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Eco-activist filmmaker in town to discuss documentary Filmmaker ML Lincoln will be on hand at the Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives to discuss her documentary Wrenched, June 26.

Dear Editor, My heart sank into deep sadness when I learned that Dr. John Wilmshurst had been fired as the Head of Resource Conservation in Jasper National Park.

P. Clarke photo The summer season has hardly begun and already Jasper’s roads have claimed a life. The collision, between a motorcycle and a truck, took place on Miette Road, June 22, and resulted in the tragic death of a 28-year-old motorcyclist.

Submitted photo When the snow disappears, the garbage appears. On June 15, a crew of Marmot Basin staff hit the slopes, picking up a season’s worth of trash left behind by visitors to the ski hill.

Screen capture from Jasper Market, a new website for classified ads. A new website launched this week is expected to shake things up in the world of online classified ads. Jaspermarket.

2014 Jasper Folk Music Festival. | N. Veerman photo Following hours of discussion and debate, council will not be sponsoring the Jasper Folk Music Festival. A $3,000 sponsorship was suggested by Coun.

P. Clarke photo The municipality has delayed rehabilitation of Centennial Field until 2017, pushing the project back a year to allow for the completion of the exchange lands, which will act as a replacement field in the interim.

P. Clarke photo First responders were kept unusually busy responding to three serious car accidents over a span of 12 hours June 22. The first accident involved a tractor-trailer roll over about 10 km west of the Jasper townsite around 5:10 a.m.