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Museum and Larry's trails may soon be history

With Trails day going on this weekend, some folks around town have been asking about just when the Museum trail and portion of Larry's trail that have been closed for the past four years are going to re-open.  Initially the section of Teck land in question was closed in 2006 to some evaluations of the geo-technical hazards ...

Taking a cue from CBC, Rossland Reads ramps up

With the amount of rain and dark days we've been receiving this spring, it's been a great time to catch up on our reading. As we (fingers crossed) start moving our reading locales out from under warm blankets to beaches, patios and sunny spots of grass, the Rossland Library has lined up a buffet of books for us. This summer...

On a wing and a prayer...err ding: Get your retail therapy on this weekend

What do you do to boost retail and economic activity during the shoulder season? In Rossland you just wing it. Julie Parker over at the Rossland Chamber of Commerce has been working hard coordinating the spring shopping soiree, putting in the hours to make sure that this Saturday's annual Wind Ding celebration is a...flying...

Food, unlike money, actually does grow on trees!

 Way back in the day, when I was a kid, it was a big deal in our family when the West Coast Seafood truck stopped in town, bearing with it a variety of frozen fish, theoretically from the West Coast.  There was an ad in the paper announcing the day the truck would be in town, my mom would make a note of it, my brothers and ...

No more Mr. Nice Guy...no, really: City promises yet again to enforce water meters

Eight years after bylaws were put in place requiring commercial and multi-family buildings in Rossland to install water meters, the city is done asking politely for compliance. Following council approval of the recommendation this past Tuesday night, city staff will be contacting the remaining commercial building owners without...

OP/ED: Heroes and villians in the face of an environmental disaster

The oil spill that now jeopardizes the entire ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico, and potentially beyond, is a chilling reminder that all is not well with our planet. And what’s actually worse: the amount of oil gushing from the seemingly impossible-to-stop deep-sea oil well or the complacent attitude taken toward the spill by...

Commuter Challenge: Is Rossland up for it?

Get your bike geared up, your walking shoes broken in, and start mapping out your active transportation routes to work as the Commuter Challenge returns May 30th. Last year Nelson jumped on board the Commuter Challenge in a big way, logging the highest level of participation in the small/mid size city category. The West...

Columbia Avenue rebuild: What does your ideal downtown look like?

Ever walked around Rossland and thought, 'wouldn’t it be nice to have a bench here, maybe some flowers over here, a nice sidewalk cafe on this side of the street and maybe rearrange the parking on the other?' Of course you have. Well, it’s not every day that Joe and Jill Canuck get the opportunity have real input on the design...

Scribbling for Scratch

Two young wordsmiths from RSS have scribbled their way into Scratch magazine and placed themselves one step closer to a $1,000 grand prize. Amid tales of vampires in a Kootenay high school and love stories from the open road, the prose of Aanika Ruutopold and Julia Mason has made it to the top ten in this year’s Scratch Writing...

Commuter Challenge: Is Rossland up for it?

Get your bike geared up, your walking shoes broken in, and start mapping out your active transportation routes to work as the Commuter Challenge returns May 30th. Last year Nelson jumped on board the Commuter Challenge in a big way, logging the highest level of participation in the small/mid size city category. The West...

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