Osoyoos town council gave second and third reading to a zoning bylaw amendment that could allow for the parking of vehicles and boat trailers at a property at 6901 Main St. which borders Harbour Key Drive. The amendment was given first reading on May 19 and if it’s adopted, the Town would enter into a lease agreement with the property’s owners, the Osoyoos Pyramid Corporation Ltd. [...more]
Editor: Because my wife and I are not great consumers and because we compost our kitchen waste, we almost always have one grocery bag of garbage to set at the curb each week. This week, because I had been picking up after the litter bugs that pass our place, I had filled a second grocery bag [...] [...more]
Police announced on May 28 that 31 kilograms of cocaine were seized at the Osoyoos border crossing on the evening of May 5. Members of the Osoyoos RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency officers made the seizure after searching a 2005 Dodge Caravan from Canada that was attempting to re-enter British Columbia. [...more]
A retaining wall that has been at the heart of a five-year-old battle between the Town of Osoyoos and a Lobelia Drive resident will have to be removed. In a decision dated May 28, Justice G.M. Barrow granted the Town an injunction against Ken Nelmes to remove a five-and-a-half-metre-high retaining wall on his property bordering Jasmine Drive. [...more]
It was an evening dedicated to forging stronger connections between the communities of Osoyoos, Oliver and the Osoyoos Indian Band. Roughly 100 people came together at the band’s community hall in Oliver on May 26 to celebrate the National Day of Healing and Reconciliation. [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-June 3, 2009- By Paul Everest-Osoyoos Times The usual lunch for seven-year-old Seth Kriese is sandwiches and some snacks. And while that’s still pretty good, the Grade 2 student said he was pretty impressed by the lunch choices he was presented with on May 27 when Osoyoos Elementary School (OES) launched its new salad bar at lunchtime. “I [...] [...more]
Editor: We walk our dog on the canal trail every day. One day last week, as usual, I put my driver’s licence in my pocket and started out. I was unaware until the next day that my licence had dropped out of my pocket. I would like to thank the very kind person who found it and turned it [...] [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-June 3, 2009 This is an apology to our readers. Our job is to be the best and most complete source of news for this community and we didn’t come through. Because we’re only a small, community newspaper without as much clout as large daily newspapers run by big corporations or nightly entertainment shows, we weren’t able [...] [...more]
