Conservation Officer Ben Beetlestone arrived in Rossland at 8 a.m. last Saturday morning to meet with the owner of a dog that had been attacked the night before in Lower Rossland. Minutes later, another resident phoned in a sighting and, at 8:45, Beetlestone found and shot a cougar. "It was thin and had some sort of illness,"...

The Recreation Department is working on the Spring Brochure, which will be available mid-March and cover the months of April, May and June.   If you’re new to town and interested in teaching a hobby or skill that you enjoy, please contact us to discuss opportunities for running a program.  If you represent a local organization...

Ah, hockey - Canada’s national game. And with hockey, as with many competitive sports, comes something else: great rivalries. You know, Montreal and Boston, Montreal and Toronto, provincial rivals Edmonton and Calgary. And then there are the lesser known rivalries from days gone by that were just as contentious in their time,...

The following is the text of an application made by Kathy Moore for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Award. The nomination was endorsed by Senator Nancy Greene last year.  Says Moore, "In her youth, Al coached and inspired her. Unfortunately Al did not win. I would like to submit his name to Rossland City Council for consideration...

  Heritage Week  2013 will be celebrated across the Province from February 18 - 23 with a theme of Heritage Homes and Neighborhoods.  Rossland has many homes today that date back to the late 1890’s and early 1900’s when this community was a world renowned gold mining center.   Homes were often grouped in distinct neighborhoods...

It was standing room only in council chambers yesterday evening—crammed on all sides of council and spilling out the hallways—as the Kootenay Columbia Trail Society (KCTS) presented to council about the value they bring to Rossland.A draft financial document used in an exercise by council to consider future tax implications...

Staff have calculated the tax implications for four scenarios in which Rossland funds School District No. 20 (SD20) as part of a larger deal to secure K-12 schooling in Rossland. The SD20 board recently voted against K-12 schooling in Rossland, and will likely give third reading to a resolution for K-9 at RSS with the closure...

Dear Editor, On Tuesday February 12, 2013 District School board 20 conducted 2nd reading and sent for 3rd reading a bylaw to close Mclean Elementary School and convert Rossland Secondary School to K to 9 and bus years 10-12 to Crowe in Trail. As a concerned resident of School Board District 20 I would like to draw your attention...

Rossland's Sustainability Commission (SC) has completed both a comprehensive inventory of family friendly community assets and an open-ended, online public consultation to ask community members what makes Rossland family friendly and what could make it even better. The process identified more than 300 family friendly assets...

The Recreation Department is working on the Spring Brochure, which will be available mid-March and cover the months of April, May and June.   If you’re new to town and interested in teaching a hobby or skill that you enjoy, please contact us to discuss opportunities for running a program.  If you represent a local organization...