OSOYOOS TIMES-July 22, 2009 Osoyoos town council has been put in the middle of at least two disputes in town this month where neighbours are feuding over various reasons. In both cases, the universal suggestion from council has been for the parties involved to sit down, find common ground and mediate a solution. It’s wise advice. And it’s advice [...] [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-July 15, 2009 By Paul Everest - Osoyoos Times The Town of Osoyoos is stepping in to help resolve a dispute between Osoyoos’s Good Shepherd Christian School and some of its neighbours. The feud was brought into the public realm on July 6 when Roy and Sharon Laybourne appeared before Osoyoos town council. The couple, who live across [...] [...more]
The chief administrative officer of the Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) has asked the Town of Osoyoos to put its plans to close the Osoyoos Landfill’s septic ponds to waste from outside town boundaries on hold. In a letter dated June 30, Bill Newell requested “an extension to allow septic wastes to be received at the Osoyoos Landfill from Regional District residents beyond the September 2, 2009 deadline.” [...more]
At its July 6 meeting, Osoyoos town council gave Town staff the go-ahead to transfer $10,000 which had been budgeted for upgrades to the Desert Park equestrian facility towards the completion of an engineering study of the park’s grandstands. The Town had originally budgeted $5,000 for the structural engineering study. [...more]
An Osoyoos woman free on bail from a drug-related arrest in Osoyoos in May has once again found herself in trouble with the law. Tracy Carriere, 38, was arrested in Okanagan Falls on July 2 after allegedly trying to sell a small amount of crystal methamphetamine to an undercover member of the Penticton RCMP drug unit. [...more]
Editor: Good Shepherd Christian School in Osoyoos was criticized by a few neighbours at last week’s Town of Osoyoos Council Meeting. GSCS is owned and operated by Grace Lutheran Church of Osoyoos and licensed by the Independent Schools Branch of the B.C. Ministry of Education. It has been in operation for almost 20 years, and is part of [...] [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-July 15, 2009 The whole Northwest Sewer Project effort is really dragging on. The project has been planned for years and countless promises have been made in the past 12 months about shovels going into the ground any day now. From here, it doesn’t appear that we’re anywhere near the point where a shovel can go in [...] [...more]
OSOYOOS TIMES-July 8, 2009 By Laurena Weninger and Paul Everest - Osoyoos Times Head south from the Strawberry Creek Road up a steep, dusty trail just out of sight of the Osoyoos Rifle Range and eventually the green and brown landscape of antelope brush and small trees turns into a long stretch of charred rocks, black dirt [...] [...more]
Roughly 130 property owners living along the northwest shore of Osoyoos Lake could be back on the hook for part of the cost of the planned Northwest Sewer Project. Georgia Laine Developments, the developers of the Willow Beach Resort slated for the head of the lake, had finalized an agreement earlier this year with the Town of Osoyoos to contribute more than $18 million towards the $23 million extension of the Town’s sewage system to the northwest shore. [...more]
This year, 241 Osoyoos property owners didn’t pay their taxes on time. “We collected 93.24 per cent of the total taxes,” said Jim Zakall, Osoyoos’s finance director, on July 3, the day after the municipal tax deadline. That is up .17 per cent over those paid on time last year, but a .84 per cent decrease of the average calculated over the last five years. [...more]
