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The annual summer festival will not go on this year at the McNaught Homestead, but work continues to help renovate and preserve the site.McNaught Homestead Preservation Society president Peter Martin said the festival will not go on this year due to renovations which will see a new foundation under the homestead house.To that end, the […]

For about three years, a local Grovedale meadery has been making a buzz locally, nationally and even internationally. Its honey-based wine or mead started as a passion project for the owner and mead maker, Kristeva Dowling, at Stolen Harvest. “I started as a hobby beekeeper,” said Dowling. In her third year of beekeeping, her four […]

The Beaverlodge Daycare is hoping the community will band together following a second spree of vandalism that has left town residents feeling frustrated. Daycare executive director Alysha Martin said its building was been the target of vandals over the Canada Day weekend. “We had left some paint out in a bin in the backyard,” Martin […]

Beaverlodge residents curious about their latest utility bill are being advised of the anomaly. The June utility billings are showing no consumption figures due to a failure in the town’s communication system.  Administration is working to correct the problem but advise it may take as long as the end of the month as components require […]

Producers may have been wishing for more moisture over the winter months but dry soil led to a quick seeding season for Peace farmers, according to County of Grande Prairie agricultural fieldman Sonja Raven. “For our county, we were probably two weeks early and we were done fast,” Raven said. “Seeding went really well. It […]