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Man takes the fall for break-in
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on January 12th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 20-year-old man arrested following a break-in to a city business earlier in the week was in the wrong place at the wrong time, a judge was told Thursday. At about 3:30 a.m. police responded to an alarm at Showcase Comics and Hobbies on 3 Avenue South and found a smashed window. No ... Read More »
2 responsesHistorian speaks to SACPA about new book
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on January 12th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com More than 50 residents braved the freezing weather and icy roads to attend Thursday’s Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs session where president of the Lethbridge Historical Society Belinda Crowson spoke about their latest publication “Upon Further Reflection.” Before her presentation Crowson spoke to the Herald about her topic and said she would ... Read More »
1 responseTask force hears from company about data analysis
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on January 12th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com With businessman Hunter Heggie chairing, the new Downtown Lawlessness Reduction Task Force got down to business on Thursday with a meeting at City Hall. The task force is a sub committee of the Safety and Social Standing Policy Committee which reports to city council. The public meeting at 7:30 a.m. in council chamber ... Read More »
7 responsesCity implements extreme weather protocols
By Lethbridge Herald on January 12th, 2024
The City of Lethbridge on Thursday activated its extreme weather response protocols to provide people without shelter a safe and warm space. The City has designated several facilities as comfort centres to provide shelter from this week’s extreme temperatures. They include: Public Library Main branch • Mon – Tues. 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. • ... Read More »
1 responseMan gets jail time for assault and resisting arrest
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on January 12th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 28-year-old Lethbridge man has been sentenced to a couple of months in jail for assaulting a woman and struggling with the police who arrested him. On Jan. 6 police received a call about a disturbance at the Southern Alcare Manor, a residential treatment facility in the 500 block of 7 Street South. ... Read More »
2 responsesMan gets jail for assault, breaching sentence order
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on January 12th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Andrew Albert Watson was already serving a 15-month conditional sentence when he was arrested and charged last month for assaulting a woman. Watson received the conditional sentence – which allows an offender to serve custody in the community, typically under house arrest and/or curfew – for charges of drug trafficking and possession of ... Read More »
1 responseDeep freeze weather helps to open downtown rink soon
By Lethbridge Herald on January 11th, 2024
Al Beeber – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com With unseasonably warm weather making it unrealistic, a decision was made earlier this week to abandon plans to set up an outdoor skating rink in Festival Square downtown. Until that weather changed and the temperatures began plummeting. And now that rink will soon be open for the public after it ... Read More »
1 responseSCAN shuts down house on city’s northside
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on January 11th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge-based Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods unit of the Alberta Sheriffs has shut down a property on the northside where drug activity and violence prompted numerous visits from police. SCAN obtained a court order against the owner of 1607 3 Ave. N. that gives investigators the authority to close the property for 90 ... Read More »
3 responsesBike lanes raise ire of downtown businesses
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on January 11th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com When the snow hit and temperatures plummeted on Wednesday morning, downtown business owner John Pyska spent part of it clearing with a shovel the new bicycle lane that runs past his book store on 7 St. S. Pyska and a staff member of an adjacent store were cleaning the lane in front of ... Read More »
2 responsesMADD wraps up annual Project Red Ribbon campaign
By Theodora MacLeod - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on January 11th, 2024
With another holiday season in the books, so too has MADD’s (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) annual Project Red Ribbon come to a close. Marking the end of the organization’s largest and longest running campaign, representatives from MADD, along with members of the Lethbridge Police Service (LPS), Alberta Sheriffs, and other law enforcement gathered at Cornerstone ... Read More »
1 responseWoman gets probation after guilty plea
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on January 11th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A southern Alberta woman avoided fines, but not jail after she pleaded guilty this week in Lethbridge court of justice to several criminal offences. Tiffany Erin Genereaux, 30, pleaded guilty to break and enter and assault, for which she was sentenced to 15 days in jail on each charge. The Crown had recommended ... Read More »
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