Freddie Boutilier helps build a teepee at Horse Lake Elementary School on Wednesday, Sept. 17. (Patrick Davies photo - 100 Mile Free Press)

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Teepee built at Horse Lake Elementary School in Cariboo as symbol of reconciliation

The teepee will be used as an outdoor classroom and indigenous learning space

While leaf blowers are used in autumn, there are some efforts to ban these devices. (Black Press Media file photo)

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QUIZ: Are you ready to spring into fall?

This year, autumn in the northern hemisphere begins on Sept. 22

Photographer Michelle Obre captured a picture of algae on Wiliams Lake in 2023. (Michelle Obre photo)

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Senior Captain Lori Bartlett-Tribbeck and Senior Chief Engineer Jodi Bartlett-Gaude in their dress uniforms.

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Telkwa’s sea-faring twins’ roles continue to evolve

Senior Captain Lori Bartlett-Tribbeck and Senior Engineer Jodi Bartlett-Gaude are both getting new ships

The Shuswap branch of the BC SPCA asked residents to be on the lookout for hedgehogs in the area of Okanagan Avenue SE and Little Mountain, after a hoglet was found near the tennis courts on Monday, Sept. 15. A mother hedgehog and baby were found in the same area the week prior.

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Residents asked to be on lookout for hedgehogs at large in Salmon Arm

Mother and hoglets found along Okanagan Ave. SE near Little Mountain

London, with her new-to-her scooter, and Stephanie Shellborn of Salmon Arm.

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B.C. girl’s sunken treasure find leads to wedded bliss for Seattle man

'I thought it was a shell until I looked at the side of it and then it was a…

Ethan DeHoog (left) at his graduation from Studio 58, Theatre and School at Langara College in Vancouver.

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Bulkley Valley artist returns home with cardboard boxes and other ways to travel

Ethan DeHoog will put on three performances of his solo show at the Old Church

Freckled pelt (Peltigera aphthosa).

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Rosamund Pojar

The Sticky Files

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No smartphone, no problems: What does a 10-year-old need one for anyway?

Every day, my 10-year-old asks me for a phone, and every day I say no; it is almost…

Smithers Fire Rescue's Fire Chief Alle Jan de Vries' son Sijtse de Vries mans the BBQ.

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Smithers Fire Rescue raises $14K for automated external defibrillators

Firefighters held two fundraising barbecues over the weekend