Several weeks back the Telegraph took a look inside the Rossland Secondary School success plan and found a school with teachers and administrators operating at a high level based around a new interpretation of the three R’s. This week, we head south-east a couple of blocks down to Maclean Elementary to learn how their success...

 This past Friday, RSS's class of 2011 celebrated in style. Strutting thei stuff as they drove, sea-do'd and quaded down Columbia in their finest....

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily SportsIt’s down to a best of three in the 2011 Stanley Cup Final.Tim Thomas stopped 38 shots to lead the Boston Bruins to a 4-0 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in game four of the Stanley Cup Final Wednesday at the TD Gardens in Beantown.It was the second convincing victory for the Bruins,...

 Rossland’s performing arts scene is bursting at the seams with an incredibly diverse talent base: jugglers, percussionist poets, aria singers, jazz cats, and more.  At the heart of that scene, acting as an incubator, is the Joe Hill Coffee House. Later this month Joe Hill will be wrapping up its season with its 26th show in...

 Often when we look at the history of the Rossland-Trail area, we start with the discovery of gold. If we’re talking about Rossland and Trail the cities, that’s largely correct. Earlier on, however, this area played a key role in the establishment of the current Canadian/American border being situated on the 49th parallel. ...

 Although rain has been plentiful in the last few weeks, the City of Rossland is looking at ways to help conserve water this summer. Together with the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) the city will be offering individual Landscape and Outdoor Water Audits free of charge to homeowners. The water audits are part of the Water Smart ...

 They say there's no surer sign of nothing much to say than talking about the weather. Yet here I am! Living as we do in BC's second highest elevation city, Rosslanders are, or should be, pretty accustomed to unusual weather. This week, however, I found myself the recipient of winter bashing venom on several different occasions...

Hosted by the Rossland Chamber of Commerce and the City of Rossland’s, Sustainability Commission’s Economic Development Task Force, Sandy Santori of the Lower Columbia Initiatives Corporation (LCI) presented to a crowd of 35 people at the Prestige Inn on Thursday, May 26th. The purpose of the evening was to introduce Rosslanders...

Talking to kids and teaching them in a language they can understand. It seems like a natural piece of common sense. Right? When it comes to communicating course outlines and expected outcomes in the school system, however, this hasn’t always been the norm. As part of their continuing strategy for success, Rossland Secondary...

“There is a first time for everything”, as the saying goes, and with a rapidly growing mining camp quickly evolving into a thriving, self-sustaining community that started out from scratch, there were firsts aplenty back in the late 1890s. First mine, first building, first saloon, first lawman, first newspaper and, of course,...