Athabasca News

Before Plamondon-based author Charmaine Hammond penned any of her nine books, she and her husband, Chris Alcock, adopted a five-year-old Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Toby.

Athabasca town councillor Nichole Adams believes that council has misused in-camera sessions of its regular meetings as per Municipal Government Act regulations. An in-camera session is a portion of a meeting that is closed to the public and media.

One of two men who broke into two seniors’ homes, beat them and demanded keys to their vehicles last February looked impassive as Judge J. Maher read from a victim impact statement in Boyle Provincial Court last Tuesday.

Rylan Wagner, 11, gives a demonstration at the annual Athabasca Flips Gymnastics fun meet last Saturday at the Athabasca & District Ag Society grounds. Wagner started out with Flips and now trains in St. Albert and competes provincially.

Lease agreement troubles between Colinton Lanes manager Tracy Blundon and the Colinton Community Club (CCC) have bowlers worried about the future of the facility.

An entire new world can be seen under the magnification of a microscope. Objects previously thought small appear large and full of life. Dr.

Armand Lacoursiere was sentenced to 15-and-a-half years imprisonment Feb. 19 for sexually abusing seven children beginning in the 1970s.

Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) has been operating out of the old brick school for more than 25 years, but on Feb. 28, it will be celebrating the grand opening of its new building, located at 3598-48th Avenue.

On March 12, Aspen View Public Schools will lower their Canadian flags to half-mast to honour the nation’s troops being pulled from Afghanistan.

Town of Athabasca council is set to receive an approximately 30-per-cent raise, and not all councillors are happy about it. The motion was made by councillor Tim Verhaeghe and passed by a 4--3 vote at last Tuesday’s regular town council meeting.