Barrhead News

Barrhead Raptors Community Football has decided to call it quits after struggling with a lack of coaches for the club’s two teams.

There was cause for celebration last Friday when Barrhead Composite High School’s Grade 12 students celebrated a major milestone: graduation.

The Westlock Red Lions defeated the Barrhead Orioles 14-5 in senior men’s’ AA North Central Alberta Baseball League (NCABL) action on Wednesday, June 25, 2014.

All four walls of a Barrhead Composite High School classroom were covered with the talent of art students last week. So were a few tables.

After almost four years of planning, Barrhead Town council may have settled on a design for the community’s new aquatic centre. Though the plan is still a conceptual draft, Mayor Gerry St.

On June 14, the residents of Mayerthorpe celebrated the 75th anniversary of their local Co-op grocery store, which was officially incorporated in 1939.

The future is looking brighter for Barrhead’s Blue Heron Fair demolition derby after a well-attended meeting about the event’s fate last week.

It wasn’t an SOS to the world, but Diane Ebert hoped someone would get her message in a bottle when she tossed it into the Athabasca River in 1989.

The Barrhead Agrena Society is trying to move full steam ahead in its fundraising efforts for the new pool.

Associate Minister of Services for Persons with Disabilities Naresh Bhardwaj paid a visit to Barrhead last Friday as part of his Building Rural Capacity tour.