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City council expenses topped $60,000 in 2015. The $61,873.44 total does not include the $2,000 a month Mayor Nolan Crouse is paid by the Capital Region Board as chair. That fee appears on city expense sheets but is actually paid by the board.

All 14 members of the City of St. Albert and Sturgeon County councils will help oversee the work on the joint boundary growth study. The study was announced in January. More details were hammered out at the Feb.

Paul Shelemey, the well-known and well-respected financial adviser whose business just celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, lost a two-month battle with esophageal cancer last Thursday. He died in his home while surrounded by family.

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St. Albert MP Michael Cooper says the parliamentary report on physician-assisted dying, released last week, doesn’t go far enough in some places and goes too far in others.

Word on Perron Street is there a new cat in town. Gracie Jane Genereux, a long-time mixed media artist, opened Gracie Jane’s Art Gallery and Lounge in downtown St. Albert earlier this month.

St. Anne Street will be closed between St. Thomas Street and a laneway just west of Cranky’s Bike Shop starting Thursday morning. The closure is set to start at 7 a.m. on Thursday and will continue until 7 a.m.

A Morinville pet food producer took home a top provincial business award.

Town councillors and public school trustees in Morinville have agreed to put aside past differences and work together on the issues surrounding a school project in that community. At a joint council/board meeting Feb.

The province is tapping Albertans on the shoulder to find out how they envision physician-assisted dying.