Not only is Justin Hines a world-class Canadian singer and song writer, he has a unique connection to Grand Forks — his wife Savanna is from here. This special connection is giving our small town a very unusual opportunity to see such a famous and inspiring performer up close and personal. Fans of folk-pop, inspirational […]

Council recently considered rezoning applications that exposed some of the flaws in the zoning bylaw and the process used to consider those applications.  One application sought to amend the zoning of a property on Black Diamond Drive from R-1 (Residential Single Detached) to R-1I (Detached Infill Residential).   The only...

Early bird registration deadline for youth soccer is Wednesday, February 29!  If you have a youth in the house who would like to play soccer this Spring, don’t delay registering them with Kootenay South Soccer.  The closing date for registration is March 16, 2012.  Log on to www.kootenaysouthsoccer.com to register.   There ...

By Bruce Fuhr, The Nelson Daily Man that’s playoff hockey — not! In a game that most definitely had coaches Frank Maida and Steve Junker searching the trainer’s room for bottles of Alka-Seltzer to help cure strong cases of acid indigestion, the Castlegar Rebels somehow managed to pull out a 7-6 Kootenay International Junior Hockey […]

Last week’s provincial  budget includes two items that will directly impact municipalities: the increase in Medical Services Plan (MSP) premiums, and the creation of a new Auditor General for Local Government. MSP will increase local government expenses Increases to MSP premiums will amount to about $60 per year per person. This cost will be passed […]

RCMP report and internet / telephone scam is making its way around the Village of Nakusp. Police report a Nakusp citizen recently applied for and was offered a job to be a Mystery Shopper for Winners Merchants International L.P.  The citizen was sent a cheque and they were asked to cash it at a local […]

RCMP in Castlegar is conducting a full investigation into a damaged Fortis BC fiber optics cable on right-a-way near a substation next to the Tarry’s Fire Hall across from Kalesnikoff Lumber at 2103 Highway 3A. Sometime in the past few days a coiled fiber optics cable attached to the side off of a power pole […]

By Bruce Fuhr, The Nelson Daily It was a Murphy’s Law second period for the Nelson Leafs. Whatever the Green and White touched, or didn’t touch, turned to . . . well, I think Leaf hockey fans understand. The Castlegar Rebels exploded for five second period goal en route to a 5-3 Murdoch Division semi […]

Students and staff at L.V Rogers High School plan to join tens of thousands across Canada as part of “Pink Shirt Day” Wednesday. Pink Shirt Day is a nationwide movement that originated at Central Kings Rural High School in Cambridge, Nova Scotia more than a decade ago. There, two students witnessed a bully harassing and […]

Even police are describing an arrest in Nelson this afternoon as “bizarre”. “On Monday afternoon, Nelson Police responded to a report from a woman of an intruder in her Fairview residence,” said Nelson Police Department’s Sgt. Howie Grant. “When officers arrived on scene they found a 21-year-old Nelson man sitting at a computer desk in […]