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• Dump to close: Parks

  July 30, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  No more commercial unsorted waste for the Jasper Transfer Station Despite no community consultation, the mixed-waste dump section of the Jasper Transfer Station will be closed to commercial users this September. The closure will not affect residential w...

• Young Jasperites save cliff jumper’s life

  July 30, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  For four young Jasperites, Monday was just another sunny day to go cliff jumping at Horseshoe Lake south of Jasper. That was until they saw a 27-year-old Edmonton man land awkwardly in the water after jumping off of a 65-foot cliff. An ominous sign. ...

• Abandoned kittens tell a heartbreaking story

  July 30, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  A local vet clinic is pleading with cat owners to neuter or spay their pets after two six-week old seal-point Siamese kittens were dumped at the Jasper Veterinary Clinic on Friday, July 17. ...

• Lost falcon rides rails to Jasper

  July 30, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  In a bizarre turn of events, a baby peregrine falcon apparently travelled from Edmonton to Jasper by train. On June 30, the young female bird of prey was banded with a ribbon on its leg, along with its siblings, at the age of about 25 days old by an Albe...

• Four rescues in a week

  July 23, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  Despite an unusually slow start to the season, Jasper’s search and rescue teams have had a busy week with four rescues in the last seven days. ...

• Biker found after nine hour search

  July 23, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  After a nine-hour search and rescue mission, a 33-year-old man from the Hinton area was found safe on Tuesday afternoon near Fiddle Pass. ...

• Terry Fox run in jeopardy

  July 23, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  For the first time in 23 years, the Jasper Terry Fox Run is in jeopardy. With no organizers stepping up from the community, the annual cancer research fundraiser run that has raised more than $450 million to date across the country in hundreds of communi...

• Underpass a go

  July 23, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  After much debate, Jasper is getting its pedestrian underpass. Council voted 5-1 to award the $2.7 million project to Jasper Construction, ending a contentious debate about the need for a pedestrian underpath beneath the railway crossing on Hazel St. ...

• Construction woes continue to grow

  July 16, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Tenders for the provincial building project have come in nearly 20 per cent over budget, forcing the municipality to re-examine its six-year capital budget yet again. ...

• Climbing wall proposal squashed

  July 16, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Squash players should not lose one of their two courts in the renovations to the Jasper Activity Centre, according to the Town's culture and recreation committee. ...

• Small-town cyclist making it big

  July 16, 2009 - Author: MATTHEW TIMMINS, PHOTOJOURNALIST

  On his 16th birthday, against his Mom's will, Brandon Indic went to Panorama to race in a downhill bike race. He won the race by ten seconds. It was the first of six races he did last year, and finishing as the fastest rider in Alberta, the Jasper-born te...

• Jasper's modest man of steel

  July 16, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  Local athlete to compete in 24 Hours of Adrenalin followed by the Death Race Growing up in a town surrounded by trails and mountains, it's no wonder Dave MacDowell thinks riding non-stop for 24 hours sounds like a good way to pass the time. ...

• Underpass tenders over budget

  July 16, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Tenders for Jasper’s pedestrian underpass have come in 18 per cent over budget, however the town is investigating purchasing insurance to calm nervous developers. ...

• Canada Day holiday kick-starts tourism

  July 09, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  A last-minute season bodes well Starting with pancakes and ending with fireworks, Jasper’s Canada Day celebrations were an overwhelming success that helped usher in some extra business to kick-start the summer season for Jasper with last minute booking...

• Laying it on the line

  July 09, 2009 - Author: JUSTIN BRISBANE, EDITOR

  Council denies large encroachment request Concerned that allowing a 400 square foot encroachment would set a bad precedent for the town, Jasper councillors rejected an encroachment agreement proposed in the trailer park at the June 7 council meeting. ...

• Reality check for Jasper

  July 02, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  Despite all the attention that Patricia Street vandalism receives the survey conducted for the Jasper social norms marketing campaign demonstrates that, from 400 people, 90 per cent have never vandalized or damaged property within the last 30 days and 88 ...

• Father remains hopeful of son’s return

  July 02, 2009 - Author: AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN, REPORTER

  Family prays Moldowan is still alive Around 4:00 p.m. on Sat June 13, Devon Brock Moldowan left his apartment in Jasper, wandered out into the afternoon sunshine and has not been in contact with his friends or family since - a fact that his father, Larry...

• Last dance with mary jane

  July 02, 2009 - Author: DANIEL Z. JACOBS

  Gangs likely behind local drug bust Almost everyone across the globe has heard of - even in passing - the high quality marijuana from British Columbia, commonly known as B.C. Bud. ...