I’m disappointed that so few people have asked me how they should vote in next week’s referendum. (So far, absolutely nobody, but there's still time!) But I didn’t get where I am today by letting the complete indifference of the public at large prevent me from foisting my opinions willy-nilly on an unsuspecting readership, so here I go.
The co-chairs of the fundraising committee which resulted in the creation of Drayton Valley’s skatepark a decade ago, have concerns with recent policy changes for the Town.
There’s something weird about picking mid-October – the point in the calendar where things are about to go completely in the crapper for the next six months – as a time to give thanks.
Next January, world-class curlers from across the province will be coming to Drayton Valley for the 2027 RME Summit of Champions to try to qualify for the Brier and Scotties.
“To everything there is a season," wrote King Solomon in his bestselling book, Ecclesiastes. Sadly, the best two seasons of 2026 are now behind us, and they’ve taken a lot of the good stuff with them.
An initiative to bring a sports dome to Drayton Valley took a step forward last week with a funding announcement from the province.
The return of the Drayton Valley Wildcats after a lengthy hiatus has got me thinking about other fixtures of life in the 1990s that I’d like to see make a comeback. Here’s a quick rundown in no particular order.
This week Weyerhaeuser announced that they will be investing a total of $1,000,000 into Drayton Valley, Alberta over the next several years.
Last Friday, the community celebrated the grand opening of the Northern Lakes College mobile trade unit, a milestone that has been in the works for a decade.
Life moves pretty fast. Later this week it will be 25 years to the day since I was woken up by a phone call from a friend telling me to turn on the television because “they are crashing planes into the World Trade Centre.”