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Squamish marked New Year's Day in a sad way with the destruction of the first bear of the year. The bear, an immature male black bear, was destroyed Tuesday (Jan.

The Squamish Scouts are offering Christmas tree chipping services at the Garden Centre on Mamquam road tomorrow (Jan. 5) Your donations to the Squamish Food Bank of non-perishable food items would be, as always, very much appreciated as well.

Registrants from as far away as the U.K., Yukon Territory, Virginia, Oregon, Ontario, Manitoba, Hawaii, and California raced for the 800 available spots for this year's North Shore Credit Union Test of Metal selling it out by 8:01 p.m.

What do you anticipate for 2008? I think there are going to be a lot of things continuing on from what we started three, four, five years ago, last year. There's a lot of construction already taking place in the community.

As Coun. Mike Jenson moves into the New Year, he is planning to leave plastic bags and his alarm clock behind him - but not his career in municipal politics. After 18 of working for Squamish Savings, he has opted for retirement.

Squamish residents will be receiving their annual property assessment notices in the mail from BC Assessment this month - and odds are good it'll be significantly higher than last year's.

A Garibaldi Estates landmark that served both as a symbol of the Olympics and one man's dedication to his wife was knocked down by vandals over the holidays. Last Thursday (Dec.

The wheels of the bus go round and round at a painfully slow rate in Squamish.With only three active busses in town there is an average lag of 45 minutes to an hour between rides.

On Saturday, Nov. 3, an enormous brown tabby checked into the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). The chubby cat, now dubbed B. Gee for "big guy" had turned up in a local resident's backyard.

A devastated family has turned heartbreak into a helping hand through a South African school-feeding program known as the SAM Project.