The Kootenay's First Annual Honey show was recently held by the Kootenay Local Agricultural Society. Fifteen different honeys were submitted by beekeepers and judged for two categories, best colour and best taste, by the beekeeping fraternity present. Local Rossland avid gardeners and apiarists, Joe Bye and Mary Myers were ...

Rossland's Wannes Luppens recently completed a 25 day, 1400km journey down the Fraser River, from its headwaters near Mt. Robson to its mouth in Vancouver. Travelling by voyageur canoe and raft, he was one of seven participants on the Sustainable Living Leadership Program, organized annually by the Rivershed Society of BC. ...

You can be a really busy little bee here in Rossland if you are a kid; there are so many activities, both recreational and artsy, to choose from to enroll your child in for fun, educational and social times. And Rossland’s own dynamic acting duo, G. Michael and Alicia Gray, who relocated to Rossland from busy Vancouver a...

CAO Victor Kumar officially passes the torch to incoming CAO/CFO Cecile Arnott on Monday, Oct. 1—although he remains employed until the end of the year—and some council members took the opportunity at Kumar's final regular council meeting on Sept. 17 to offer their thanks. Members of council and Rossland city staff joined...

Rossland has applied for a grant to cover up to 75 per cent of the cost of two "Level 2" electric car charging stations as part of a provincial initiative to increase the reach of electric vehicles across the province.The move was recommended to council by the Sustainability Commission (SC) at the SC's July 18 meeting, and ...

Coun. Kathy Moore has asked since July for an update on the estimated cost to Rossland taxpayers for the downtown renovation, but neither those estimates nor an explanation of how the expenses will be financed were provided at the Sept. 17 regular council meeting.Assuming short term borrowing and using confidential cost reports...

This week is the week of the first layer of asphalt on Columbia Ave! Finally, we are heading towards having smooth hard surfaces to walk and drive on again; smoother than ever before, in fact. The second lift of asphalt will be next week. We can expect to see street lights and bus stops going in after paving sometime, so...

Personally, I believe this system is a good thing, especially for grade 12s. In a year we will be adults and will be forced to take our lives into our own hands and motivate ourselves, because nobody else will care. With the old system, we would be completely unprepared for life outside of high school, relying on teachers and...

Council made an in camera decision on Monday evening to spend about $170,000 to connect all the municipal buildings—excluding the museum—and the downtown core to the Columbia Basin Broadband Corporations (CBBC) network.At the beginning of the year, Mark Halwa, CBBC’s chief operating officer, presented to city staff the...

Dear Laurie Charlton, I write in response to your recent condemnation of council's process in hiring our new CAO/CFO. I've added some headings to break things up. Yup, council screwed upI agree. Council made a big mistake when they decided to keep CAO Victor Kumar's resignation confidential, limited their job search to a...