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A local courier is warning South Nelson residents about a bat that scratched him last week — which he worries could be rabid.

By a stroke of luck, a North Shore resident helping with earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in Japan met two Nelson homestay students. Mary Nishio recounts the devastation she witnessed at Onagawa.

The Regional District of Central Kootenay has issued a water conservation notice for Ymir due to spring run off adversely affecting the Quartz Creek intake.

At least one of the grizzly bears spotted around Nelson over the last week has been relocated before, but the local conservation officer can’t confirm whether it’s one of the animals seen in the city last year.

Nelson’s most famous chef received orders to pack his knives and go in episode five of the series, after making two appetizers described by judges as “like cat food” and “not bad, but not great” — possibly the nicest thing they’ve said to him all season.

Renovations and upgrades to the performance space at Selkirk College’s Tenth Street Campus remain on track for a mid-summer completion.

Miranda Sherell conducted a massive taste test with her peers and found colours affect how we taste. Emma Bohri investigated the impact to-go coffee cups have on our planet. Both Trafalgar students are now off to Toronto to match their experiments against kids from across the nation

A rezoning application that would allow Kootenay Christian Fellowship put low cost housing and church facilities in the former Savoy Hotel has made it past first and second reading at Nelson city council, and given those behind the project the “courage” to move ahead.

The president of Nelson’s disc golf society says city councillors who object to their proposal to build a course are doing so without knowing all the facts.

City workers planted the first of many new trees slated for Lions Park last week. The park’s Lombardy poplars, now at the end of their lifespan, are being replaced with maple, birch and Douglas fir.