Bonnyville News

After three years wearing the Pontiac jersey, Ryan Symington will be sporting some different colours.

For years, music has been the heart and soul of Walter Boldt. After 42 years of teaching, Boldt is trading in his conductor's baton and retiring.

Residents know it as the community store, but what is left of the Ardmore M&M Mini Mart is shaken staff and plywood walls. On June 13, owners Wade and Liz Magistad woke to a phone call they hoped they would never receive.

It takes a true hero to be a firefighter, but it takes an even greater hero to continue to be one while battling cancer. One of those heroes stands among the Iron River Fire Department.

It's time for Alberta to start taking Lyme Disease seriously. Local woman Deanna Lonsberry is living proof of that fact, she knows all too well the disease is closer to home than people think.

Every morning for the past seven weeks, Carla Green has walked down stairs to turn on the pump that has been draining 50 gallons of water each day out of her basement.

The Beaver River was a sea of yellow as thousands of rubber ducks raced their way to the finish line. It was the 26th annual Ardmore Duck Race on Sunday, June 4, and 2,000 little yellow ducks showed up to do their part for Ardmore School.

The students of today are solving the problems of tomorrow. Grade 7 students at H.E. Bourgoin Middle School have made it to the top 150 in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge.

Bonnyville RCMP are searching for the suspect of an attempted child abduction in Fort Kent. On May 31, at around 6 p.m., a group of young children were playing on 49 Street in Fort Kent when they were approached by the suspect.

Bonnyville's least favourite creepy crawlers are back and in bigger numbers. Tent caterpillars have made their way back to the area, for what officials hope is the last time.