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Washing windows may not be the job of a lifetime but Reed MacDonald said being your own entrepreneur makes for a valuable experience. The 21-year-old business student from St. Albert started Sods & Odds last year with his brother and two friends.

A fire ban is now in place in the City of St. Albert, meaning no one with a fire pit is allowed to use it for the foreseeable future.

Local gelato store moves to new location Celebrating one year in business, locally owned Geppetto’s Gelato recently moved a little closer to its ice cream-loving customers. Now located at 24 Muir Drive, just off St.

There’s a joke that circulates in St. Albert – the first thing to greet anyone when they enter the city’s limits is a photo radar van.

St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber has had a busy schedule of late, combining committee work, speaking out for open speech in Parliament and his own private member's bill. Rathgeber said last Monday in an interview at his downtown St.

A new city program that helps fund the cost of large community capital projects could help a couple of community groups with some big plans they’ve been developing. Melody Martyn, executive director of the St.

Where could you show your strong support for top level health care in our community and also have one of the best golfing experiences of the summer? It could only be the Heritage Golf Classic, June 21 at Sturgeon Valley Golf and Country Club.

The heart of Morinville will get a little bit taller under the proposed Coeur de Morinville area structure plan, residents learned last week – a plan that would add a two-storey minimum requirement for commercial buildings to the downtown.

The race for the mayor's chair is officially on after 2010 mayoral challenger Shelley Biermanski announced she will again try to unseat Nolan Crouse. Biermanski told the Gazette Tuesday there is a large swath of voters looking for change and she is the person who can provide it. “I believe we have to go back to what St. Albert is truly supposed to be,” said Biermanski.

Gareth Jones wants his seat back. Defeated in the 2010 election after serving his first term on city council, the 73-year-old electrical equipment manager and founding member of the St.