Local News

Sylvie Paillard [email protected] Squamish New Directions (SND) did better at the cash box than the ballot box in last fall's municipal elections, thanks in large part to heavy backing from the development community.

Since 1992, local photographer Garry Cotter has been enduring G forces and airsickness while capturing spectacular images from Canadian Forces Snowbirds' cockpits. Now the grueling work has paid off.

WorkSafe B.C. has announced their financial turn around from a $500-million deficit to a $300 million dollar surplus and the local labour committee is calling the recent claims "outrageous" and "shameful.

Jane Emerick [email protected] The Squamish Emergency Program Society (SEPS) needs equipment and they are asking the community to help fundraise for the group that tirelessly volunteers its time to keep Squamish safe.

Squamish voters accounted for more than the 973-vote difference between winner Liberal Blair Wilson and Conservative runner-up John Weston in the Jan. 23 federal election.

Jane Emerick [email protected] She is the girl you see every Sunday morning at the soccer field. She serves you a $1 coffee, makes you a hamburger, or sells you a selection of candy she proportioned in plastic bags.

Steven Hill [email protected] Members of the Squamish Streamkeepers want to see an alternative to a proposed road over the sensitive Meighan Creek system.

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.

Sylvie Paillard [email protected] 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.

Sylvie Paillard [email protected] 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.