Local News

The Ashlu Valley is quickly getting a reputation as the Sea to Sky corridor's valley of controversy.

In January 1993, the Howe Sound Players were asked to provide the entertainment for the Chamber of Commerce's annual general meeting. Doreen Ramus and I did a skit on what life was like "way back then", the present and a look into the future.

The Brackendale General Store, Post Office and café have long been the heart of Brackendale. But it's people like Joyce Berg that make that heart beat. Berg, 63, retired from the Brackendale Post Office Tuesday (Aug. 31) after nearly 27 years.

In 1961 Ed Cooper and his climbing partner Jim Baldwin made Squamish a famous climbing destination. Now Cooper is lashing out at a proposal to put a gondola on the Stawamus Chief.

Bringing Wal-Mart to town is easy. Preventing the world's largest retailer from breaking ground is a much more difficult task. Despite the challenge, some communities have successfully blocked the corporation.

Coun. Corinne Lonsdale, who led the charge to re-open Interfor's Squamish Lumber mill five years ago, says Squamish council and the Economic Development Officer need to do more to attract industrial jobs.

A man who lived to climb will be remembered this week on a rock his name will be forever attached to. Daryl Hatten was a climbing legend who posted many first ascents of the Stawamus Chief. He lost his life Aug.

Interfor investigating purchase offers for waterfront land John French Chief Staff Writer International Forest Products (Interfor) gave up this week on its Squamish sawmill.

The new commander of the Squamish RCMP won't be moving to town - he already lives here. S/Sgt. Mark Hennigar accepted a lateral transfer from the RCMP's North Vancouver office and is going to be in charge of the Squamish detachment later this month.

It was a wet and slippery weekend, but the dogs didn't seem to mind one bit.