Stuart Wood
Daycare in need of new home denied short-term lease at empty Stuart Wood School
Stuart Wood School in Kamloops won't be filled with the sounds of children again after…
City of Kamloops, community agencies to take action on winter homeless shelter issues
KAMLOOPS – The City of Kamloops is taking action after hearing the public's concerns around…
More than 40 people used Kamloops’s extreme weather shelter last night
KAMLOOPS – For the second year, Kamloops is operating a winter weather shelter that opens…
Killer in Kamloops schoolyard stabbing won’t get parole for 14 years
KAMLOOPS – The man who admitted to killing an innocent bystander in a Kamloops schoolyard…
Breakfast program gets Kamloops kids fed and ready to learn
KAMLOOPS – Almost 100 Kamloops kids would not eat breakfast every morning if it wasn’t…
Facebook rants not preferred solution to problems at Kamloops schools
KAMLOOPS – School administrators in Kamloops would rather angry parents pick up the phone before…
Fight to save Stuart Wood goes legal
CONSULTATION PROCESS ‘DEEPLY FLAWED’ KAMLOOPS - A group upset with the planned closure of Stuart Wood School is hoping to make it a key election issue after a lawyer allegedly found several deficiencies in the way the district handled the decision. Bruce Thomson, the acting chair of the Downtown and West End Residents’ Association, says...
District looks to make Stuart Wood closure official
KAMLOOPS - The decision to close Stuart Wood School could become official this afternoon as the school board prepares for a special meeting to pass the official bylaw. The decision to present the bylaw at a special meeting comes on the heels of a letter sent to the district from the lawyer representing the Downtown...
Future of Stuart Wood landmark could include TRU
KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University is interested in the historic Stuart Wood Elementary School in downtown Kamloops. The City and university have signed an agreement to look at the possible future uses of the school, which is set to be turned back over to the city in September 2016 after students and staff are head...
Council faces off: Is Stuart Wood more important because it is downtown?
KAMLOOPS - More than an hour was spent discussing the merits of keeping Stuart Wood as an elementary school and whether the city should step in to provide ‘support’ to the school district in making the decision. “Where was this passion for John Tod last term?” Mayor Peter Milobar said, “Was it because it was...
Second arrest in gangland murder
KAMLOOPS – A second man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Archie LePretre, 23, over three years ago. LePretre, of Vancouver, was in Kamloops visiting a cousin when they were attacked at the Stuart Wood Elementary School basketball court on March 22, 2011. Taken to hospital with stab wounds, the he was...