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Justice system faces more funding restraint, but Attorney General predicts reforms will ease case backlog, waits.

A Guatemalan school has a concrete yard, and dozens of students have new school supplies, toys and vitamins, thanks to a group of Creston Valley residents who visited Azucenas, Guate-mala, in February...

It’s been six months since council turned down Kevin Fairweather’s application to rezone 2530 St. Paul to allow a duplex, instead of a single family home with an attached suite as presently zoned. The application is back on the table and a public hearing has been scheduled for May 9.

Monday was a day of progress in council. One bylaw was adopted — an increase of the development setback around Topping Creek to 30 metres — and a bylaw to control wildlife attractants sped through first, second, and third reading so it can be presented to the public now, as the bears wake up.

Several citizens appeared at council to express their support for Coun. Kathy Moore’s motion to form a select committee of expert locals to help oversee the Columbia-Washington project, even though Moore deferred the motion until the next regular meeting on April 25.

Get your questions ready, an all-candidates meeting has been organized for April 27 at the Miners’ Hall to give Rosslanders an opportunity to meet all the federal MP candidates running in our riding before we cast our votes on May 2.

Spring is in the air, but the first fragrances to freshen your nose won’t be cherry blossoms. To help clear the city of doggie nuggets and the flotsam and jetsam discarded by careless people over the winter, encased in snow until now, the city has organized a whole week of fun-filled and bag-filling activities for “Pitch-in Rossland!” starting on April 16 and running until April 24.