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Three South Okanagan elementary schools will permanently close in June 2025.

Despite a few small spikes in student enrolment in recent years, the overall trend of student populations in Summerland isn’t healthy enough to save Giant’s Head Elementary from the guillotine.

The axe has started falling on three local schools.

An unexpected sound filled a Penticton auditorium Tuesday night after School District 67 superintendent Todd Manuel finished outlining plans to close three schools and embark on a larger overhaul of

“It’s a very sensitive topic, and we don’t take those conversations lightly,” school Supt. Todd Manuel said during Tuesday’s meeting.

Sweeping changes to the local education system – including closing three elementary schools in Penticton and Summerland and eliminating middle school altogether – were to be proposed Tuesday night to

An unexpected sound filled a Penticton auditorium Tuesday night after School District 67 superintendent Todd Manuel finished outlining plans to close three schools and embark on a larger overhaul of

Construction is set to start this year on just two of four new 80-seat child-care facilities planned for School District 67.

It turns out there were at least three pickup trucks in Summerland that matched the description of one involved last month in a suspected case of child luring.

Police in Summerland are asking for more potential victims to come forward after a suspected child-luring incident last week.