Grade 8 girls enjoy a successful Last Spike
The 2012 Grade 8 Girl's "Last Spike" Volleyball Tournament was another success. Revelstoke split their team into two equal squads on Saturday. Revelstoke Avalanche A finished...
New principal appointed to RSS
School District 19 has reached beyond British Columbia’s mountains to the Prairies to find the new principal of Revelstoke Secondary School. Superintendent Anne Cooper announced...
Science Experiments
Preamble In 1964, a gym with change rooms, plus administration area, were added between the former Mountain View School and Revelstoke Secondary School, and the...
City, BC Transit seek YOUR input on local bus service
If you think transit service in Revelstoke can be improved you should attend next Thursday’s open house about the future of our public transportation...
Kokanee salmon numbers at their lowest level since 1988
By David F. Rooney Kokanee salmon numbers are at their lowest level since 1988 but no one knows why, says a BC government biologist. “We did...
Charges pending in single-vehicle accident
A single-vehicle accident early Thursday morning closed the Trans-Canada Highway in Rogers Pass for several hour and put a tractor-trailer driver in hospital here...
A better future begins with honest appraisal of current financial situation
In my last MLA report, which was the first in a multi-part series on provincial budgeting, I laid out a number of methods that...
“… and now, the Aporkalypse”
When the Mayans predicted the end of the world in 2012, were they attempting to tell us it would be the end of the...
Kamloops Storm blows in, rains on the Grizzlies’ parade
By David F. Rooney People hoped the Grizzlies would battle their way to a victory against the Kamloops Storm on Tuesday, but it was not...
Buying time for our mountain caribou one cow and calf at a time
By David F. Rooney Some people think the dwindling herds of mountain caribou are doomed to extirpation, but a small band of biologists think they...