The Grand Forks Search and Rescue team has been left with limited resources after a thief made off with 12 radios, their batteries and six tracking units. "It's the most important stuff," said Barry Savitskoff, GFSAR search manager, on the importance of the equipment. The equipment is used to communicate to their command...

The Kettle River Community Garden will soon be showing off how to use drip irrigation to save water and grow healthier plants, thanks to a grant from the Rotary Club of Grand Forks and the Rotary Foundation. The grant enables the Community Garden to install a drip irrigation system and demonstrate water conservation techniques...

Hi Folks! We’re at the midway point of the year, so I’ve put together a list of the most popular books and DVDs of 2013 (by number of times they were checked out from the library): Most popular Books of 2013 Shiver (Karen Robards) Notorious Nineteen (Janet Evanovich) 419 (Will Ferguson) Calculated in Death (J.D. Robb) Six...

The Boundary Women’s Coalition announces the addition of two new programs; Stopping the Violence Counselling Program and Outreach Services. The services are free and confidential. Ciel Sander is the new Stopping the Violence Counsellor in this area.  She provides a safe and confidential place to talk for women who have...

The fourth annual Illuminesence Wellness and Artisan was held July 13 with about 50 people checking out what locals have to offer.  Massage therapists, astrology readers, tarot card readers and yoga instructors were just some of the booths that made up the 10 vendors at the fair.  The fair was smaller than hoped, but visitors...

Greenwood held their annual Founder's Day this weekend, to celebrate their 116th birthday. The two-day event had festivities that included a pancake breakfast, parade, live music, petting zoo and tons of vendors. ...

Organic gardeners share one challenge that has many faces – how to nurse newly emerged seedlings along to the point when they are strong enough to defend themselves. Because seedlings are so tender and tasty, and low to the ground, they are easy pickings for a host of animals, from the very tiny to the enormous. Everything ...

When she stood on stage at the Chicago Pro Bodybuilding Show, Nancy Clark was nervous for the first time in a long time. "I thought I was having a heart attack," she said, laughing at the memory. "I had to remind myself to breathe." Thankfully, she was only on the stage for a few moments during the preliminary show but when...

Fifty-five years ago, in September 1958, the Boundary Historical Society (BHS), then only 7 years old, published its first “report”, a collection of stories and articles documenting the early days of towns and camps throughout the Boundary district of southern British Columbia. These first histories and reminiscences were...

In a recent column about sediment I noted that fecal coliform bacteria had been rising in the Kettle River at Midway. Some readers asked me to spell out what that means. Fecal coliform bacteria are a large group of microscopic organisms which live in the intestines of warm-blooded animals, including humans, cattle, and deer....