The fissures between area communities over what to do with our schools made themselves visible Monday evening at the SD20 School Board meeting. Fiery and emotional rhetoric came from trustees and the public alike as the board voted , 5-3, to delay public meetings in January and re-frame its discussions around educational...

Following three design charettes hosted by the city’s planning department over the past year, the City has now come back with its report and recommendations. Looking at the stretch of Columbia Avenue between the Miners' Hall and St. Paul Street, the intent is to modify and enhance our downtown's amenity appeal while improving...

Our downtown core’s century-old infrastructure may soon be getting an upgrade and a facelift to the tune of an estimated six million dollar Columbia Avenue rebuild project if the public agrees with the city’s proposed borrowing process. That said, the project, originally slated for 2010, will now likely be bumped to the summer...

Fresh from the stale surroundings of tourist-laden Cancun, Mexico, Sustainability Commission member Aaron Cosbey checked in with the Telegraph this week to bring us up to speed on the environmental side of the local sustainability coin.   While ‘fatigued’ may not be the best descriptor to characterize Cosbey’s post-conference...

In what seems to be becoming a new annual Christmas tradition in town, Rossland City Council has shown its support for a skatepark again this year in its final council meeting before Christmas. In a 3-2 vote, council supported a recommendation to allow the Rossland Skateboard Association (RSA) the use of city photocopying...

In underworld circles, a blackjack is a small, typically leather, sack roughly the size of a small purse or ankle-high sock. Stuffed with ball bearings, small stones or semi-precious stones for the fashionable underling, it’s normally a DIY weapon fashioned in mind of sneaking up behind someone and K.O-ing them with any one...

Oh, sometimes there is nothing better and more Rossland-ish than sitting out on the sidewalk in front of the Sunshine Cafe, enjoying a nice sandwich and a cool drink, chatting with friends and passersby, meeting some convivial dogs - all accompanied by the idyllic soundtrack of DT Chambers and other assorted semis trundling...

The Black Jack racers had another strong showing this past weekend as the Haywood NORAM series made a stop in Sovereign Lake. Peter Locke picked up his second victory of the season, this time in the 1km juvenile boys classic.    As the team returns home for the NorAm at Black Jack this weekend coach Dave Wood is pleased with...

There’s a storm brewing up at the Black Jack ski club and not just a tempest of the falling white flake variety. A veritable perfect storm of events if have set the non-profit ski club up for what is already a record breaking year. The combination great early snow conditions, a new groomer, the relocation of the continent's...

 A common theme heard over and over again whenever conversations shift towards taxes, services and growth or recession in Rossland is the idea that we must either raise taxes or cut services. Depending on which side of the fence you're on, the result of either is likely pay more to maintain the quality of life we enjoy or see...