Westlock News

Depending on who you ask, a merger between the Hope Resource Centre and Family and Community Support Services is not in the cards.

The Westlock Ukrainian Dance Society put on a show Saturday night at the Memorial Hall for the fifth annual Malanka celebrations. Gage Babiak (left), Kendel Butler and Riley Behan perform a mixed Paltava.

The Westlock North Task Force will soon bring a recommendation to Pembina Hills trustees to establish a consolidated K-9 school in Dapp within the next three years, while shuttering Jarvie School and W.R. Frose School in Fawcett.

The man accused of defrauding the local public school division is scheduled to make his first appearance in Barrhead Provincial Court Tuesday, Jan. 8, at 10 a.m. Former Supt.

A Morinville man will spend the next seven months behind bars after a police chase and a bizarre incident of mischief last year. Bradley R. Perrott.

Marek Kenneth Ronald Kasawski is Westlock's first baby of 2013, born to mother Trisha Kasawski. Marek was born weighing seven pounds two ounces at 7:52 a.m. on Jan. 2 at the Westlock Healthcare Centre. Marek was due on Jan. 1, but decided to hold off a few hours, his mother said. How does it feel to have her first child also the first of 2013? "I'm a lucky lady,” Trisha said.

Sydney Provencal took advantage of the warmer weather Dec. 28 and headed out to the local toboggan hill at Eastglen Park for an afternoon of fun

The past year has been a “tremendous” one, according to Westlock-St. Paul MP Brian Storseth, with the federal government accomplishing many of its goals in 2012.

Undeniably, the biggest headline maker of 2012 has been the Westlock Rotary Spirit Centre.

Overall, 2012 was a good year for Westlock County, but it wasn’t without a few bumps. That was the general message reeve Charles Navratil had when discussing where the county had been this year.