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Autumn is a gorgeous time of year but you wouldn’t know it. All of the campaign signs that have bedecked most of the city’s public spaces are like an outbreak of measles on a sick kid’s face.

St. Albert is a little less fruity now that a city program has replaced some troublesome pear trees. City crews announced this week that they had wrapped up their fruit tree removal program a year ahead of schedule.

The first three days of advance voting have seen higher numbers than the corresponding days in 2010.

Now that the school year has started, optometrists across the province are reminding parents to bring their kindergarten children in for free eye exams.

Civic Election Pull Out

Jim Hole learned an embarrassing lesson about cellphone manners one day. Sitting in a meeting that required him to keep his phone turned off, his timer began to ring.

Concerns about having the polling station at the Enjoy Centre for voters in the Grandin/Heritage Lakes voting subdivisions haven’t been heard by the returning officer yet.

Voters in the St. Albert municipal election might be forgiven if they feel like they've heard the same promises and issues all before. Flipping through old campaign brochures from mayoral and council candidates from years past, the same themes seem to keep coming back.

The sale of one, two and three bedroom condos at a new complex next to Costco and Sobeys in Erin Ridge North begins today and according to the developer, “are going to go fast.

As the municipal campaign season draws to a close, some candidates feel the civic election has taken on a negative tone.