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There will be no Internet voting in St. Albert in October’s municipal election. Councillors voted, albeit reluctantly, to stop all work on the proposed pilot project, two weeks after Edmonton councillors voted to withdraw from it. St.

Last week I was looking online for information on a Jim Hole (of Hole’s Greenhouses) column and that search became the seed behind this story.

The Capital region plans to spend $250,000 this year to find out if it should create a regional transit board.

Parts of the original Hole’s greenhouse site may soon be rezoned for residential use, and the developer said he plans for more than just another condominium.

The province has agreed to fund construction of a fence along Ray Gibbon Drive, a structure critics say may make it tougher to get into Lois Hole Park.

The city might have to get into the land development business if it wants to be creative in economic development, the mayor said.

The affordable housing project called Aurora Place is right on schedule for completion this summer, thanks to the support of the community as well as the St. Albert Community Foundation.

Plans are in the works for a new neighbourhood in southwest St. Albert with about 700 housing units. Eighty-six acres of land, located across the road from the Enjoy Centre, were sold to South Riel Development in 2012.

It is becoming increasingly clear that a decline in the rate of increase in taxes in St. Albert is unlikely in the short or medium-term future, a sobering thought with municipal elections eight months away.

The future is electric, and a St. Albert businessman is driving it. Ron Simonsmeier, the president of St.