Athabasca News

With their hands on Bibles, the seven new Aspen Public Schools Division board trustees were sworn into their positions during the board’s organizational meeting Oct. 20. Elections were held Oct.

The final report from the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission released Oct. 19 recommends that Athabasca, Westlock, Smoky Lake, Thorhild and Barrhead counties join to form one constituency.

Edwin Parr Composite School students will transform the Nancy Appleby Theatre into a place of fairy tales come to life, in their Nov. 1-3 production of The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon.

Parents, firefighters and a local RCMP officer joined Grassland School in their Terry Fox Run-Turkey Trot Oct. 20, raising money for cancer research.

Town of Athabasca residents voted to wipe the slate clean in the Oct. 16 municipal election.

The Village of Boyle council will be a majority new council after residents voted in three people brand-new to municipal politics Election Day Oct. 16.

Boyle School students got a taste of the cultures that live among them during Multicultural Day Oct. 18. “Lots of times they forget there’s a bigger world out there.

A 40-year-old Athabasca man who was just trying “to find help ” when he went on a crime spree downtown last December was sentenced to two years behind bars. Jordan James Prymak appeared in custody in Athabasca Provincial Court Oct.

A woman dealing with a fentanyl addiction and caught with $600 worth of stolen makeup in her purse received a 15-day sentence for her crime. Speaking to the court from prison via closed-circuit television, Michelle R.

Although “bridge funding” will keep their doors open until December, friendship centres across the country are in budgeting limbo after the funding process stalled within the federal government.