Just as Hamlet contemplated suicide in Shakespeare’s play, Council is contemplating financial suicide for the taxpayers of Rossland.  Earlier this year, CAO Victor Kumar urged Council to  rescind the Development Cost Charge (DCC) bylaw. Mayor Granstrom and his happy band of robotic rubber-stampers were happy to oblige.  Only...

The Mir Centre for Peace at Selkirk College is pleased to host Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation of Commission of Canada.  The first speaker of the 2012-13 lecture series, Justice Sinclair will speak at the Brilliant Cultural Centre in Castlegar on September 21, about his role in educating all...

The Kootenay Columbia Trails Society (KCTS) is proud present its new website. The website rebuild has been made possible with the financial support of the Columbia Basin Trust, Nelson and District Credit Union and Tourism Rossland New features of the website are two-fold. Firstly updated trail descriptions, new formats,...

Groups with projects that support social well-being and address social issues in Basin communities can now apply to Columbia Basin Trust’s (CBT’s) new Social Grants Program. This is the first time applications are being accepted to the program, and a total of $500,000 is available for project grants. The application deadline is 4 p.m. PDT […]

Council declassified the in camera (closed meeting) minutes last night regarding the resignation of CAO Victor Kumar and his replacement by Cecile Arnott—seemingly by appointment rather than through an open job competition—but the details of the switch nevertheless remain unavailable for the moment.Coun. Kathy Moore was the...

As Columbia Ave. gets a fresh coat of concrete—complete with impromptu doggie prints—Coun. Jody Blomme raised the twin issues of public smoking and downtown dogs at Tuesday's regular council meeting."We are nearing the end of downtown construction, we have to think about how we're going to use the downtown now," she said,...

Lots of concrete will be poured this week: curbs, swales, sidewalks and sidewalk banding.  Concrete work will be the primary work being done for the next two weeks.  Washington St. water services are proceeding this week. Once the water is complete the sewer and storm will follow. The excavation for the sewer is very deep,13ft...

Long dead Phoenix miners and a modern-day Welsh connection will be featured on a British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) radio Wales program on Thursday, Sept. 6 at 10:30 a.m. British time. The popular BBC program, Jamie and Louise, hosted by Jamie Owen and Louise Elliott, will be including genealogist Cat Whiteaway in their morning...

The quick action of the Grand Forks Fire Rescue and the Southeast Fire Centre soon got a 22 acre (8.9 hectares) grass fire under control in the Brown Creek area, Saturday, Sept. 1. Grand Forks Fire Rescue was called out at 1:30 p.m. that day after a mower blade struck a rock when a man […]

The Kootenay-Boundary region is a hotbed of entrepreneurial spirit, talent and creativity that continues to hatch innovative small businesses. While great ideas and enterprise are here in abundance, the legal steps required to translate ideas into a fully operational and functional businesses can be a major hurdle. Launching...