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Brackendale addictions facility creates fear Sylvie Paillard spaillard@squamishchief.

Sylvie Paillard [email protected] B.C. Environment Minister Barry Penner visited the Tenderfoot Hatchery in Squamish Monday (March 6) to deliver good news about the progression of Cheakamus River recovery.

Sylvie Paillard [email protected] Squamish has its work cut out to be prepared for 2010, according to Casey Dorin, Capilano College Squamish Campus dean and a member of the Chamber of Commerce 2010 committee.

A Squamish man and two other B.C. men who pleaded guilty to charges related to the smuggling of marijuana across the U.S. border have had their sentencing hearing set over until April 14.

Steven Hill [email protected] A grant-in-aid request from the Howe Sound Ladies Fastpitch league was turned down Tuesday (March 7) by council members.The request of $629.

David Burke Whistler Question A Whistler-based environmental group is seeking municipal funding for a study that the group's leaders hope will help provide unbiased information on the impacts of wide-scale independent power project (IPP) development

Jane Emerick Special to The Chief A tenant renting a house from the BC Mining Museum will soon be looking for a new place to live. The B.C.

Heidi VanLith Special to The Chief When asked to create an edible musical instrument that could play "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" in the key of G, with a C note at precisely 256 hertz, the Howe Sound Secondary physics students rose to the challenge

Allan Bishop Special to the Chief The Squamish Public Library has teamed up with the Health Unit to promote BC's Books for Babies initiative.

Denise Imbeau Special to the Chief Prior to experiencing Torino and the 2006 Winter Olympics I had no concept of what the Olympics would mean for Squamish, or really what the Olympics were all about.