Large format picture submitted by Robert and Caroline 7:45 am* dispatch to end of River Road – property west of Okanagan River (OIB) report of black smoke. All units cleared at: 8:25 am Turned out to be a vehicle fire that could only be accessed through Deer Park Estates some miles away. How the vehicle […]

General Voting Day: Saturday, October 20, 2018 (8:00 am – 8:00 pm) – Oliver Community Centre Special Voting: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 (Sunnybank Retirement Centre/South Okanagan General Hospital) [eligible voters only] Advance Voting Day: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 (8:00 am – 8:00 pm) – Oliver Community Centre, Room 1 & 2 Voter Eligibility You can […]

By ROY WOOD With nine candidates running for four seats on Osoyoos town council, Tuesday evening’s all-candidates forum at the Sonora Centre, at least gave the 200 or so voters in attendance a chance to put names with faces. Questions from the public were for the most part polite and the candidates’ answers generally well […]

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Yes skiing starts in December Yes this is Baldy the Mountain Yes this is early October No skiing yet !!

  Wine Country Racing Association (WCRA) winds up the 2018 season on Thanksgiving weekend in Osoyoos, BC. The cool air temperatures make for happy engines and enthusiastic drag racers. The results of the weekend’s happiest racers follow: Sportsman Bracket The driver known only as “Fish” (1978 Dodge pick-up) has a whopper of a tale to […]

It is not quite a house call, but Oliver residents will find health care training is being offered very close to home. A special intake of Okanagan College’s Health Care Assistant program is scheduled to be held in February that will give students in the South Okanagan direct access to training for one of the […]

Lichen Macro photo. Foliose Lobaria Pulmonaria, I believe. Very sensitive to pollution and it appears a creative sense of the golden spiral rule of proportions. Thanks Ron