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I’ve been a hockey player since I was nine years old, not a good hockey player, in the grand scheme of things, but an enthusiastic and somewhat serious one.

So here is the scene ... I am sitting in a brutally hard chair in the front of a starkly lit room with 25 intense therapists staring at me with excruciatingly empathetic looks on their faces.

Incumbent Coun. Len Bracko announced Thursday morning he would not be seeking re-election Oct. 21. “There are many things I would love to still work on and do,” Bracko said. “I still want to be involved.

A council veteran is coming out of retirement to try and reclaim his seat from the man he endorsed as his replacement. Former councillor Jerry Kaup announced last Aug. 28 that he would run against Coun. David Kluthe this fall in Division 4.

Economic development should be Morinville’s priority as it looks forward to becoming a city, says mayoral candidate Lisa Holmes.

Two town councillors will go head-to-head this fall now that Coun. Sheldon Fingler has decided to step into the mayor’s race.

Sturgeon County needs a quick, business-orientated council if it wants to benefit from the spinoffs of its upcoming upgrader, says a county council candidate.

Morinville has a new mayor, and his name is Gordon Boddez. But he won't be in the mayor's chair for long – Boddez says he won't run again during this fall's election. Town council voted unanimously last Aug.

Like most adolescents of the 1980s, there was a time when I wore copious amounts of blue eye shadow. In my middle school years I was pretty typical in that regard.

As a child, long before I set foot into the first digital movie theatre, I entertained old-fashioned fantasies about what's going on behind the scenes.