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T. Nichols photo Jasper’s high school football team celebrated a successful year, Nov. 26, at the team’s annual end of year banquet, held at the Marmot Lodge.

D. Osborne photo The brand new joint school facility was on lockdown Nov. 21. Fortunately, it was just a drill.

Parks Canada photo The sun is once again beaming down on Jasper National Park after 48 hours of heavy snowfall last week.

Creative Commons photo December is Impaired Driving Awareness Month, and the Jasper RCMP is stepping up enforcement to try to crack down on what remains one of the most serious road safety concerns in Canada.

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N. Veerman photo Brand new curlers—folks who had never before held a broom on the ice—took to the curling rink the last two Wednesdays to try their hand at one of Canada’s winter pastimes.

N. Veerman photo Last weekend, the Jasper Bantam Bearcats played a pair of games against wildly differing opponents.

Wallace snags medal in the jungle Jasper’s intrepid mountain biker, Cory Wallace, had yet another podium finish Nov.

Dear Editor, Re: Backcountry users not the demons they’re painted to be, Nov. 20, 2014 Ms.Klettl, thou dost protest too much, me thinks. Fact is: as described, you do live here, and your backcountry use is, indeed, recreational, ie. play.

Dear Editor, As I attended the Parks Canada Annual Review Open House some weeks ago, it came “officially” to my attention that Parks is looking at an “in-house” proposal to develop an RV group campground alongside the riverbank out by the Jasper airf