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Dragons, lions and martial arts aside, when Pauline Bao talks about celebrating Chinese New Year it’s easy to draw parallels to a North American Christmas.

As other rates went up, the executive director of Nelson’s Touchstones told city council she’s planning to drop ticket prices for adults at the museum and art gallery.

Issie McLaughlin had lived in Nelson for more than 30 years and West Kootenay all his life. But when he began losing his way during drives around town, his family initially wrote it off as a sign of aging — he was in his 80s, after all.

The Slocan Valley Legion branch plans to move the cenotaph in Slocan City to a more prominent location this spring, but not everyone is happy about it.

After three years without a contract, an arbitrator has awarded Nelson’s firefighters a 24.5 per cent wage increase, retroactive to the start of 2008.