Summer in the Mountain Kingdom heralds the arrival of all kinds of fun stuff: open patios at local restaurants, museum and mine tours, snow-free (hopefully) hiking trails, and our own local musical theatre production, The Gold Fever Follies.  This ever-changing, dynamic show, consisting of stories loosely based on actual historical events in Rossland’s history, will […]

 Is it a communal kitty litter? A poor man's beach?   Nope – the giant sandbox to be erected in the parking lot of the Pioneer Arena is neither ... it's another opportunity to promote public art, the downtown core, and Castlegar as a whole.   Sculpturewalk's Pat Field says 30 to 35 cubic yards of a special sand/clay mixture...

 Local hockey fans can now track more than just one Castlegar hockey hero in the NHL – the Oilers’ Shawn Horcoff will now have to share the local limelight with Luke Walker, 20, who was fifth-round draft choice for the Colorado Avalanche. Walker is following in the footsteps of hockey dad Gordie Walker, who played […]

 A hateful and dangerous gang of vandals did their best to get a riot started in Toronto during the G20 summit and, even though they torched cars, smashed windows, insulted and attacked police and did their best to bully innocent spectators, no one was seriously hurt. This group of malcontents are casting a cowardly disrepute […]

 In times past, people could protect themselves from computer viruses by staying out of the “questionable” corners of the internet. While this hasn’t been true for years now, many people still believe that watching where they surf will keep their computers un-bugged. Antivirus company AVAST! just released an analysis of infected websites that should, once […]

The B.C. Ministry of Education has released this year's Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) marks, and School District 20 (SD 20) results show local student performance reflects a slightly lower percentage of students exceeding expectations and slightly higher percentage of students not yet meeting curriculum standards.   For...

 Call volume at the Castlegar Fire Department is once again on the rise – but that's nothing new, according to Fire Chief Gerry Rempel. Rempel said the department fielded 283 calls for service by the end of May 2010, as compared to 226 in the same time frame last year, which represents a 56-call hike. Rempel added, though, ...

 Several hundred people attended a Celebration of Life for Zach Larsen on Saturday at the Pentecostal New Life Assembly Church. I wouldn’t normally write a story like this in the first person – it’s not about me, after all – but I tried and tried to write it as an impartial observer and just couldn’t […]

 One Castlegar man has pled guilty to break-and-enter charges and two other men will soon be facing charges in connection with a break-and-enter at Martech Electrical Systems Ltd. On Woodland Drive on June 21. Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew said 40-year-old Michael Dykstra pled guilty on his first appearance and was sentenced...

Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) is hosting the 2010 Columbia Basin Symposium “Shaping our Future Together: Take Action – Build Partnerships – Strengthen Communities” on Oct. 22-24 in Revelstoke, and residents are being encouraged to mark the date on their calendars.  The event seeks to engage key leaders and residents active in ...