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Every time shopowner Kim Borle receives her monthly statement for credit card transaction fees, she feels a little more desperate. This month her charges came to $1,414, with an added $28 plus tax per month for renting the credit card machine at The Bookstore on Perron Street. “We lose a lot of money per month on the credit card fees. I'm talking huge,” she said.

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A Gibbons man has been fined $50 for shooting a gun out of a car window while under the influence. Tyler Skarsen of Gibbons pleaded guilty to one count of careless use of a firearm Monday in St. Albert Provincial Court. Last May 12 at about 10 p.m.

A new community garden in Riel Park is helping a small team of novice horticulturalists gain valuable work experience while also producing excellent crops.

It looks like a typical Thursday night at the St. Albert Youth Community Centre. There are about 25 people gathered in its drop-in centre in Grandin mall, a healthy mix of teenage boys and girls. There is a roar of several voices talking at once, and those voices are mostly happy, excited and laughing.

There will be at least one new face on city council when the dust settles Oct. 21 as Coun. Roger Lemieux announced Thursday he will not seek re-election.

Another candidate has thrown his hat into the St. Albert municipal election ring. Gilles Prefontaine, 37, has announced he’ll be seeking a seat at the council table. “I’m involved with a variety of things,” Prefontaine said.

Villeneuve residents will have to slow down on the way home for the next few months as the province works to replace its main intersection with a roundabout.

Arts and Heritage St. Albert has finally ended its search for a new executive director. In the end, its board didn't have to look very far for the right person to fill the opening.

Lorraine Gerling must wonder if it’s Reverse Day and everything is backwards. As the program manager of Sidekicks Mentoring, she is usually in the position of trying to find community volunteers to be mentors to local children.