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Nelson will soon have an official leg of the Trans-Canada Trail, after city council gave its blessing to a route that would take hikers and bikers through the city’s downtown and along the waterfront.

Mark your calendars — Nelson’s Regional Sports Council is planning a party.

Members of the West Kootenay Women’s Association braved the winds on the Orange Bridge Tuesday to show their support for women working for peace in Afghanistan and the Congo. The bridge gathering was one of many happening across the world on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day.

The West Kootenay EcoSociety’s Wednesday farmers market will return to Baker Street this summer.

The taxman doesn’t use email. That’s the first and biggest tip-off that what looks like an authentic message from Canada Revenue Agency is in fact a scam.

After a crowded public hearing Monday, Nelson city council signed off on an Official Community Plan amendment which would allow for the eventual construction of a mixed use neighborhood around the Granite Pointe Golf Club.

More than 50 people came out to look at Nelson’s draft Waterfront and Downtown Master Plan Wednesday night.

Meadow Creek Cedar has been effectively shut down after WorkSafeBC ordered the mill to stop using all machinery requiring safe guarding. It follows an accident last Friday in which a worker lost parts of three fingers.

Two Nelson companies are included in WorkSafeBC’s enforcement report for 2010.

Sixth in a series of West Kootenay-related lists