Sooke News Mirror

First modular affordable housing building eyed for Sooke

The four-storey, 75-unit project is located at 2170 Charters Rd.

LETTER: Get a haircut, get a real job

I find it amusing that all these people are accusing the RCMP of criminal behaviour at Fairy Creek.

  • Aug 30, 2021

LETTER: Park could be a lovely garden

My wife and I recently visited three local gardens: Outerbridge Gardens, Playfair Gardens and Finnerty Gardens. They were delightful.

  • Aug 30, 2021

LETTER: Public wanted park as green space

I was the mayor when Sooke council voted to pursue the John Phillips Memorial Park land as a community park/green space. At the time, it was an issue with the public, who wanted to keep it a golf course.

  • Aug 30, 2021

LETTER: Residents in dark about park plans

We have attended Sooke Country Market the past few weekends to ask residents their views on the district's plan to allow the Sooke Lions Club to construct and privately operate a community centre in John Phillips Memorial Park.

  • Aug 30, 2021

Commercial groundwater users have to register, start paying for water

New rules take effect March 2022

  • Aug 27, 2021

Out-of-catchment bus change leaving parents scrambling in Sooke, West Shore

Students who choose schools out of their catchment might not get a ride this year

  • Aug 27, 2021

12 Sooke horseshoe pitchers head to B.C. championships in Abbotsford

It's the biggest team Sooke has ever sent to the competition

LETTER: Save Sooke’s last open park space

Climate change must be top of mind in park development, reader says

  • Aug 26, 2021

LETTER: Time to stop ‘idling’ around

Choosing not to idle is better for your car, saves money and reduces harmful emissions, says reader

  • Aug 26, 2021

LETTER: Are candidates serious about climate change?

Or are they are happy to help burn B.C. to the ground? Readers asks

  • Aug 25, 2021

LETTER: More discussion needed on park plan

Council has adopted a process that limits a broader open discussion, reader says

  • Aug 25, 2021

LETTER: New world exclusion zones

Last week, I observed an indigenous youth, corralled by three burly RCMP officers, trussed up and hauled away from the Fairy Creek blockade. Earlier, Teal Jones employees set a large iron gate blocking Granite Main, the main access road to the upper Fairy Creek old-growth forest.

  • Aug 25, 2021

UPDATE: Sooke RCMP locate missing man

Jerzy Peregudow, 46, last seen Aug. 22

Plans for Sooke Lions Club park project draw opposition

Group wants more public consultation

Sooke receives new funding to support vulnerable people

Local groups receive $413,412 in joint provincial and federal funding

  • Aug 23, 2021

FITNESS: Is the fitness industry mortally wounded?

Fitness at home has exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Aug 21, 2021

Sooke Philharmonic Fling! will fill the air Aug. 29

Free outdoor classical concert in Ed Macgregor Park

  • Aug 21, 2021

Sooke bracing for major increase to RCMP salaries

A constable could make up to $20K more

Artists draw inspiration at special show

The show will be a first-ever partnership of Arts Council and Sooke Fine Arts, splitting funds 50/50

  • Aug 19, 2021