If you have been waiting to go out to see a movie in a theatre in Nelson, keep waiting.With the lease for the Civic Theatre space terminated three months ago, now there is a real danger of Nelson’s only public movie house being closed for quite some time. City manager Kevin Cormack said they are undertaking a review of the ...

By Brittany GilchristGoing, gone. Tickets for the largest music festival in the West Kootenay region are sold out.The 2011 Shambhala Music Festival has sold out in record time. Online tickets sold out on May 12, with authorized ticket stores selling out over the course of the following 15 days.The last store with tickets...

The West Kootenay Herb Growers Association based in Edgewood will receive $3,500 to continue with its agroforestry project to cultivate and harvest hawthorn. The targeted funding comes from Canada and B.C. in support of business development, innovation, food safety, and sustainability under the Growing Forward Agreement. A ...

Laura (Dolly Cartlidge) Leach lived in Nelson for 28 years before moving to United States, Missouri, in 1987. Leach, the daughter of Ted and Evelyn Cartlidge of Balfour, graduated from L.V. Rogers High School in Nelson in 1971. She married husband Mike in 1986.She returned to school, graduating from Central Methodist University...

By Fiona BrownBorn-and-raised Nakusp artist Kate Tupper opens her latest exhibition, Full Metal Basket, at Oxygen Art Centre this Friday (7 p.m.). Kate is a female tradesperson – a welder and fabricator – and a mother who tells her story in the weaving of her metal baskets. “I have built a wall to keep my feminine emotions ...

For the last five months students of Slocan Valley schools have been creating blocks.Not just any blocks, mind you, but creations that represent their identity, their family ancestry and what makes their community school and where they live special. On the afternoon of Wednesday, June 1 at the Slocan Park Hall Field, some...

By Catherine Hargreaves, Nelson Grans to GransSeven cast-off pews from the Baptist Church are being transformed by local artists while five well-used chairs from Willow point Church are being reinvented by talented teens at the Nelson Youth Centre.The public is invited to vote on the People’s Choice Award for the best pew...

Two Nelson girls dominated the podium at the 50th Canada-wide Science Fair recently in Toronto, bringing home gold and bronze in the junior category.Emma Borhi and Miranda Sherell of Trafalgar Junior Secondary competed against hundreds of the country’s brightest young scientific minds for medals, cash awards, scholarships and...

To the Editor:Parents campaigning for a third French Immersion classroom at Trafalgar Middle School were outraged to find that the document entitled French Immersion Discussion, produced by senior management of School District No. 8, contained inaccuracies. Parents’ suspicions were further raised when they gathered information...

Brooklyn Earick with DJ Rhapsody @ The Royal on Baker, Friday, May 27, 9:30 p.m. Tickets $5 at the door. Brooklyn Earick is a high energy DJ from Bellefontaine, Ohio.  Starting out with vinyl and turntables, Earick has now progressed to music making by creating his own edits, remixes and original productions. During his live...