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Many Mountain View County (MVC) residents are increasingly frustrated with criminals targeting farms, ranches, private homes and businesses in the region, says Reeve Bruce Beattie. Speaking following a special council meeting on Feb.

CREMONA – The Cremona village council has rescinded 12 policies that were no longer pertinent to the village. The move came during council's recent regularly scheduled meeting.

DIDSBURY – A Didsbury-area resident who received national attention last year after being dismissed from Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. for posting revealing social media photos and other violations is competing for Miss Canada.

Mountain View County (MVC) Deputy Reeve Angela Aalbers has been appointed as the county's representative on the Sundre Forest Products Public Involvement Round Table (SPIRT) advisory group.

About 140 residents attended a town hall meeting at the Eagle Hill Memorial Community Centre on Feb. 20 to voice concerns about rural crime and to seek solutions.

When dinosaurs still roamed the earth and I was a young reporter, I covered criminal trials in which convicted people were sent to prison for possessing marijuana.

Red Deer RCMP are asking for public help in finding a missing 31-year-old woman that police believe may be in the Didsbury area. Sarah Dumont was last seen in Red Deer on Dec. 10.

They say good things come in threes. For the Rasmussen family, good things arrived in the way of Charolais triplets. Their 13-year-old Charolais dam Raindrop gave birth to two males and one female at midnight on Jan.

About 70 area residents attended a one-day workshop on the challenges facing landowners and other property owners when dealing with predators such as bears, cougars, wolves and coyotes. Held at the Gold and Silver Centre in Cremona on Feb.

Mountain View County council has given first reading to mandatory land use bylaw amendments related to development permits, changes that are required under the updated Municipal Government Act (MGA).