Athabasca News

Gary Buchanan has been removed from his position as Athabasca County’s chief administrative officer.

Halle Reid, Aaden Dennis and Alanna Hango performed "Zombies and Ninjas " at the Nancy Appleby Theatre as part of the Athabasca dance showcase last Saturday.

Beginning in May, AltaGas will be replacing the network of gas mains and services that lay beneath the streets and alleys of downtown Athabasca.

Residential property owners will see a 0.1-per-cent increase in their total mill rate this year over last year.

The Boyle Rural Crime Watch annual general meeting (AGM) will be held on April 14 and is a cry for help. Unless the group has several members join in an active role, president Terry Jordan said the group may be forced to close.

The Village of Boyle is warning residents their March natural gas bill may be higher than expected.

Aspen View Public School Division has approved the Landing Trail Intermediate School playground fundraising committee request for a loan of $322,470.

The Athabasca Roman Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic and United Churches all banded together to give 43 shawls and some cards to residential school survivors as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission events last weekend in Edmonton. (l-r) Monica Rosborough, Severna Bosik, Leona Bury, Sonja Suik, Bernadette Moroz and Heather Kariel all helped in the making of birthday cards or shawls.

At approximately 8:30 a.m. on April 1, the Athabasca Fire Department responded to a call of a garbage truck ablaze on 56th Street near Landing Trail Intermediate School.

At least 28 discrepancies between Athabasca County councillor timesheets and meeting minutes occurred from 2010-2013, the Advocate has discovered. The discrepancies involved five current councillors and three former ones.