Tenille Townes, a GP product, headlined opening night at the Bear Creek Folk Festival last weekend. The Juno and multi-CCMA-award-winning singer songwriter has leveraged her talents from Northern Alberta to Nashville. Muskoseepi was bursting with good vibes and great weather for the three-day festival! Photo by William Vavrek
Sexsmith council continues to advocate for changes at the intersection of Emerson Trail and Hwy. 2. On Aug. 10, the council moved to request a meeting about it with Alberta Minister of Transportation and Economic Corridors Devin Dreeshen at the Alberta Municipalities convention next month. Sexsmith Mayor Kate Potter told the News that the town […]
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation’s (SLNC) judicial review application regarding water rights for the proposed Wonder Valley AI data centre will go forward in December despite an attempt by the builders to have the application dismissed. A Court of King’s Bench decision released Aug. 13 dismissed the argument from O’Leary Digital Ltd. (ODL) lawyers that as […]
Lee Lefferson is still scratching his head, wondering what kind of audacity it takes for someone to shoot a heifer and butcher it on the spot. That’s what happened sometime during the night of Aug. 7 on a grazing area northwest of Beaverlodge. “Last Saturday, while we were sleeping, somebody wasn’t I guess, and somebody […]
Submitted by West Peace Medical Centre, Beaverlodge AB The recent Emergency Department closures at Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital are understandably concerning for our community. The primary challenge is not a lack of commitment from the physicians practising in Beaverlodge, but rather the difficulty of maintaining a complete Emergency Department schedule while relying on locum physicians to […]
Additional work on the Hythe Memorial Arena requires additional funding but the County of Grande Prairie and the community of Hythe are hopeful to see an end to the renovations soon, and to get the kids back on the ice. County councillors approved a request to reallocate $54,213 in previously approved funding from remediation to […]
The Town of Beaverlodge hopes to see community peace officer (CPO) coverage by next year. On Aug. 10, County of Grande Prairie council directed administration to work with the Town of Beaverlodge to develop a new agreement including new service hours for Community Peace Officers (CPO), Bylaw Enforcement Officers (BEO), and animal control services for […]
