Is this crown land or privately owned? This road down hillside scaring the view observed recently with questions in mind. Do you know?
Archives for 2019
Quote of the week
” ……I’m not sure it’s that helpful because if the names of victims aren’t made public then it’s really neighbourhood gossip and social media that might fill in some erroneous information and I don’t think that’s really what the public needs”… New RCMP privacy (publication of names) policy affects small communities the most In small […]
Osoyoos supports OBWB on milfoil roto-tilling
By ROY WOOD Osoyoos will lobby Ottawa and Victoria for the right to continue uprooting Eurasian milfoil despite fears for the future of an at-risk native freshwater mollusc called the Rocky Mountain Ridged Mussel (RMRM). Responding to a request from the Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB), council this afternoon agreed to send letters to […]
Council adopts 2019 tax rate bylaw
By ROY WOOD Osoyoos adopted its tax rates bylaw this afternoon, making official the 2.93%-per-cent increase in property taxes over last year. The deadline for the approval, set by the provincial government, is May 15. The average assessment for a single-family residential property in Osoyoos is $429,687, on which the owner will pay a […]
Council briefs – Osoyoos
$13K approved for fence at Cottonwood Beach It will cost about $13,000 to protect the public from the failing Allan-Block retaining wall at Cottonwood Beach this summer. But the price could have been considerably higher. Osoyoos council this afternoon opted for the cheapest of three “temporary remedial actions” proposed in a report from operations […]
Body of young man found off McKinney Rd – deemed not a homicide
2019-05-06 14:07 PDT File # 2019-2076 On April 30th, 2019 at approximately 8:40 a.m. Oliver RCMP were called to a remote location East of Oliver where a recently burned truck was located. Upon examination of burnt vehicle, human remains were identified amongst fire debris. ( A older model Ford cab truck reported by police as […]
Later this month
Aggressive campaign needed to de-root milfoil in Okanagan lakes
Municipal and Regional governments are being asked this week to campaign on an issue that needs support in the Okanagan watershed – the control of milfoil in a number of lakes with beaches and high end recreational value. Okanagan Basin Water Board( OBWB) – is a body funded by government but mainly by three regional […]