By ROY WOOD Osoyoos council has moved a step closer to allowing a 47-unit townhouse development on the shore of Peanut Pond, despite concerns from some residents and one councillor about potential traffic problems. The proposed site sits immediately northeast of Highway 3 and is bounded by the Super 8 Motel, Peanut Pond and […]

1200 items of food donated by students at Oliver Elementary School. This project organized by one class of grade 4’s and one class of grade 7. Both the grades of 3 and 5 donated the most to the food drive. All picked up Monday by the Knight of Columbus **** 2nd Annual Food Drive at […]

By ROY WOOD Two things became clear during a wide-ranging discussion on Osoyoos business licence fees this morning: they are nearly all going up, some quite substantially; and cannabis retailing will likely be the most expensive. Debate centred on a two-pronged report from planning director Gina MacKay, which outlined proposals to move to a “cost […]

By ROY WOOD   MLA Linda Larson remains optimistic about the future of the emergency room (ER) at the South Okanagan General Hospital (SOGH), suggesting the health authority wouldn’t be putting money into a service it is planning to close. “There is money on the table for the emergency room,” the member for Boundary Similkameen […]

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Devils Tower is a laccolithic butte composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Mountains in northeastern Wyoming. It rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet above sea level. The 1977 movie ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ used the formation as […]

  We are in the final stretch racing toward the end of the year.  So many things going on.  We watch the world change on a daily basis, corrupt politics, pollution of the seas, migrants who are seeking shelter from tyranny.  I could go on but the local things keep interrupting. The one question I […]