With the onset of spring we are finally nearing the end of cold and flu season, a time period similar to the dark ages for parents with small children.

Last week, I attended a sustainability conference in Prince Edward Island. In communities all over Canada, people are grappling with the word.

I have collected a few of the common arguments against them for the purposes of offering an opposing viewpoint for balance.

There may be fewer parking spots available in the downtown core if council passes a downtown parking incentive program.

District of Squamish may fine a film production company for illegally shooting at the Smoke Bluff Park in January. The illegal movie shoot was discovered by Brian Moorehead, a member of the Smoke Bluffs Parks Committee.

A vertical farming entrepreneur is leaving Squamish and planning to set up his farm in Langley.

Ridership in Squamish has seen a 3.9 per cent increase since BC Transit improved and added new bus services, a provincial transit official said.

In the December 1969 elections, Alice Makowichuk topped the aldermanic polls – the first female elected to local government here since Jean McRae in 1948.

Sea to Sky Gondola is holding its first annual Job Fair at the Executive Inn in Squamish on April 4th and 5th, 2014.

Dave Crewson and Mario Gomes have created Startup Squamish, a place where entrepreneurs can share ideas and information, and find the support they need to transmute passion into action.

When the utility bill makes its way to the Squamish Seniors Housing Society, Laura Modray will receive it with a sense of relief and curious anticipation. This year, Modray knows the bill wouldn’t be as bad as it has been for years because of the new water meters at the housing complex.

The Association of Professional Engineers and Geologists (APEG) have started a bursary in honour of the late Squamish geologist Frank Baumann.

A Ring Creek home owner faces $35,000 in cleanup bills after a hoarder converted her property on Ring Creek Road into a fortress of garbage. The home owner says most of it came from the Squamish landfill, and with the active help of the landfill staff.

You don’t go to this gym; you just stumble upon this hidden gem installed behind the Brennan Park Recreation Centre. And you may not have stretched a muscle on it, the same can’t be said about your wallet.

Squamish Off-road Cycling Association (SORCA) is offering riders — specifically those from out of town — the opportunity to donate $15 and receive a trail pass to pay for materials and wages for some local professional trail-builders.

Personally I am agnostic about drive-thrus. But below I have collected a few of the common arguments against them for the purposes of offering an opposing viewpoint for balance.

By Craig CherletPublished: March 13, 2014   It’s been nearly 30 years since the inaugural TED conference in 1984, a conference

With Training Innovation's Encore Program and the support of local businesses, mature workers learn new skills that help them re-enter the economy.

Garibaldi at Squamish proponents have asked for a one-year extension for the environmental assessment process, asking the EAO to extend the deadline to submit supplemental information to June 2015.

It can take as many as 10 days, sometimes two weeks, to receive the call bookworms eagerly await: Your inter-library loan book has arrived. Now, council has approved a budget cut that will further delay that call.

In 2007, District of Squamish staff logged 12,988 hours of overtime, but that number has been on a downward slide since.

Managed solely by community volunteers, the medical equipment loan program lends patients medical equipment for temporary use.

Numerous plans, visions and reports along with the OCP sit on the shelves at our municipal hall yet none of them seem to present the top cover of the puzzle box as the guide.

An LNG plant in our community holds the promise of high paying jobs and large municipal tax payments without many of the drawbacks of the former heavy industry tenants of Howe Sound.

In an interview with Gagandeep Ghuman, the general manager of financial services Joanne Greenlees talks about expenses, reserves, debt and the challenge of drafting a budget that balances service expectations and tax increases.