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The Jasper Park Chamber of Commerce handed out eight awards at its annual Business and Ambassador Awards Gala held at the Lobstick Lodge Oct. 18. This was the third year for the ambassador awards and fourth for the business awards.

Parks Canada photo Over the past two months, there’s been a lot of student sweat going into Jasper National Park.

Jian Ghomeshi’s top five In WestJet’s Up! magazine, CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi highlighted the Jasper Legion in his top five venues to see a concert. The Legion appears alongside the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, Calif.

Due to the Fitzhugh's print deadlines, we were unable to address this issue in our Oct. 17 edition of the paper. In our effort to provide the community with the best possible coverage ahead of the Oct.

Students of Jasper Junior/Senior High School put candidates for mayor, council and school trustee on the spot, Oct. 17, in their very own all candidates forum.

Human resource managers from around the region gathered in Hinton last week to gauge how recent changes to the temporary foreign worker program will affect their businesses.

Creative Commons photo Despite what seemed like an unwieldy number of candidates, the Oct. 9 all candidates forum gave each prospective mayor and councillor a chance to share their platform and answer at least one question from the crowd.

Printed here are the final questions the Fitzhugh posed to the 23 candidates running for mayor and council in the Oct. 21 municipal election.

T. Nichols photo Deputy Fire Chief Don Smith visited the Jasper Elementary School Oct. 8 as part of a week-long series of visits to talk to kids about fire prevention.

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.