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There is another new face in the municipal election race as Sheena Hughes announced Monday she wants a seat at St. Albert's council table. Hughes, who grew up in St. Albert, said she wants to see a return to weekly garbage pickup and better fiscal responsibility. “I just think we can provide better services without large tax increases, exercise better fiscal management and we can re-arrange our priorities to reflect that,” Hughes said.

The date is May 27. The city is Toronto. The Bellerose Reach for the Top team is one game away from the national finals, and is up against Toronto’s titanic P.A.C.E. Academy for Gifted Children.

I meet Barry Bailey at his bookstore in Riel Business Park to see if it's possible for him to repair my grandmother's 112-year-old Bible. Bailey, who is a video producer and event planner, also sells used books by appointment and online.

Whoever started singing that song about summertime and the living being easy, must not have had a garden. Gardening requires lots of raking, digging, planting, mowing, weeding, stretching, pruning, bending, watering, bug spraying and weeding.

It’s been 20 years now, and St. Albert’s annual Take It or Leave It event is still going strong.

The city is so impressed with the success of the block party program, it is hoping even more residents will host one this year. Last year there were 83 block parties across St. Albert and this year the city wants to see at least 100.

A striking two-storey home in Erin Ridge is featured as the Realty Executives Masters Home of the Week. Welcome home! This great family home has room for everyone.

There isn’t much poetic beauty in calling the city’s newest property the police services annex building, says the mayor. So on Wednesday the city gave its newest building a proper name.

It looks like the changes council made last year to its false alarm bylaw are having the desired affect.

It’s the familiar yet unwanted sight that happens all too often after winter’s thick white coat of snow finally succumbs to spring’s bluster of longer days and beautiful, hot sunshine. Poop everywhere, like a minefield of muck.