Mill Bay News

Cops are scratching their heads and wondering why a man would risk a minimum four years behind bars for less than 50 bucks taken during an armed hold-up. "These places have signs all over saying there is less than $50 on the premises," said Shawnigan Lake RCMP Cpl.

Cowichanians can set boots and umbrellas aside and soak up some Noel music at Brentwood College School during Fridaya s Concert For A Wintera s Eve.

Fresh from voting down a pool and proposed changes to the Kerry Park arena, South Cowichan residents are invited to attend a pair of open house to hear about the South Cowichan Official Community Plan project.

Five of B.C.'s best music and vocal students are Cowichanians. And one of them is the best in the country.

Vancouver Island is known in the province, in Canada and globally for its ground breaking work in areas ranging from electric vehicles, software development to green energy solutions.

Plans are still up in the air for a church that was donated to the Cowichan Valley Regional District.

The recent Fleece & Fibre Fair in Duncan was an hors d'oeuvre for this month's Tzouhalem Spinners & Weavers Guild's interactive Weavers' Sale at Mill Bay's Loft gallery, guild members say.

Vancouver Island is known in the province, in Canada and globally for its ground breaking work in areas ranging from electric vehicles, software development to green energy solutions.

Juno nominated bluesman Joel Fafard returns to Cowichan for two shows this weekend.

This was more like it. No barricades. No fancy video screens. No zombies or booming sound systems.

It's so close we can almost taste it! The Olympic Torch is just days away from coming through the Cowichan Valley and it all begins in the south end on the morning of Oct.

The effort to reorganize the local government at the lake into one municipality wona t get very far in the short term because of a lack of government funding.

Serena Leblond, chosen to be an Olympic torch runner, practices in her official garb with a baguette in the parking lot of Cobble Hill Country Grocer, where she works as a baker's apprentice.

Jay Burnham with his BioFreak bike. Photograph by: Christa Rivington , Special to Times Colonist Jay Burnham will be adding a little extra eye candy to the Playboy Mansion next weekend.

If you remember the 1970s, youa ll remember Godspell. The Broadway play, which began off-Broadway in 1970, was made into a movie in 1973 and one of its songs, Day By Day from the original cast album, reached number 13 on the Billboard pop singles chart in the summer of 1972.

Although long considered a fruit the fig is actually a flower that is inverted into itself.

People on both sides of the Malahat are mourning the death of a Victoria pharmacist and dad who was killed in a road crash.

Some areas were up, and others were down but overall the Cowichan Valley balanced out and was close to raising the same kind of money it did during last year's Cops For Cancer Tour de Rock.

20 Mill Springs Village Come Home to Mill Bay community block party saw developers Fraser McColl and Gerald Hartwig present the Mill Bay Fire Department with a cheque for $20,000 toward a highway interceptor light.

Robert Matas Vancouver - From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Tuesday, Sep.