Once in a while, you get to be part of a moment that matters. Midnight on Monday night offered a moment like that, when Oliver’s long-awaited Syrian refugee family stepped off the airplane at the Penticton airport and suddenly transformed from hypothetical refugees into real people: Mom with an exhausted smile and an armload of […]

By Roy Wood Cars blocking snow plows will risk towing Cars that inhibit ice and snow clearing from the streets of Osoyoos will be subject to towing after council approved a change to its traffic bylaw on Monday. In a report to council, operations director Jim Dinwoodie said that while they are rare, there are […]

By ROY WOOD The town of Osyoos will participate in a regional heritage preservation service at an annual cost of about 34 cents per household. Council voted Monday to get on board the program, which is aimed at bringing a region-wide approach to the development and promotion of heritage sites. Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen […]