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Marie Poburan, who taught school for 35 years in St. Albert, has died. Funeral services were held Monday. Poburan, who was 80 and had been ill for some time, passed away March 2 of congestive heart failure. Poburan was an elementary school teacher.

There's not much to see yet at Rotary Park. There are no picnic tables, no swings and of course there’s a half metre of snow covering the firepits and trails.

As the largest facility of its kind in Western Canada, the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital has a wide assortment of ways to help people recover from injuries and illness. Some of its methods even take therapy out of its doors and into the world.

They were mayors, they were friends and both have schools named for them. Now Richard S. Fowler and Neil M. Ross will share one more connection – a road.

A former St. Albert Minor Hockey Association coach will spend the next 45 days in jail for making a sexual advance on a 16-year-old hockey player.

A St. Albert man is looking at a possible 10 years in prison after he was convicted of attacking an Edmonton pawn shop owner.

Morinville residents are praising the Lord this week after a local MP dropped by with $250,000 to help fix the town’s most prominent church. Westlock-St. Paul MP Brian Storseth came to Morinville’s St.

Government and business leaders had a clear message for Sturgeon County this week about its fringe areas with St. Albert: either manage them together or let St. Albert take them over.

Upon hearing the news that white smoke was puffing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, Fr. Ken Thorson, OMI, took a break from the minutes of a recent meeting he had been poring over to watch TV.

Sitting across from Don Vaugeois, owner of Don's Piano Showroom, you get the feeling he is one of those old-fashioned businessmen who would seal a deal with a handshake.