Local News

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.

After 29 years with Race and Company, local attorney Douglas Race said he had a life-changing revelation: he could be replaced. Looking at a strong lineup of lawyers in the firm, he spotted his chance to make a graceful exit.

An opposition group to Garibaldi at Squamish is planning to give the project a unified blast with a petition against the proposed ski resort.

The glossy pages of Squamish's celebrated home-grown visitor magazine will no longer grace shelves in tourist information centres across the province.

A vehicle accident caused by a deer crossing Highway 99 last Thursday (Nov. 22) left the vehicle occupants uninjured, but killed the animal. And the incident has renewed cries for more animal passageways along the built highway.

Money poured out of residents' pockets at the fundraising Tribute to LaVerne Kindree on Saturday night (Nov. 24).

The Squamish Lillooet Regional District's (SLRD) board on Monday (Nov. 27) passed first reading of a bylaw that would establish a regional transit service for Lillooet to Squamish, with potential for expansion.