Author: Osoyoos Times

Osoyoos’s community development manager envisions a day when a person could step off a plane in Oliver and be lounging at one of Osoyoos’s resorts only minutes later.
That’s why Jim Newman recommended that Osoyoos council put its support behind a grant application from a committee looking to develop the Oliver Airport.

Anarchist Mountains’ Regal Ridge development has dedicated roughly 1.75 hectares of parkland to the Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS).
Under the Local Government Act, any developer applying to a local government to subdivide a parcel of land can be required to dedicate up to five per cent of the total area of the subdivided property to the local government as parkland.

The spotted wing drosophila has been found in traps all over the Okanagan Valley, according to Sera Lean, a horticulturalist for Oliver’s Grower’s Supply South Valley.
The pest was first discovered in California, and then found in blueberries and wild blackberries on the coast of B.C. in 2009.

With more than 5,000 kilometres separating them, Anarchist Mountain and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are two places that are unlikely to share a connection.
But with the lawyer of Omar Khadr building a house on the mountain, a new link between the mountain and the bay has been established.