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The first phase of the city’s long-envisioned heritage-themed park on Meadowview Drive will be largely complete in time for St. Albert’s 150th anniversary, officials assured council on Monday.

City residents can expect their municipal property taxes to increase by no more than three per cent, after council on Monday drew budget deliberations to a close.

Take a love triangle, an oil and gas tycoon, a climate change refugee and throw in video recorded interviews with real-life politicians and scientists, and presto, you have U: The Comedy of Global Warming.

Future residents of a new seniors lodge will have to wait about three months before they can move into their suites even though the facility could be ready for occupancy before Christmas. The addition at North Ridge Lodge at 21 Mont Clare Pl.

There’s a renewed energy at Bellerose Composite High as the jazz band and jazz choir step it up a few notches for Mambos and Mocktails coming this Friday.

Nearly four years after the incident, a Sturgeon Valley man and former council candidate was sentenced last week to a year of house arrest and a year of probation for assaulting a Morinville RCMP officer.

A St. Albert scientist has received about $10 million to grow cells that could treat burns, lungs and diabetes. Gregory Korbutt, a professor of surgery at the University of Alberta (U of A) and St. Albert resident, got about $10.

Thomas Receveur has just received one of the greatest thrills that any aspiring writer can experience — getting published in an international magazine.

An Edmonton-based business is borrowing some meeting room space in St. Albert tomorrow to spread some Christmas cheer in more ways than one.

Green TRIP stalls again The province has put the brakes on this year’s Green TRIP funding, but that won’t stop St. Albert’s new park and ride from going ahead in 2011.