Hone your photographic skills through this shootout at 3 Valley Gap

Advertising Feature By David F. Rooney If you yearn to be a model or fashion photographer you can explore your potential through a series of workshops...

Teachers ratify agreement with government

Members of the BC Teachers’ Federation have voted 75% to ratify the agreement reached on Tuesday, with the government’s bargaining agent, the BC Public...

Red Cross accepting help for Sicamous flood victims

Just because you no longer see anything on TV anymore doesn’t mean the washout and flood in Sicamous is over and done with. Areas of...

Ready for some great times? Canada Day and Timber Day offer fun for families

By David F. Rooney  Break out your red-and-white duds and oil up your chainsaw — It’s time for Canada Day and Timber Day. This week will...

The Eagle River Expedition: boys will be boys

What were we thinking? Were my friends naïve, or was I as convincing as Tom Sawyer? For it was my idea, I’m sure. Mother...

2012 Street Fest gets a youthful kickoff

By David F. Rooney Street Fest 2012 kicked off on Thursday evening with performances by a raft of talented local youth performers. They included Hailey...

True patriot love

This weekend we celebrate the 145th birthday or our great nation of Canada.  We’ve come a long way kids!  A recent survey by Ipsos-Reid...

Closed for good but forever in our memories

By David F. Rooney The sound of children's voices will never again echo in the halls and classrooms of Mountain View and Mount Begbie. The...

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The Revelstoke & District Humane Society, unhappy that the Columbia Basin Trust’s Community Initiatives Program refused its request for a grant, warned Council that,...