Whistler

Yellow "welcome home ribbons" are starting to appear and the John Ryan Regeneration Tour headquarters is gearing up for Ryan’s return home to Whistler on Sept. 11. A huge welcome celebration is planned for 2 p.m. in Village Square on Sept. 11.

Prior to the Sept. 7 public hearing on the Lot 5/Emerald Forest proposal municipal staff will host an open house, where members of the public can discuss details of the proposal.

It's not called the Town Hall meeting anymore — the annual community gathering designed to take the resort’s temperature and debate its future is being dubbed the Resort Community Open House this year. The fall event has been slated for Sept.

Parking lots won’t be paved this year By Loreth Beswetherick There was $1 million set aside in the 1999 municipal budget to pave the day skier parking lots but that is not going to happen this year, and that means there will be no municipal pay parki

Rotary grows with Millennium By Loreth Beswetherick More than 20 years ago, when the Whistler population hovered around the 2,000 mark, Bob Bishop — original developer of Whistler Cay, Whistler Cay Heights and the Whistler Golf Course — rounded up 18

One last HIT for the season By Amy Fendley It has been a successful summer for the Whistler-Blackcomb Habitat Improvement Team (HIT), which has one last work session scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 7.

If you think you’ve seen more bears in your backyard than usual, you’re right.

By Loreth Beswetherick A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has thrown a spanner into the workings of a provincial process currently underway to try and regulate commercial backcountry operations in the Sea to Sky area.

By Amy Fendley More than 300 art enthusiasts were present to celebrate the grand opening of art junction@function, Aug. 20. The inaugural exhibition at the new gallery, which continues until Sept. 26, features Whistler and B.C.

Creekside mellow for Stoltmann subhead: Fewer than 200 show for six-band festival By Paul Andrew Organization and scant promotion are being cited for the small turn-out — fewer than 200 people — during the Stoltmann Music Festival Aug.