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One day after returning from PyeongChang, South Korea, Melissa Lotholz can’t wait to return.

Young hockey players got the chance to practice with a former professional hockey player at the Calling Lake Arena last weekend in a skills camp put on by Athabasca and District Minor Hockey.

If the players and coaches of the Barrhead Steelers had written the script themselves they couldn’t have done any better.

Barrhead no longer has a North Central Alberta Baseball League (NCABL) team. That is what NCABL commissioner Paul Riopel announced during a presentation to town council on March 28.

The Westlock Minor Ball Association (WMBA) wrapped up registrations last week, bringing with it a midget boys baseball team for the first time in several years. “We’re pretty happy about that,” said WMBA president Al Lyslo.

After 67 games, two R.F. Staples School students struck bronze at the Western Canadian Bantam Championship in Warman, Sask. March 30 to April 2.

Team Canada’s Zach Savage can add another gold medal to his ever-growing collection. Savage, 17, and his teammates competed at the 2017 International Para Hockey Tournament in Turin, Italy Feb.

Westlock's Bantam Warriors year ended with a silver lining following an intense finish which saw them compete for both the 1660 Bantam Tier 1 Hockey League title and a provincial ‘D' championship in a seven-day span.

Horseshoes are universal symbols of good luck, but what happens when everyone at a competition makes their own? That is the question 30 farriers answered during the Wildrose Blacksmithing Championship at the Barrhead Agricultural Barn on Saturday, Ma

It was a long day for the Barrhead Elementary School (BES) indoor track team, but was worth the effort because at the end of the day the contingent of five different relay teams won two silvers and a bronze, along with a fourth and 12th place finish