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BEPPLE – Real solution for Westmount school is bus service from Batchelor

April 18, 2018 // 3 Comments

INDUCED DEMAND is the phenomenon where traffic gets worse, not better, when roads are improved. Build more roads, get more traffic. Make traffic more efficient, get more [Continue]

SCHOOLS – Community partnerships are crucial to good education

April 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

By SHELLEY SIM Trustee, School District 73 “Partnership is not a posture but a process – a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to [Continue]

SCHOOLS – Teamwork, collaboration are key parts of local education

March 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

By JOE SMALL Trustee, School District 73 IT GOES WITHOUT saying, providing education to more than 14,000 students in several communities across hundreds of kilometres of the [Continue]

SCHOOLS – Aboriginal perspective recognizes learning is not linear

February 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

By DENISE HARPER Trustee, School District 73 TEN YEARS AGO, while attending a regional school trustees meeting in Lillooet, I was treated to a tour of a traditional fish camp [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Time SD73 got a fair shake on funding for school upgrades

August 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

THIS BOOKLET tells an interesting story — it was announced by the School District 73 board of education this week and makes for some fascinating reading about how Kamloops [Continue]

Late shift for snow-plowing crews

January 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

UPDATE — City snow-removal crews will be working in the business districts during the evenings tonight (Wednesday) and through Friday. Targeted areas tonight include 1st [Continue]

Another snow day for schools, not TRU

January 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

UPDATE — Thompson Rivers University campus will be open for business today (Tuesday). The university announced at 6:30 a.m. that regular operations will resume today after [Continue]

New Kamloops-Thompson school board takes office

December 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ SCHOOLS — The board of trustees will be sworn into office tonight (Monday) for the Kamloops-Thompson School District. Joan Cowden, Kathleen Karpuk, Joe Small, Meghan [Continue]

Working the cobwebs out of schools

September 20, 2014 // 1 Comment

NEWS/ SCHOOLS — It may take a few days to work the cobwebs out of the school system when it fires up for another year of classes Monday, says Kamloops-Thompson [Continue]

School’s in at 10:30 a.m. Monday

September 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ SCHOOLS — Classes will start Monday at 10:30 a.m. for elementary and secondary classes in the Kamloops-Thompson School District. The district issued a notice to [Continue]

Editorial — Should parents ask their kids to take sides?

September 2, 2014 // 4 Comments

TUESDAY MORNING EDITORIAL — When should parents start involving their children in politics, especially the politics of protest? At least some Kamloops parents are joining [Continue]

Schools empty and behind picket lines as ‘job action like no other’ by teachers hits town

May 28, 2014 // 1 Comment

By MICHELE YOUNG Kamloops schools were empty except for principals and vice-principals, students stayed home and teachers held picket signs as the B.C. Teachers’ [Continue]