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There are 26 cemeteries within the County of Grande Prairie and a commitment by one man will ensure the stones marking those graves continue to stand. In May, Peace Country Historical Society president Ron Thoreson presented county council with a request for $3,500 for a cemetery marker preservation project. He said the funds would be […]

The Grande Prairie Police Service has found its new police chief after city council ratified the police commission's decision to hire Dwayne Lakusta for the role at Monday’s regular council meeting on July 10. Lakusta will begin the role of Grande Prairie’s first police chief on August 28.  “It is a tremendous opportunity to lead […]

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 […]

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 […]