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An Edmonton man who robbed a local pharmacy twice in the span of just eight days, has been granted statutory release. Mohamed Ismail Arafa robbed the Tudor Glen Market Pharmacy twice over the winter holidays between December 2007 and January 2008.

Red and white were the colours of the day Monday, and it wasn't just sunburned bodies. An estimated 6,000 to 7,000 people showed up at St. Albert's Lions Park to celebrate Canada's 146th birthday. Festivities kicked off with a 9 a.m. pancake breakfast hosted by the Heritage Lakes Community Association and wound down with fireworks illuminating the night sky at 11 p.m.

The Kusam Klimb. "Are you tough enough?" asks the website. Of course. It's only 21 kilometres. Sure it starts at sea level and grinds its way up to 1,482 metres in a breath-sucking 7.7 kilometres. But I am tough enough.

Seniors, soccer players and a young polo player were just some of the people who are a little richer this week thanks to Morinville’s town council. Town council voted unanimously in favour of some $22,047.

This past weekend’s Boonstock Music and Arts Festival ushered in an estimated 12,000 people per day, and a number of those attendees ended up having brushes with the law.

He truly was Mr. Morinville. Morinville residents shared a moment of silence Monday afternoon during the town's Canada Day festivities to remember Mayor Paul Krauskopf. Krauskopf died at about 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 30, at the Sturgeon Community Hospital of liver failure related to colon cancer, said town officials. He was 63.

Morinville Mayor Paul Krauskopf has died. Krauskopf, 62, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2010. He died Sunday. Born and raised in Morinville, Krauskopf was first elected to town council in 1998.

If you're reading this paper, it means the Gazette's new multimillion-dollar printing machine is up and running. The Gazette's parent company, Great West Newspapers, threw the switch on its new Carleton Drive printing press Friday to print this edition of the St. Albert Gazette, the first commercial product made by the new machinery.

St. Albert's proposed new air quality monitoring station went on trial Wednesday, with its critics saying they're fine with the station itself … but not if it's in their park.

All the things needed for a Canada Day party will be in place Monday, July 1 in St. Albert.