In a move that the Société de Transport de Laval is taking well ahead of virtually every other public transit agency in Quebec, the STL has acquired its first fully electric bus, to be tested before a decision is made whether to purchase an entire fleet of all-electric buses.

The council of commissioners at the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board has decided with near unanimity minus one dissenting vote to re-zone two blocks of territory from Terry Fox Elementary School in Auteuil onto the nearby St. Paul Elementary School territory in order to resolve an overcrowding crisis at Terry Fox.

Laval interim-mayor Alexandre Duplessis says he is pleased with the preliminary findings of an audit of the city’s contract-awarding system which was conducted by auditors appointed in December by the Quebec Municipal Affairs Ministry.

Laval’s largest hospital facility, Cité de la Santé, received its first visit from the province’s new health minister, Dr. Réjean Hébert, since the election last September which put the Parti Québécois in power in Quebec City.

Laval’s four Liberal MNAs say they remain committed to a $46 million pledge that the former Liberal government made towards the Place Bell amphitheatre project while they were still in power.

It’s been five years since the family of Dimitra Provias of Gibbon St. in Chomedey first reported to the Laval News that snow removal on their crescent by the City of Laval was so bad they were left with no choice but to purchase a plow for $4,000 and do the job themselves.