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Mike Wiegele calls for public inquiry into snowmobile fatalities
Blue River Snow Packers president Albert Venor says negotiation is a better approach
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Vikings rampage on Candle Creek trails
About 75 people sign up for annual Birchleg event
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Barriere’s New Year’s baby is here
Article updated Feb. 8, 2018
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Crowd cheers home team to win Cougar Classic
It was the hometown team that won the Barriere Secondary Senior Boys Cougar Classic Basketball Tournament last weekend in an incredible final game.
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MP McLeod fights for B.C. wildfire victims
Ottawa- Cathy McLeod, Member of Parliament for Kamloops – Thompson – Cariboo, hand delivered the following letter to the Minister of Finance on Jan. 29, in Parliament. Her letter is as follows:
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New approach to invasive plant management in TNRD underway
A new Thompson- Nicola Invasive Plant Management Committee (TNIPMC) has been created by the TNRD that will administer invasive plant management within the TNRD boundaries.
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TRU welcomes Nathan Matthew as its new chancellor
“It would be so great if my grandparents could be here, it really would be,” Matthew said
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Heffley bridge construction delayed while archeologists search site
Kamloops This Week
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A safe community with slow and stable growth, says past Mayor of Barriere
This week the Star/ Journal touched base with Bill Humphreys who served as Mayor for the District of Barriere from 2011 to 2014.
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Virginia Smith: From Council to sitting in the Mayor’s chair
Mayor Virginia Smith has been with the District of Barriere since its inauguration on December 4, 2007. Smith is now serving in her fourth term in council chambers, and in the Mayor’s chair since 2014.
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