THE LUNCH DATE They decided to meet halfway on neutral grounds. He was driving north from his city condo and she was headed south from her country cottage. They had not seen each other since their divorce fifteen years ago. This lunch meeting was a first. He had suggested it, ostensibly over their mutual concerns […]

Things are getting a little crazy in Oliver.  In an old highways shed on Airport Street that members of community theatre troupe, SOAP Theatre, affectionately refer to as “Big Blue”, the cast and crew of Beyond Therapy are working hard putting on the finishing touches for opening night on February 1.  In rehearsal since late […]

Pictures found on a Texas based website by Walt* Hadikin

Rick Machial has sat at the Oliver Town council table for a long time – more than 28 years. He is a respected farmer and businessman. Last night he did as he had promised to do and persisted in asking this new council to reverse a decision made in 2018 that barred Water Councillors from […]

Council (Town of Oliver) will write to Interior Health again asking for an explanation to the question – what is being done to ensure local doctors are paid well for service doing ER shifts at So General Hospital. In a letter from Interior Health dated January 17 several assertions weremade that short term and long […]

A woman presumed to have perished when a Penticton home caught fire more than a year ago was officially declared dead by a judge Monday, bringing to a close a case that baffled investigators. Mary Ruth Esta was 92 and lived alone when her Lakeside Road home was devoured in a spectacular blaze on Oct. […]

Slide show for Monday’s council meeting in Oliver