Barrhead News

Nicholas Kliparchuck (back) and Halee Demone, both in Grade 2, take advantage of a small hill on the playground of Dunstable School during a January 22 recess

Spruceland Millworks has been acquired by Millar Western Forest Products and will be auctioned off later this year. The deal was made public with a press release issued Jan.

In the near future the Barrhead Regional Aquatics Centre will have a new name and in all likelihood it will have Elks in it. On Jan.

It is a blow to the community. That is how County of Barrhead reeve Doug Drozd characterized the closure of the Timeu Forest Products.

The Edmonton Pregnancy Centre (EPC) hopes to open its Barrhead branch in April. That is what EPC executive director Norah Kennedy told an audience of more than 50 people during a Jan. 10 information session at Barrhead Elementary School.

The sixth of seven planned rounds of negotiations regarding the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is taking place this week in Montreal and Peace River-Westlock MP Arnold Viersen says the uncertainty surrounding the issue is h

A missed curfew in Barrhead resulted in the arrest of a local man and the seizure of drugs and a firearm. Barrhead RCMP arrested Randy Blake Wiebe, 59, of Barrhead on Jan. 12 after Wiebe allegedly breached curfew conditions the night before.

When the Barrhead Orioles midget baseball team heads to Cuba later this month for a week-long good will tour, playing as Team Canada, they will be bringing a piece of the community with them.

With four of the seven trustees having been elected in October, the Pembina Hills Public Schools board is still learning the ropes and doesn’t have any major projects on the go, such as the attendance area review carried out in 2016.

Two local landowners, Ray and Sean Steele, will have to wait a little longer to find out whether their application to rezone 40 acres of land from highway commercial (C2) to urban reserve will be approved.