Westlock News

Residents will pay the same fee, whether they are from the town or county, to use the Westlock Rotary Spirit Centre when its doors open in May.

Alberta Health Services and the union representing about 60 support staff who walked off the job at the Westlock hospital last week have agreed to binding arbitration.

The most recent provincial budget has been both lauded as the fulfillment of premier Alison Redford’s leadership campaign promises, and criticized as showing too little in the way of fiscal restraint.

A byelection to fill the vacant Westlock seat at the Pembina Hills board table, held by the late Doug Fleming, is slated for March 26.

After just a year and a half on the job, Clyde CAO Melanie Beastall will leave the village for greener pastures. She declined last week to elaborate on her intentions, since her resignation has yet to be formally accepted by the village council.

Dapp's Levi Foster gets some big air during Saturday afternoon's slopestyle event at the 2012 Alberta Winter Games which was being hosted at the Tawatinaw Valley Ski Hill. Westlock-area athletes failed to make the podium at the skiing and snowboarding events.

Westlock’s Simeon Rottier will return to Alberta to play for the Edmonton Eskimos for the 2012 season in the Canadian Football League after recently signing a free-agent deal with the club.

The vote totals are in from the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party’s Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock nomination where Westlock County Coun. Maureen Kubinec was chosen to take over for Ken Kowalski.

Todd Arth is a remarkably positive man, considering his store has been broken into three times in the past three weeks.

Pembina Hills’ Co-op Pool Operating Reserve will soon be cut in half, with funds being used towards school improvement and technology upgrades. At the Wednesday, Jan.