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Now that Halloween is a fading memory, except for the daily chore of trying to keep all that candy away from young children, attention has shifted to Christmas — the most costly holiday of the year for most people.

The finger is alive and well in St. Albert. And that is not a good thing.

Now that the Heartland Transmission Project has been given approval to proceed along the eastern route, will all the rhetoric and the fear mongering cease and be replaced by sane, objective debate? That’s not likely to happen, of course, becaus

Will that be plastic or paper? Remember when store clerks used to ask that question at check-outs back in the early ’80s? It was a time when manufacturers had perfected the small, single-use plastic bag — ideal for consumers to carry home

Well, there goes that salary increase from 2011. St. Albert council released its initial budget figures Monday showing a proposed 2.9-per-cent increase in residential property taxes and a 9.5-per-cent increase in utility rates.

Every few years municipal leaders, tired of playing poor second cousin to posh relatives in the legislature and Parliament, rattle a few sabres in defence of the underfunded city.

We don’t mean to scare the bejeezus out of you, but if you love Halloween, you are a heretic. That’s right. If you’re going out to a costume party dressed up as Leatherface wielding a fake chainsaw, you’re practicing heresy.

Taylor Fraser is captain of the St.

Take a well-deserved bow St. Albert residents. And city council, too.

The Gazette received an email recently from a reader, upset that he had been issued a ticket for breaking the bicycle helmet bylaw. This reader has started a one-man campaign to get the St. Albert bylaw rescinded.