Land Matters 6431 Okanagan Street – Public Hearing and final adoption of a zoning change – church building – former St. John’s Lutheran –  from Institutional Zoning to RS1 – to allow conversion to residential housing. Carried 291 Fairview Road – assignment of lease – Town owns parts of the parking lot at Remedy Rx […]

Civic voter turnout pathetic, says Rhodes Voter turnout in Osoyoos civic elections is “pathetic” and “shameful,”  Councillor CJ Rhodes said this afternoon in an impassioned plea for residents to get out and vote this Saturday. Citing a decline that has seen turnout in the town spiral down over the past decade and a half from […]

The national average price for a home sold in September was just under $487,000, up 0.2 per cent compared with a year ago. Excluding the Greater Toronto Area and Greater Vancouver Area, the average price was just over $383,000. Source: Canadian Real Estate Association Forum is now open to everyone including candidates for election What […]

Two men who own adjacent farms north east of Oliver’s town centre are seeking compensation over lost income which they say the province of BC replaced a superior irrigation water system (license to take water) with one that is not efficient or effective. Gordon Forbes and Art Dias said their water intake systems on the […]

Small turnout Sunday for celebrating the salmon event “There should be lots of opportunity to view spawning Sockeye salmon this year,” says Lee McFadyen who works with the Okanagan River Restoration Initiative. “153,632 sockeye have passed through the Fish Passage Center at Wells Dam in Washington State. In 2017 – 42,299 sockeye were recorded at […]