Athabasca News

Athabasca town council has come out officially in support of a highway bypass.

The idea of increased regional collaboration between the Town of Athabasca and Athabasca County was briefly addressed again by town council.

Plans to build a new seniors’ drop in centre in the Village of Boyle are being developed. Peter Golanski, treasurer of the Boyle and District Seniors Drop-in Centre, approached village council with building plans last Wednesday.

An RCMP helicopter from Edmonton landed on the Athabasca Town Common Monday just before noon.

Local politicians want your vote in the federal election, and now you have a chance to ask them why they deserve it. A candidate forum will be held in the governing council chambers at Athabasca University on Wednesday, April 27.

The Town of Athabasca has raised their bulk water rates over 47 per cent, from $4.40 to $6.49 a cube. “It went up the same as our residential and commercial rates,” said CAO Doug Topinka.

Boyle council met the public recently. Council members, along with the village mayor and chief administrative officer (CAO), met with residents during a public meet and greet on April 11.

Emergency response improvements are slated for Highway 63, or as it’s known locally, the ‘highway of death’. The Province of Alberta and the County of Athabasca are investing a combined $1.

The Village of Boyle council adopted a balanced budget for 2011 last Wednesday. The budget estimates that the village will take in just under $4.3 million in revenue, with $1.2 million coming from taxation, which is up 5.7 per cent from last year.

Is the touchy subject of municipal amalgamation about to resurface? Amalgamation of the Town and County of Athabasca was defeated in a plebiscite in April 2004, but it was resurrected during a closed-door joint town and county council meeting held Ma