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Kamloops Daily News

Referendum on Kamloops performing arts centre: Will you vote yes or no?

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops residents have one day to make up their minds on whether to vote for or against borrowing $49 million to build a performing arts centre before tomorrow's referendum. Former city councillor Nelly Dever is the spokesperson for the PAC Not Yet campaign. Her group objects to the centre on a largely financial...

Get your performing arts centre questions answered this week

KAMLOOPS - If you still aren't sure how you want to vote in the performing arts centre referendum, there are a couple events coming up to help answer your last minute questions. Advance voting has already taken place for the proposed performing arts centre and the official voting day is set to take place Nov....

Last day of advance voting for proposed Kamloops performing arts centre

KAMLOOPS – A referendum on the proposed performing arts centre in Kamloops is only six days away, but you can vote today in the last of the advance polls. The advance poll will be open form from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m, Nov. 2, at Heritage House located at 100 Lorne St. The City of...

Performing arts centre open house in Brocklehurst tonight

KAMLOOPS - Yet another chance is being given to residents to find out more information about the performing arts centre proposed for downtown Kamloops. The North Shore Business Association, in partnership with the city of Kamloops, will host an information session tonight, Oct. 29. “We have a lot of businesses concerned about the costs of...

NEWSMAKERS 2014: Kamloops Daily News shutdown

THIS WEEK, INFONEWS.CA IS COUNTING DOWN THE TOP NEWSMAKERS OF 2014. TODAY: NUMBER TWO KAMLOOPS - The media landscape changed quickly in 2014 when Glacier Media announced in the first week of the year it would shut down the Kamloops Daily News. “Personally I am very saddened to make this announcement,” Daily News publisher Tim...

Kamloops to take a look at what kind of arts centre best suits the city

KAMLOOPS - Arts and culture has taken yet another leap forward thanks to approval of a study that will outline exactly what Kamloops needs in a performing arts centre. While the study into what a performing arts centre would need to look like in Kamloops was approved alongside the city budget earlier this year the...

City steps closer to finalizing purchase of Daily News property

KAMLOOPS -  It looks like the city is ready to move forward with the purchase of the empty Kamloops Daily News property. In March only 39 city electors returned responses against the loan of $4.8 million required to buy the property. At the time Mayor Peter Milobar said the site was considered a necessary purchase...

Daily News property could become parkade, city hall or performing arts centre

KAMLOOPS — The former Daily News property could become the new downtown parkade, or a performing arts centre, or even a new city hall if the city gets approval for the $4.8 million purchase. Mayor Peter Milobar announced Thursday morning the city is looking to purchase the property, which includes the building and the parking...

Last Kamloops Daily News edition delivered

KAMLOOPS – For many in Kamloops Saturday was a sad day. The last edition of the Kamloops Daily News was published and delivered. Ironically there was a scramble to newsstands around the city Saturday morning. People who don’t subscribe and get the paper delivered to their homes, had to race around town to get a...

Daily News to publish final edition this Saturday

KAMLOOPS — Only two more editions of the Kamloops Daily News will hit news stands before the paper closes the doors for good. After more than 80 years publishing in the city the Daily News confirmed this morning that Friday will be the final day of office hours with the final edition coming out Saturday....

Many in community ‘shocked’ over closure of Kamloops Daily News

KAMLOOPS - Even the man who has come to personify the Kamloops Daily News never saw its closure coming, and expressed the same shock this morning as many others in the community. Mel Rothenburger spent nearly 40 years with the newspaper, formerly as editor and still as a regular columnist. “Quite honestly, I feel like...

Kamloops Daily News shutting down

HOW KAMLOOPS, CANADA REACTED TO CLOSURE KAMLOOPS – The Kamloops Daily News, a staple in the city for more than 80 years, will cease publication within the next 60 days, the city learned this morning. Parent company Glacier Media announced today the presses will stop running, saying it was unable to reduce expenses sufficiently to...