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Mayor Nolan Crouse spent around $30,000 on his re-election campaign while challenger Shelley Biermanski spent around $5,000, according to estimates provided by the candidates.

For one St. Albert woman, 2010 will forever be remembered as the Year of the Big Things. Bronwen Strembiski spent months planning what could only be described as a family odyssey combined with personal obsession.

Poll-by-poll election results show Mayor Nolan Crouse was favoured by roughly 70 per cent of voters across all the areas of St. Albert, except for the polling station that served residents from Kingswood, Pineview and Akinsdale.

Teens across the province are being encouraged by a provincial health advocacy organization to get creative in the fight against tobacco use.

While it’s too soon to tell what kind of leanings St. Albert’s new city council might have, Mayor Nolan Crouse likes what he sees in the new group residents elected on Monday.

Mission: Fun & Games, a 20-year staple in the community, picked up the Enmax 2010 Small Business Week Award of Distinction Wednesday night. In two decades, owner John Engel said the store has seen many changes.

A video project created by Grade 9 students at Namao School has won third place in the “My Alberta School” competition, sponsored by the Alberta Teachers’ Association.

St. Albert voters selected four new faces and two familiar ones to sit on city council for the next three years while ousting two incumbents.

A 71-year-old construction worker was killed Saturday while working at Edmonton Garrison.

A long-time Protestant School trustee was ousted Monday night when two new faces won a seat on the board. With 2,701, or 10 per cent of the votes, trustee Judy Huisman, first elected in 2001, lost her seat on Monday.