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An ultimatum by the developer of Rampart Avenir isn’t sitting well with at least one member of city council.

Students at Keenooshayo took a proactive approach to stopping vandalism by making and delivering their own postcards this week.

Former party organizer and candidate Bill Harvey became the latest challenger for the leadership of the Alberta Liberals. Harvey made the announcement Thursday. A vote is scheduled for September.

The Sturgeon River has half as much oxygen in it now than it did three years ago, says a group of student researchers, but that could be due to this year’s heavy rains.

There was much going on in St. Albert last Saturday with the opening of the St. Albert Farmers’ Market during a particularly soggy late spring day.

It has been a long time coming, but the students have proven the school’s name to be true. Atsikana Pa Ulendo (APU), or Girls on the Move, is holding its first graduating class today.

The St. Albert Kinettes had every intention of opening up the newly redeveloped playground at the Woodlands Water Play Park last Saturday, but there was the small matter of a days-long storm that rained out the party.

The end of the school year, the blooming of poplar trees and too much idle time are blending together to create a string of small fires in St. Albert. Since Tuesday, fire crews have extinguished 11 fires in local ravines and parks.

No new Protestant school will be built in north St. Albert this year even though the area serves 994 students and 664 of them are bused to other parts of the city.

A young man with possible anger issues was sentenced Monday to 18 months of probation for two emotional outbursts that ended with him threatening people or hitting them.