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Local News

MCHS Cheer Team wins first competition of the season

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – The Morinville Community High School Lady Wolves were not the only girls to take gold over the weekend – the MCHS Cheer Team also took top honours in a weekend competition… […]

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Province

Kubinec ready to run for PCs

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock PC members gathered in voting booths throughout the region Jan. 28 to elect their candidate to replace long-serving MLA Ken Kowalski. That victor was Westlock County Deputy Reeve Maureen Kubinec… […]

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Local Sports

Lady Wolves take invitational tournament gold

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The Morinville Community High School Lady Wolves basketball team’s 56-25 victory over the visiting Holy Redeemer High School Rebels Saturday night gave the Morinville girls the gold in their invitational tournament… […]

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Local News

Morinville’s youth worker has plenty of plans to keep youth engaged

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – With piercings, a sleeve full of ink, and an office full of pop culture images and quotations from people she finds inspiring, it is easy to see Morinville’s new youth worker is comfortable in her skin. It’s an appropriate level of confidence for someone whose job is to make sure Morinville’s youth are comfortable in theirs and comfortable in the community they live in… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Editorial: Now here’s something magical

You know you’ve encountered something pretty magical when you see kids happy to be learning. One group of kids are in a corner looking at books and creating art; another group is outside getting their photo taken by a parent. Under the roof of the two modular classrooms that now house Morinville Public… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Letter: Re Photo Radar Location Review

I would like to thank [Morinville CAO] Debbie [Oyarzun] for writing a well thought out document regarding photo radar. It is clear that the Town has “heard” the unkind things said about our “cash” cow. I’m pleased to see that there is actually going to be a review done and would hope that the findings are brought before the public… […]

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Local News

Local business shreds documents and misconceptions about privacy

By Lucie Roy

Morinville – H& R Block Master Tax professional Darlene Lafond said she wants to be known as the privacy guru in town. Lafond and Morinville H&R Block staff members hosted a Bring your Own Box Annual Shred It Day and Open House Jan. 28. Documents were shred by Iron Mountain Shredding… […]

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Local News

Kubinec gets Barrheard-Morinville-Westlock PC nod

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – The region’s PC party members went to the polls in Barrhead, Morinville and Westlock Saturday to choose their candidate in the next provincial election. Westlock County Deputy Reeve Maureen Kubinec took the day… […]

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Local News

Human rights complaint re Morinville school issue rejected

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The same week Morinville Public Elementary School students entered their new modular classrooms on École Georges P. Vanier grounds, two parents learned their human rights complaint against Greater St. Albert Catholic Regional Division No. 29 (GSACRD) and the Ministry of Education had been rejected by the Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC)… […]

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Local News

Residents have opportunity to review Land Use Bylaw

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – After nearly a decade, Morinville’s Land Use Bylaw (LUB) is soon to go before Town Council to be passed into municipal law. Residents have an opportunity Feb. 2 to have a look at the draft bylaw and provide final comments on the matter before it is brought to Council for first reading Feb. 14… […]

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Uncategorized

Civic Plaza to lose Spanish influence

Morinville – The Community’s Town Hall will lose part of its name when the $3.5 million facility is reopened this spring. Long known as St. Germain Plaza, the building will henceforth be called St. Germain Place. While the St. Germain portion will remain as homage to Morinville’s first mayor and founder of Les Progress newspaper, Omer St. Germain, the term Plaza will be stricken… […]

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Local News

Bylaw change gives apartment proposal the go ahead

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – A proposed three-storey, 39-unit seniors’ apartment building in Morinville’s downtown area got the go ahead Tuesday night to move a little closer to reality after Morinville Town Council voted unanimously in favour of second and third reading on an amendment to the Land Use Bylaw… […]