Hay River Hub

Hay River’s Jane Groenewegen, the only independent candidate on the ballot conceded defeat to Liberal incumbent MP Michael McLeod after coming in fourth place out of the five candidates.

A Chevrolet Tracker was still flipped on its back as of Sept. 19 following a single-motor vehicle accident on Mackenzie Highway last week.

The Town of Hay River joined hundreds of communities across the country to mark the annual Terry Fox Run on Sept. 19.

Some Diamond Jenness Secondary School students and employees are now self-isolating and contact tracing is taking place within the Town of Hay River after a positive case of COVID-19 was confirmed.

Voting day is next Monday and with an endless list of needs in the North, residents could be forgiven for sleepwalking to the voter booth and marking an X beside a candidate and party they dislike the least.

A planned event to mark the resurgence of Hay River as the hub of the North has been postponed, NNSL Media learned this week.

Several campaign-style signs put up over the last week within the Town of Hay River opposing vaccine mandates and passports and promoting an organization called Canadian Peoples Union appeared to have been removed by the weekend.

The 41st Terry Fox Run is just around the corner and organizers are hoping to repeat a strong pandemic year last year with a healthy amount of money raised for cancer research.