Squamish News

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.

For the past two years, countless volunteers have worked on creating a new trail at Murrin Lake Park. It's expected to open officially in June.