Westlock News

In a perfect world Westlock would have two or three more doctors, but overall it looks as though the community is in good shape. Dr.

Town councillors are open to finding ways to keep the Westlock Seniors and Disabled bus running beyond the planned July 2013 shutdown. After listening to a passionate crowd at the Jan.

Former Pembina Hills school division Supt. Richard Harvey was scheduled to appear in Barrhead Provincial Court Tuesday, Jan. 8, to face fraud charges, but did not attend and has requested a disclosure file from the Crown and six weeks to review it.

Icy roads are being blamed for a collision near Villeneuve last Sunday, Jan. 6, that claimed the lives of two Westlock residents.

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.