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Mobile health clinic boosted by donations

Contributed Article - July 19, 2023

BY KIRSTEN BOLTON For 100+ Women Who Care Salt Spring After three compelling presentations, including from the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust and Gulf Islands...

Trust gives nod to brewery licence expansion

Robb Magley - July 18, 2023

Despite concerns from neighbours, a divided Trust committee has lent its seal of approval to a Salt Spring brewery’s license expansion. After a packed-house public...

Updated: Body found at Long Harbour

Robb Magley - July 13, 2023

A multi-agency search for a missing man ended tragically Thursday morning as a body was recovered from the shoreline in Long Harbour. Salt Spring Island...

Ganges Harbour water deemed ‘safe for swimming’

Robb Magley - July 12, 2023

As water quality sampling ramps up for the summer swimming season, the health authority has added two new saltwater data points on Salt Spring...

Possible contamination of Beddis water system

Driftwood Staff - July 10, 2023

Salt Spring households on the Beddis water service are being told they must boil their water until further notice, as a water main break...

Youth arrested, witnesses sought in Ganges attack

Driftwood Staff - July 6, 2023

One person was arrested behind Island Savings after an alleged assault that carried on across multiple locations in downtown Ganges, according to police. Salt Spring...

Medical staff association updates community with some good news

Contributed Article - July 6, 2023

FROM the Lady Minto Hospital Medical Staff Association Many thanks for your overwhelming support for the medical staff and allied health professionals during this challenging...

Farmland Trust Food Hub Kitchen open for community

Contributed Article - July 4, 2023

By KIRSTEN BOLTON For SSIFT The Root Food Hub Kitchen is now open, just in time for the summer growing season and in preparation for fall...

Annual ‘Point in Time’ homeless count: 165

Robb Magley - July 4, 2023

As Salt Spring’s affordable housing crisis persists, early data from one local nonprofit suggests the population of the most vulnerable islanders is growing —...

Ferry bedlam mars long weekend

Robb Magley - July 4, 2023

After a Canada Day weekend charitably described as “uneven,” BC Ferries passengers who braved holiday travel to and from Salt Spring Island are left...

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