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'Ouch' – Rates may go up $25/month

'Ouch' – Rates may go up $25/month

It looks like the average St. Albert home’s utility rates will increase at least $25.31 a month compared to 2014 bills.
Find your food!

Find your food!

Why pay for food when you can find it growing wild in your backyard or nearby park? While you wouldn’t find enough grub to feed the family, there are many good-for-you greens and several mushroom varieties that call the St.
Double expense claims are a concern

Double expense claims are a concern

I am quite concerned about this situation of duplicate expense claims in our city. There are many in St. Albert right now who are asking for an investigation of the expense claims Mayor Crouse made in duplicate to the City of St.
Coats for the needy

Coats for the needy

More than 400 needy families in the city and throughout the region will not have to worry about staying warm this winter, thanks to some charitable community citizens. Throughout its tryouts late in the summer, St.
'Great place to live, but a horrible place to die'

'Great place to live, but a horrible place to die'

If there was more than one hospice bed in St. Albert, maybe another family wouldn't have to go through the emotional turmoil Carolyn Terpsma's did. Two years ago on Thanksgiving, Terpsma's mother was admitted to the Sturgeon Community Hospital.
School Notes

School Notes

A St. Albert graduate is going to university almost for free after winning $25,000 in scholarships. St. Albert Catholic High grad Paige Shelemey received a Chancellor’s Entrance Citation award from the University of Alberta last month.
Celebrating small business

Celebrating small business

The big winner of Thursday night's Small Business Award of Distinction was still feeling a little shaky after the ceremony.
Who are the city's best artists?

Who are the city's best artists?

The sixth annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts Gala is a once-a-year opportunity to rub elbows with some of St. Albert’s most accomplished artists.
St. Albert man nabbed again for drug trafficking

St. Albert man nabbed again for drug trafficking

A St. Albert man charged with trafficking drugs in June has again been arrested by police, this time in possession of what RCMP believe to be fake OxyContin. Officers from the St. Albert Drug Unit arrested Shane Fry, 27, and Carley Sherban, 21, both of St. Albert on Sept. 30 as part of an ongoing drug investigation. The silver car the pair was in was searched as was a Morinville hotel room. Police believe the pair was trafficking in St. Albert and Morinville.
Wait seemed like 'forever'

Wait seemed like 'forever'

A father is raising the alarm about ambulance dispatch after his family waited about 19 minutes for emergency responders while his daughter lay broken when she fell at least eight feet onto concrete.
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