Athabasca News

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.

Residents of the Town of Athabasca have voted to wipe the slate clean in the 2017 municipal election. Colleen Powell will serve as mayor, more than doubling the runner up Roger Morrill’s ballots.

The municipal elections held across Alberta Oct. 16 saw some new faces win seats in the Athabasca and Boyle area, while some old hands will be hanging up their hats.

Fiscal responsibility, medical staffing and getting new business was on the table as the Village of Boyle’s council candidates took questions from the community at the Boyle Community Centre Oct. 12.

The Candidates’ Forum was an ideal way to meet all the candidates and gain insight into determining who is best suited to represent our town.

After serving his country, veteran Tom Mykytiuk hopes to serve his community as Aspen View Public Schools Ward 5 trustee. “I recall leaving here as a 17-year-old kid going to university and it was pretty intimidating and overwhelming,” said Mykytiuk.