The "CCCs"—Service Capacity Connection Charges—suggested by city staff in 2011 to replace DCCs—Development Cost Charges—appear to have fallen off the table, replaced instead by "flexible" negotiations."I am very curious about the Capacity Connection Charges," Coun. Kathy Moore said during members' reports at last week's regular...

Dear editor, When people give of their time, their energy and their heart, they deserve special recognition and a personal thank you.  The residents of Rossland and the Canadian Cancer Society volunteers who sold daffodils, daffodil pins and went door to door exemplify those people. The Rossland Unit of the Canadian Cancer ...

The Miners' Hall may soon have a "green room" above the stage thanks to the efforts and fundraising of the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture (RCAC) volunteers.Renate Fleming of the RCAC explained that a green room "is the place where performers get ready for performance and where they spend time between performances to ...

Rossland is now at the peak of this summer’s construction.  We will see another big week with the area being worked on spanning most of our downtown.  Asphalt milling will be taking place on the South side of Columbia as well as Washington.  The waterline is being installed from Queen to St. Paul and should be finished this...

Dear editor, The Western Front must have looked like this.  Earth and rocks, blasted, torn and scattered; pools of murky water filling every rain-soaked depression; the accumulated detritus of hard fought conflict, here piled high in tangled heaps of twisted metal, there semi-submerged in the clinging mud like dead, wasted ...

Parents, students, and teachers gathered at the RSS gymnasium on Tuesday evening to learn more about the new system of "inquiry-based learning in a blended environment" that RSS plans to implement across its Grade 10 to 12 programs in the 2012-2013 school year.The new model is characterized by flexible timetables, a variety...

The potential for broadband Internet access in Rossland has excited a lot of public support. Consequently, council recently directed city staff to carefully consider the options tabled by the Columbia Basin Broadband Corporation (CBBC), but staff's report won't come back to council until September.The regular council meeting...

The volunteers who run the Thrift Store have recently forged new partnerships to re-purpose about three-quarters of the junk "donations" that used to end up in the dumpster out back, but the Thrift Store ladies still have a few simple guidelines for donors to help make the job easier.Before now the Thrift Store could only...

Again, this week’s downtown ‘look’ will be very similar to last week’s. More blasting took place on Monday, June 25th, to remove bedrock discovered earlier in the project and to make room for the installation of water and storm systems to St Paul from Washington St. Copcan will be giving their crew a well-deserved break of ...

The visitor centre issue piqued council's interest, particularly as the museum committee continues to deliberate how to revitalize the future of the museum and the associated visitor centre. Coun. Kathy Moore said the "skewed" data from just picking up museum traffic in the summer was "a real problem." "It would really help...