Athabasca News

RCMP in Two Hills have arrested two suspects allegedly involved in the 2017 first-degree murder of 26-year-old Michael Matthew Mountain in Lac La Biche. According to an RCMP press release, at about 4 p.m. Jan.

The rising crime rate was the topic of town Jan.

Changes to administrative procedures regarding inclement weather, school bus drills, unsafe road conditions and bus accidents were among the recommendations in Aspen View Public School Division’s third-party transportation review.

The old Edwin Parr Composite School is still in the process of being decommissioned, and Aspen View Public School Division needs to get rid of some of the old assets.

The Athabasca Regional Victim Services Unit is set to move under the Lac La Biche umbrella Jan. 1, and it is looking for board members, volunteers and staff to fill the new array of positions.

About 50 people gathered in Calling Lake Dec. 4 to discuss operations, housing, forestry and economic sustainability at a public meeting.

An MD of Opportunity community meeting in Calling Lake took a half-hour long turn to Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries and forestry around the region, as residents took the conversation to herbicides and clear-cut trees.

The new pool at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex is scheduled to be open to the public February 2019. The question remains — what to do with the old Athabasca Landing Pool? At the Town of Athabasca council meeting Dec. 4, Coun.

Aspen View School Division has hired a new associate superintendent, with Karen Penney set to take over the position effective Jan. 7, 2019.

A historian from Smith was one of three recipients of the outstanding achievement award handed out Oct. 26 during the Heritage Awards ceremonies at Edmonton Place. Sheila Willis was nominated by the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River.