Local News

Street hockey action sees a lot of slapshots with some tough sticks. This weekend, one St. Albert woman is going to use the sports arena as a venue to talk about how some small sticks — Q-Tips — can score too.

A story in the May 29 Gazette stated local school boards are facing tight budgets due to a change in the calculation of the Alberta Weekly Earnings Index, which sets teacher salary increases each year.

Next week is Seniors’ Week in St. Albert but if you ask Leslie MacEachern, it’s still business as usual. For the executive director and everybody else at the St.

Thanks to a warmer-than-usual start to the year, the number of car break-ins that happened in St. Albert increased by 63 in the first three months of 2010 over those at the same time in 2009.

The Protestant school board has extended the deadline for the sale of its surplus school site at 70 Arlington Dr. until Sept. 30.

Something was missing from the Edmonton Garrison when Sgt. Mike Rude came back from Afghanistan.

A student from Sturgeon Composite High School brought home a silver medal from a national skills competition.

A new seminar series will help St. Albert youth find employment. The St. Albert Public Library will host two drop-in seminars aimed at helping those in the 16 to 24 age bracket tap into the job market.

Former Protestant district superintendent Joe Demko will run for a seat on the school board in the fall. The retired Demko announced his intention on Monday, saying he wants to bring more local autonomy to the board.

If you ask Suzan Krecsy, the executive director of the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village, where her organization would be if it weren’t for the magnanimous gestures of support from Ash Khan, you would get deadly silence for an answer.