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The Penticton Public Library will remain open on Sundays throughout most of 2011.Penticton council voted 5-2 on Monday to add $4,000 to the library board’s budget to reopen the facility on Sundays come October.

After nearly a decade in testing and implementation, the Ministry of Education is calling in a consultant to tell them why the B.C. enterprise Student Information System (BCeSIS) isn’t up to snuff.

Pentictonites appear to be getting a new place to purchase discounted or second-hand merchandise. You need only raise your hand.

Spring is definitely in the air as evidenced by the turnout for the 16th annual Home and Renovation Show.

The proposed closing of Tuc-el-Nuit school in Oliver was unanimously seen by School District 53 trustees as one of the few options to cut their budget without much disturbance.

A man who Penticton RCMP called a high-risk pedophile has pled guilty to breaches of a recognizance.

Nothing is set in stone when it comes to renaming Oliver’s streets according to one councillor.

Ambitions for a prison within Kelowna’s boundaries were laid to rest Tuesday afternoon, when B.C.’s Solicitor General publicly put a kibosh on the plan 15 years in the making.

The City of Penticton will apply for a grant from the Okanagan Basin Water Board to help preserve local oxbows, the habitat-rich corners of lake marshes left orphaned from the flow of the Okanagan River when it was channelized in the 1950s.