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T. Nichols photo The Jasper Glaciers were victorious again, in no small part due to a very tight defense that not only stopped Edson’s Holy Redeemer Rebels twice inside the 10 yard line, but created four turnovers and scored a defensive touchdown.

Parks Canada unveiled the details of two new areas it plans to develop as skiing destinations to offset the delayed winter opening of large areas of the park, at a public meeting Oct. 10.

K. Gedling photo From 1908 to the early 1920s, an industrial town in the east end of Jasper National Park housed the workers and families of those who supplied coal for the competing railways that ran through the park.

Get out and vote The municipal election is Monday, Oct. 21. Polls will be open at the Jasper Activity Centre from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. In order to vote, you need to present at least one piece of approved identification.

Submitted Photo If you think a little whiplash from too much head banging is going to stop The Mahones, think again. In fact, according to lead singer Finny McConnell, pretty much the whole band is busted up from some on-stage injury.

Campfires are old hat for Jasper. Some folks here can even spark a flame by striking flint onto tinder. On a bigger scale, Parks conducts controlled burns on wide swaths of land. But fire is a dangerous element.

Star Correspondents Sara Hamil (left) and Candice MacAulay (right).Submitted photo Oct. 7, as Sara Hamil refreshed her email for nearly the hundredth time, a message popped into her inbox.

Submitted photo This November, every soldier laid to rest in the Jasper Cemetery will receive a poppy from a junior high student, as a gesture of remembrance and thanks. The initiative is called No Stone Left Alone.

submitted photo JW Jones might never have become a blues musician. The Ottawa native started his musical career as a drummer, and if it wasn’t for a B. B.

submitted photo What’s so interesting about the fossilized remains of a sea creature the size of a thumbnail, that died hundreds of millions of years ago? According to Dr. Javier Ortega-Hernández, a whole lot.