Local News

Town council is hurting local businesses by putting off appointing a new mayor until the end of August, says the head of Morinville’s chamber of commerce.

On July 2 a group of 27 Bellerose Composite High School students, alumni, staff and volunteers flew to Kauai, Hawaii to hike the Kalalau Trail. The rather intense 11 mile trail is ranked by National Geographic as one of the top 10 hikes in the world.

After 16 years of operation, St. Albert’s Youth Community Centre (YCC) has decided to close its doors for good. The YCC board decided last week it would cease operations effective Friday.

A drunken man alarmed local residents before being talked down from a local bridge late Sunday. The 51-year-old resident of St. Albert had climbed on top of the security cage of the pedestrian walkway spanning St. Albert Trail near St. Albert Centre.

Morinville needs to think regional if it wants a pool and more economic development, says Coun. David Pattison. Pattison, 59, told the Gazette this week that he'll seek a second term on town council during this fall's election.

Every Tuesday and Friday morning a half-dozen elderly gentlemen meet at the St. Albert Botanic Park, roll up their sleeves and set to work. "We're the Old Boys' Club," said a cheerful Ray Wright, who turns 80 this coming fall.

Visitors who relax in the shady gazebo in Lorene and Ernie Silverton’s Grandin-area yard often remark on the garden’s peaceful, almost forest-like solitude. That comment usually earns a smile, because it didn’t used to be that way.

This week is the one when gardeners take a little more time to smell their roses because they are hoping that at least one of them will be a winner at the St. Albert Botanic Park’s annual rose show scheduled to take place Sunday.

A new smartphone app launched by a local crime watch group will enable ordinary citizens to participate in policing their own community.

Picture yourself wearing a fur coat as you sit in a vehicle on a hot day. This is the image that the Edmonton Humane Society is promoting as it warns the public about the dangers of leaving your pet in your car during the summer months.