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Recently, Jasper artist Libby Weir did an artist in residency project with students from the Jasper Junior/Senior High School, and the resulting clay tiles will be used to create a mural in the new school, which is set to open next September.

M. Figueira photo “Jasper is a community first and destination second.

N. Veerman photo Under the heat of a warm spring sun, Jasper played host to soccer teams from around the region last weekend, welcoming Hinton, Whitecourt and Edson to town.

D. Turcot photo It looks like a bomb went off in my garage: slalom skis over there, GS skis over here, a stack of various ski poles in the corner, some broken, some usable but all battle-scared from contact with gates.

It’s no secret that Jasper’s caribou are in dire straits.

Manslaughter conviction in Jasper homicide After two years in the court system, Jasper’s first homicide in decades reached a resolution last week, when Cody Kyle Jensen was convicted of manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of Kenzie Beaton.

N. Veerman photo Following a productive work bee, May 10, members of the Jasper Local Food Society planted an apple tree in the Connaught Drive community garden in memory of one of the society’s founding members.

N. Veerman photo The library and cultural centre’s uneven floors are holding up progress on the already overdue construction project.

The moratorium on the food service industry’s access to temporary foreign workers is already impacting Jasper. However, that impact has the potential to increase significantly if the federal government can’t come to a quick resolution.

Photo courtesy of Loni Klettl Now that Marmot Basin’s 50th year of operation is complete and the parking lot mud has dried like cement in your boots and tire wells, it’s time to turn your gaze over to another mountain—the mountain known as Whistlers,