July 4th may soon take on a new meaning in Rossland, as the day that the Rossland Foodies got their independence and opened a new farmers' market in town. While there won’t likely be fireworks, waving of the stars and stripes and parades down main street there very likely will be an explosion of fresh fruit and vegetables, ...

Imagine waking up early on a sunny winter’s morning, a fresh 15 centimetres of Kootenay powder on the ground. A perfect day to head up to Red and make some turns. Putting your boots on in the comfort and warmth of your house and strolling either down, up, or across the hill to Columbia Avenue you breeze right past your...

The broken down Regional Recreation agreement has reared its head again this week, and this time it would seem the citizens and businesses of Trail and Rossland are the ones losing out. Stemming from a May 1st letter sent from Rossland Mayor Greg Granstrom to Trail’s Mayor Dieter Boggs inviting the City of Trail to participate...

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is part of the BC Poverty Reduction Committee, which has been steadily gathering steam as we get closer to the election. There are now 281 organizations signed on to the open letter to BC political parties. The campaign has been calling for all the parties to agree to implement...

In an ambitious eight page agenda for this week’s city council meeting a street corner in Pinewood garnered the most attention. A standing room only crowd (there are only seats for about ten people in the gallery) gathered, largely to hear and comment on a development variance permit for the Evergreen Ridge subdivision.   The...

Teck may be on the hook for millions of dollars for the large spill of lead and hydrofluoric acid from its Trail plant into the Columbia River in the spring of 2008. The spill, which occurred at approximately 5:30 PM on May 28th, 2008, was attributed to a heat exchanger in the lead refinery which failed, allowing electrolyte...

A Happy New Year from the Telegraph to you and yours. For the last week it seems as though Rossland has been shut down; we've scrambled over snowy hill and icy dale searching for news, but news seems to have gone skiing. We found a couple of parties, but nothing anyone would appreciate being featured on the front page of the...

The first major snowfall of the season hit the Kootenays last week with up to forty centimetres being reported at higher elevations. While it’s not out of the norm for winter storm cycles to get fired up this late into December, the big snowfall has cranked up the itch to strap on skis and snowboards and get out on the local...

The Olympic Flame will pass through Rossland on its way towards the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The 2010 Olympic Torch Relay will begin its 106-day Canadian journey on October 30, 2009 and is scheduled to pass through Rossland on January 24, 2010. The Flame’s pan-Canadian journey will culminate on February 12, 2010...

Even as a kind of cosmic alignment seems to be occurring south of the border something similar may be taking place here in tiny Rossland. In the United States, the threat of economic and ecological collapse are being countered by the choice of a new president, Barack Hussein Obama, who represents a progressive, deracinated ...