Dear Mayor Bogs: We here at the Rossland Telegraph, along with many other Rosslanders, were saddened and disappointed to hear recently that Trail City Council has submitted a letter to School District 20 advocating the termination of K-12 education in Rossland. We believe strongly that when times are tough - and they are...

Dear editor, I am a mother of a two year old toddler and I am contemplating moving to the Rossland area with my husband. We are looking at this as our permanent move and are eager to raise our daughter in a beautiful area with so many healthy opportunities. I was raised in the area and have extensive family throughout the...

Hmm. This week, Rossland city council has been working on its communication skills on several fronts. On Monday, Council issued its first glossy newsletter this week (bye trees!) and is considering a monthly column in the Trail Times (bye forest!). There are also plans to put in place a public input period at the beginning ...

By Rachel Witter Recently, a company called Aquilini Renewable Energy submitted an application to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary requesting the re-zoning of a piece of property on Ponderosa Drive, about two minutes south of Christina Lake. This re-zoning would then allow Aquilini to construct a two-phase,...

As the snow has been melting over these past couple of warm weeks (Is spring coming already? Did winter even really get started?) the brown land mines planted around town by our dog population have started appearing everywhere. Walking up Washington Street the other day, doing my best to keep my head up and continue a...

On Monday of this week, I went to a talk in Nelson by Chris Turner, the Calgarian author of The Geography of Hope (Note to Self: does he pay royalties to Barack Obama or is Mr. Turner just audacious?), a book that bravely attempts to grab a very ferocious bull by both horns. Unfortunately, they turn out to be the horns of a...

It’s becoming common journalistic practice to do an assessment of a new government after its first hundred days in office and that milestone will be passed this weekend here in Rossland: it’s now been three months since the election of our new mayor and council. Last November’s election followed the tenure of the previous...

A couple of years ago, in BC’s first referendum on the Single Transferable Vote system, the initiative garnered 58% of the vote, a mere 2% short of the 60% it needed to become law. In this May’s provincial election, British Columbians will be asked to vote on the STV a second (and presumably final) time. The basic idea behind...

If there’s a lesson to be learned from the current global crisis or crises, it’s that we all stand or fall together. That’s been the case, probably, since 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945 when America dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, but the idea is just beginning to sink in now, more than sixty years...

I shed human tears twice this last week. Yesterday, I listened to Barack Obama’s inaugural address and found his words about the qualities that make America (and any democracy) great very stirring. Democracy is a way of organizing people that allows us to support one other and pursue our dreams, individually and collectively....