Local News
Sept. 4 Print Edition Download
Our weekly print edition will be at our more than 100 locations in Morinville, Cardiff and Legal Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. […]
Legal
Morinville and Legal – The Weekend in photos
Jane Hurl, Trail Boss of the Wild Pink Yonder Charitable Society and her son Rusty Hurl, the Sheriff, presented Kareen Tucci, Legal’s Pink Trail Committee President with a miniature sign at the family event held in… […]
Arts & Culture
Festival friends fund fall fling
Morinville News Staff Photo
Champion Petfoods CEO Frank Burdzy and Morinville Festival Society Chair Paul Smith pose with Champion’s donation towards this season’s festival… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Healthy Routes Column: What’s with all the zucchini?
By Gladys Kublik, owner Neighbors Vitamin Shop
This is the burning question my husband and some of my customers have been asking this year; which they sometimes follow with a rueful shake of the head and an expression that softly says “She’s crazy, but harmless.”… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Progressive Views Column: Prorogation Tactics
Recently, the Prime Minister announced that he would ask the Governor General to prorogue this session of Parliament until a Speech from the Throne that is likely to come in late October… […]
Arts & Culture
Morinville guitarist loves metal
Morinville guitarist Luke Nolin plays at Smith Music. – Stephen Dafoe By Stephen Dafoe Morinville – A local guitarist has […]
Local Sports
Morinville Sports Shorts – Football Camp & Jets Pre-Season
The Morinville Community High School field served as the venue for a four-day introduction to football last week. Organizers say the camp drew roughly two-dozen local youth to learn the warm ups, techniques and complex rules of Canadian football… […]
Local News
Second quarter report gives out the numbers
Enforcement services experiences many calls, fewer tickets
Enforcement Services covered considerable ground in the second quarter of 2013, responding to a total of 477 calls. Of those stops, officers issued 19 bylaw tickets, gave out 60 provincial offence warnings, and issued another 48 provincial tickets… […]
Morinville News
Community Grant Policy sees some changes
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – A year after Council initially requested revisions to the Town’s Community Grant Policy, a revised draft document came to Council Aug. 27 with some significant recommended changes. Council spent 40 minutes discussing the revisions before sending it back to Administration for tweaking. The document will come back to Council Sept. 10 for possible decision… […]
Morinville News
Fingler to run for mayor of Morinville
By Stephen Dafoe Morinville – Councillor Sheldon Fingler has announced he will seek the mayoral seat in the fall general […]
Editorial & Opinion
Letter: Loose dogs a problem in parks
Editor:
Lovely night over at the Fish and Game pond. Good to see lots of people from Morinville getting their exercise in such a beautiful place; however, one person thought allowing her three dogs to be off leash was a way to enjoy the evening… […]
Local News
Morinville Council briefs
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville Town Council had a heavy agenda for their first official meeting after the summer recess. Below are the highlights of what was covered at the Aug. 27 meeting… […]
Local News
Town and County dealing with purple loosestrife at Sunshine Lake
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – A Morinville watershed received an assist from Sturgeon County weed inspectors Aug. 27. Castell van Paridon, a weed inspector with Sturgeon County, was at Sunshine Lake with two other workers Tuesday afternoon to do some damage control on some purple loosestrife growing along the shoreline… […]
Morinville News
Boddez appointed Morinville mayor
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – The community has a new mayor, at least until the next one is sworn in after the Oct. 21 election. Councillor Gordon Boddez was appointed mayor Tuesday night during the Aug. 27 meeting of Morinville Town Council. He fills the mayoral vacancy left by the June 30 passing of Morinville Mayor Paul Krauskopf. After beign appointed mayor, Boddez was sworn in and resumed his regular Council seat and not the chair reserved for mayor.
The discussion was the first order of business at Council’s Aug. 27 meeting. Deputy Mayor Lisa Holmes took nominations from the floor and Councillor Sheldon Fingler put forward Boddez’ name. Boddez was appointed mayor with a unanimous vote of Council… […]
Uncategorized
Letter: Morinville’s finest
Dear editor:
Clearly, the people of Morinville are the best. We have never been there, but we should definitely come visit very soon after what happened to us last night [Aug. 25]. Driving home from Vancouver Island on Highway 16 around 10 p.m… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Letter: RCMP offer back to school traffic safety tips
Morinville RCMP would like to remind the community to exercise extra caution as students in Morinville and throughout Sturgeon County head back to school on Sept. 3. Morinville RCMP along with the Morinville Bylaw and Sturgeon County bylaw will be in school zones starting next week and throughout the school year in order to ensure that drivers are observing the posted school zone speed limit… […]