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The Kootenay Lake school district has released a breakdown of six-year completion rates at its Nelson high school, after figures from the Ministry of Education released late last year showed slumping rates around SD8.

Site manager Bill Kootnikoff leads a group of Grade 5 students from Blewett Elementary on a tour of the Nelson transfer station.

After a school year full of new discoveries, honing skills and exploring techniques, the current crop of Kootenay School of the Arts students bring the sum of their toil to the public at their annual year end shows.

Capitol Theatre manager Neil Harrower (left) and local signmaker Brian McLachlan celebrate the installation of the new marquee Thursday morning.

Tuesday’s federal all-candidates forum in Nelson will feature some one-on-one debate.

If an amendment to the city’s fire prevention bylaw makes it past third reading and adoption, residents looking to add flames to their yard maintenance routine will pay $10 for a permit.

Jamie Hertz found himself in the bottom four of Top Chef Canada’s premiere, but will be part of episode two.

Although he’s on the federal reelection trail, BC Southern Interior New Democrat MP Alex Atamanenko has paused to endorse Mike Farnworth for the provincial NDP leadership.

Nelson’s John Craig has reached tsunami-stricken Onagawa, Japan. The community, which was devastated last month, is forever tied to Nelson as the place where Lt. Robert Hampton Gray died at the end of World War II.

In an age where reaching your 25th wedding anniversary is considered a rare feat, Ed and Margaret John are giving new meaning to the phrase long-term relationship.