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DIDSBURY -- After several months of discussion and debate, the Town of Didsbury's 2019 operating budget was passed at the regular meeting on March 12.

For the second straight year, a 250-student classroom addition to Carstairs Elementary School is the top priority infrastructure project in Chinook’s Edge School Division, say officials.

Work on the draft 2019 Mountain View County operating budget is continuing this week after councillors reviewed the latest version of the document at the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

The following are the results from the annual Mountain View Science and Technology Science Fair held at Olds High School on March 2.

Shovels will soon be in the ground on the east side of Innisfail for the construction of a multi-million-dollar state-of-the-art corporate headquarters for EQUS. EQUS serves rural customers across the region, including in Mountain View County.

Mountain View County council has passed final reading of an amending bylaw regarding the re-designation of land to allow for the development of an event centre facility in the Rosebud rural community between Olds and Didsbury.

The Cremona Arena was filled to capacity on Saturday for the second annual fundraising hockey event. Held to support planned renovations to the arena, more than $10,000 was brought in this year, say officials.

Oil and gas companies owe rural municipalities more than $80 million in unpaid taxes in 2019, leaving rural taxpayers to take up the slack, according to a new survey by the Rural Municipalities of Alberta Association (RMA).

DIDSBURY -- After suffering a career ending hockey injury, Didsbury's Josie Hadway didn't know where to turn. The 19-year-old suffered through anxiety and depression when she realized that college hockey would no longer be part of her life.

CARSTAIRS -- A project that will see the water line twinned from Anthony Henday Water Treatment Plant northwest of Innisfail right down the 2A corridor to Crossfield is close to being on schedule and on budget, according to officials.