to an end last week, but officials in both communities are hopeful that a permanent service will be established in the future, perhaps by this fall.

Council looks at Brohm for community forest

Sylvie Paillard spaillard@squamishchief.com The District of Squamish took another step toward entering the logging business last week. The Brohm Lake Interpretive Forest appears to be winning the race to become Squamish's first community forest.

CN off the rails again, this time in the Estuary

Sylvie Paillard spaillard@squamishchief.com A CN Rail train car carrying pulp derailed in the Squamish estuary at 10:45 p.m. Sunday (April 23) on its way to Squamish Terminals industrial port.

Residential, heavy industry to see property tax hikes

Sylvie Paillard spaillard@squamishcheif.com Council for the District of Squamish completed budget deliberations Tuesday (April 25). They went into the final day of deliberations with arguably the most vocal councillor, Coun.

Our man in Afghanistan

Squamish Chief readers may remember Cpl. Douglas Morgan from his rotation in Bosnia and from his assistance to a person going into a diabetic coma on Government Road when everyone was driving around him.

Woodsman, woodsman, spare this tree

Sylvie Paillard spaillard@squamishchief.com An old growth red cedar is still standing in Dentville after a confrontation between concerned neighbours and the District of Squamish.

Controversy brews as Oceanfront Corp. picks developer

Sylvie Paillard spaillard@squamishchief.

This week, show teens you care

Jane Emerick jemerick@squamishchief.

Still going strong

At the April 11 meeting of the Select Committee on Seniors' Issues, copies of the floor plan of the 10,000 square foot Seniors' Centre that is to be incorporated into Solterra's multifaceted Eaglewind development on Block R in downtown Squamish were
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