By ROY WOOD A few months from now Osoyoos residents will likely be able to combine a trip to the grocery store with an oil change, a car wash and a big bucket of deep-fried chicken parts, all at the same mall. Town council today approved a combination drive-through car wash and oil change operation […]

By ROY WOOD Advocates for the Osoyoos Airport expansion would be happy if the future of the facility became an issue in next month’s civic election, but insist the timing of Tuesday’s presentation to town council was not driven by political strategy. Osoyoos Airport Development Society (OADS) president Glen Harris appeared before a council committee […]

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For the second time in the history of his incarceration, convicted killer Michael Douglas Sheets, 48, has escaped from prison. Sheets was not accounted for during a routine inmate check on Saturday evening at Mission Institute minimum-security prison in the Lower Mainland. He firebombed a home in Calgary in 2004, killing a five-year-old boy and […]

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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE Dates have been set for auditions for SOAP Theatre’s fall production of It’s A Wonderful Life – A Live Radio Play. Director Trevor Leigh will be looking for an ensemble cast of three males and two females that will bring a few dozen characters to the stage in early December. Open […]