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Distracted driving law takes effect next week

Aug 25, 2011 4

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Edmonton – It’s hands on the wheel and eyes on the road Sept. 1, the day Alberta’s new distracted driving law comes into full effect. Under the new law, drivers are prohibited from talking, texting, e-mailing or web surfing on a hand held cell phone while driving. Other prohibited activities under the law include using hand-held radio communication and other electronic devices, reading, writing or engaging in personal grooming while behind the wheel… […]

Social media plays a part in new Alberta emergency Alert

Aug 23, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Edmonton – Albertans now have more ways to receive potentially life-saving information. The province announced Tuesday the new Alberta Emergency Alert system uses the latest in digital technology, social media and a dedicated website to make information available to Albertans… […]

RCMP contract extended to 2032

Aug 19, 2011 2

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Edmonton – Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Alberta’s Solicitor General Frank Oberle announced Friday morning the federal government has agreed to extend RCMP contract services another two decades. The current contract, set to expire in 2012 has been extended to 2032, marking a full century of RCMP policing in the province… […]

Province credits solid planning to lower deficit forecast

Aug 17, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilleNews.com staff

Edmonton – Alberta’s Minister of Finance, Lloyd Snelgrove, announced Wednesday that higher oil prices and near-record land sales have lowered Alberta’s expected deficit for 2011-2012 to $1.3 billion, a 60 per cent decrease from budget projections released last spring… […]

Province issues Lyme disease warning

Jul 19, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Edmonton – Although there have been no reported human cases of Lyme disease this year, five ticks have tested positive this year for Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. The ticks were found on four dogs and a cat in the Calgary and Edmonton areas, and were submitted to Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) for testing by veterinarians… […]

Voters to be counted

Jul 4, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Edmonton – Morinville residents will be counted for a third time this year beginning next month. After a federal and municipal census this spring, the province announced Monday it would be conducting a province-wide enumeration of electors. The head count of voters is scheduled to run from Aug. 26 to Sept. 19… […]

Canada Day crack down nets fewer speeders than last year

Jul 4, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Edmonton – Alberta Sheriffs and RCMP integrated traffic units kept a watchful eye on the province’s highways over the Canada Day long weekend, issuing 2,193 speeding tickets between June 30 and July 3. A slightly longer monitoring period between June 30 and July 4 in 2010 netted 2,574 speeders… […]

Latest Francophone artwork completely off the wall

Jun 24, 2011 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Legal – The Centralta Tourism Society unveiled its 34th Francophone work of art on St. Jean Baptiste Day, but unlike the preceding 33, this one is completely off the wall – literally. At 20 feet wide and 30 feet tall, the new work of art combines the welding and fabricating talents of Louis Forcade and his family with the painting skill of John Ellenberger to create a massive three dimensional monument depicting the history of bilingualism and the history of French settlers and their relationship with the British… […]

Legal retains residency requirement for its CAO

Jun 21, 2011 3

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Legal – Town Council unanimously passed an updated Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) bylaw Tuesday night, a document that replaces a 1998 bylaw that has been used by the community for the 13 years… […]

Morinville parent delivers cookies to Dave Hancock

May 19, 2011 3

By Stephen Dafoe

Edmonton – Morinville parent Thomas Kirsop arrived at the Alberta Legislature Thursday morning with enough cookies to feed plenty of politicians and government employees as well. But the delivery of biscuits and cookies wasn’t intended as a coffee break snack, it was a symbolic gesture to advise Education Minister Dave Hancock that – in Kirsop’s opinion – he is not doing his job with respect to the secular education issue in Morinville… […]

Alberta-wide fire ban in effect

May 17, 2011 Comments Off

Edmonton – Windy conditions and high wildfire risks have prompted the Alberta government to issue province-wide fire bans The fire bans are effective immediately and remain in place until further notice…. […]

Letter: Chauvet elected Legal Chamber president

May 12, 2011 Comments Off

Dear Editor:

The Legal and District Chamber of Commerce elected Ernest Chauvet as its president at the May
11th meeting. Mr. Chauvet is well known in the community having spearheaded … […]

Column: Snark one up for the Wildrose

Feb 6, 2011 2

One of the last things Premier Stelmach said in his recent announcement about stepping down as PC leader was that the next provincial election would see US wedge-style politics being used to attack personalities. He was, of course, referring to the Wildrose party; a party whom he defined … […]

Fatal collision near Legal

Jan 26, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilledNews.com Staff

Legal – A senior is dead as the result of an early morning collision Tuesday. Morinville RCMP responded to a two-vehicle collision on Highway 2, just north of Legal corners around 8 a.m. Jan. 26.
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Vipers off to a solid start

Nov 1, 2010 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Legal – It’s been a good start to the North Central Hockey League season for the Legal Vipers. After earning back-to-back victories in their season and home openers Oct. 16 and 23, the club went on to suffer a 10-1 defeat … […]

Council and residents clash over AUMA spending

Nov 1, 2010 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Legal – Council Chambers played home to a sometimes heated exchange between Legal Council and Legal residents Jeannie and Dan Charrois. At issue was the approximate $7,650 being spent to send the whole of council and some administrative staff to the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association conference and trade show in Edmonton later this month.

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