Five schools axed in big district shuffle
Hundreds of Cowichan Valley students will find themselves in new surroundings in September as Trustee Mike McKay closed five school buildings Wednesday, May 15. Closing are ...
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What next for Kerry Park?
Sarah Simpson / Cowichan Valley Citizen
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Wait for CVRD water study, says council
Sarah Simpson / Cowichan Valley Citizen
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Lock windows and doors, warn RCMP
Sarah Simpson / Cowichan Valley Citizen
District making massive shifts
The Cowichan Valley School District will now take part in a game of musical chairs in a sweeping shift of programs and facilities announced May 15 to an expectant house at Cowichan ...
Police investigate suspicious death
Ladysmith RCMP are investigating a suspicious death at a home on Wagon Wheel Trail in Yellow Point. A neighbour found the body of 76-yar-old Kenneth Benjamin Hein in Hein’s ...
Bill Routley victorious in tight Cowichan Valley race
NDP incumbent MLA Bill Routley has retained his seat in the legislature, winning the 40th provincial election in a race far closer than even the most experienced pundit would ever ...
Win bittersweet for re-elected Doug Routley after NDP loss
Doug Routley expressed mixed emotions as he was re-elected to represent in the Nanaimo-North Cowichan riding in Tuesday's election, while his NDP was defeated by the Liberal Party ...
CVRD looking for dirty dirt site
While five hopeful MLA candidates were going to public debates, opposing dirty dirt in the Cowichan Valley, the CVRD was hatching its own plan for contaminated soil. In their May 8 ...
What next for Kerry Park?
The South Cowichan community has three chances to talk about and to tour the aging Kerry Park Recreation Centre - the first being Thursday, May 23 at an open house from 5 to 8 p.m. ...
'Lukey's lost ledge': looking for lost lode of Queen Charlotte's
Another attempt to catch the will o' the wisp of Queen Charlotte's - Victoria interested in the present search - History of the famous ledge. Every blue moon, I luck upon a story ...
Award winners!
The Cowichan Valley Citizen was pleased to take home several provincial and national journalism awards this year, including first place nationally for our 2012 Agricultur and Food ...
Lake Cowichan facing doctor-less future
Lake Cowichan residents, now having to face that they will have no doctor in the community at all by the end of this year, are still looking around for ways to attract a physician to ...
Woman charged after car hits, damages fence
Just before 2 a.m. on May 18, the Lake Cowichan RCMP were called to a scene in which a car crashed through a fence on Comiaken Avenue. The vehicle and its operator were nowhere to be ...
Time to wake up to wild salmon crisis
On Saturday night [May 18], my husband and myself will be attending the gala fundraiser at the Oceanfront Suites Resort in Cowichan Bay. This is a fundraiser to support the work of ...
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What are the facts on dirty dirt?
The CVRD efforts to find a dump site for contaminated waste is commendable; a society that creates waste should be prepared to dispose of it. (Ref. Ms. Simpson's news item.) The South ...
Dump site a poor choice
Re: Draft permit to South Island Aggregates on the Malahat to dump 100,000 tonnes a year, up to 5 million tonnes over 50 years, of contaminated waste into the Shawnigan lake watershed ...
Mill Bay ferry rescues couple and their dog
A fast-acting B.C. Ferries crew helped rescue two people and a dog from a sinking boat in Saan-ich Inlet on Monday. Two people on a 16-foot Bay-liner called for help about 2 p.m., B.C....
It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it
Kevin Rothbauer, Citizen / Win Teague, left, and Bob Hale clean prawns for patrons of Cowichan Bay's annual Spot Prawn Festival on Sunday morning. After purchasing prawns at the wharf,...
