The Boundary region has come together over a common concern: the Kettle River. Over the last few years, residents of the Boundary have become more aware about the state of the Kettle River and its tributaries, especially with diminishing flows during the summer months and the quality of the water. The state of the watershed […]

 A 24-year-old Castlegar man arrested charged with two counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual interference, one count of possession of child pornography and one count of possession of a prohibited weapon (brass knuckles), has been arrested once again, this time for breaching the conditions of his release. The man was arrested on Sept. […]

It was announced today that “more than 1,400 B.C. parent advisory councils (PACs) will share $11 million in community gaming grants this school year to support activities for children, “wrote Rich Coleman, Housing and Social Development Minister and Margaret MacDiarmid, Minister of Education in a press release.  "To recognize...

The latest Facilities Report in the Planning For the Future process, as distributed at Monday's Open Board meeting, contains four options—all of which involve the bussing of Rossland's secondary students down to JL Crowe and the closure of RSS in 2012. The plan calls for the district to: Configure MacLean Elementary as K – ...

The Rossland Skateboarding Association (RSA) is back in action this fall, hoping to first secure a consensus around the location of a permanent home for the proposed skate park—and then start building it.   While council did grant the RSA the northwest portion of the Emcon lot for a skateboard park nine months ago, it was by...

Hello Rosslanders, Last night at the school board meeting, the school district 20 staff presented the next stage of Planning for the Future — a facilities report for 2010-2015 (attached). They state that the draft facilities report is the results of analysis the staff has been conducting over the last few months, and is...

Mega-forest fires, torrential flooding rain, scorching heat, drought and food shortages. Sound like an end-of-the-world style horror film? Maybe. But these things could also be looming in Rossland’s future should climate change continue to have its way. For most, dramatic climate change is no longer a matter of if, but when....

 Castlegar will not escape unscathed from the school district’s (SD 20’s) proposed changes as set out in a report delivered at the school board’s regular meeting on Monday. According to the proposed plan, Castlegar Primary School will be closed and re-purposed, Blueberry Creek Community School and the Online Learning Centre will be closed.   Online […]

It is quite possible that, with the help of some good old down-home mechanical know how and gumption, the whole fall-from-the-Garden-of-Eden thing might have been averted on a technicality: “Whoa, whoa- we didn’t eat from the Tree of Knowledge. We juiced it.”   Apples are a funny fruit. Alternatively sweet, tart, mealy, wormy,...

We often hear about exactly why and how Rossland should or should not “grow”. Perhaps where some camps diverge from one another is on just what growth means.   Does growing Rossland purely mean an increase in population? Geographical area? Economic wealth? Sustainability? Or perhaps 'growth' also means growing wiser, doing ...